Gunnila Bernadotte

Countess Gunnila Bernadotte
Countess of Wisborg

Born Gunnila Wachtmeister af Johannishus
(1923-05-12)12 May 1923
Stockholm, Sweden
Died 12 September 2016(2016-09-12) (aged 93)
Båstad, Båstad Municipality, Scania, Sweden
Burial 29 September 2016
Royal Cemetery, Solna, Sweden
Spouse Carl-Herman Bussler
(m. 1942 - 1981; his death)
Prince Carl Johan Bernadotte
(m. 1988 - 2012; his death)
Issue Louise Bussler
Catharina Bussler
Madeleine Bussler
Carl-Fredrik Bussler
Full name
Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte
Father Count Nils Wachtmeister af Johannishus
Mother Märta De Geer af Leufsta

Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (12 May 1923 – 12 September 2016) was a Swedish countess.

The daughter of Nils Wachtmeister af Johannishus, she was first married to Carl-Herman Bussler in 1942; the couple had three children together.[1][2]

Following his death, on 29 September 1988 in Copenhagen she became the second wife of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte, a widower and the youngest son of Gustaf VI Adolf.[3][4][5] Via her marriage to Bernadotte she became nobility in Luxemburg.[6]

In 2010, Bernadotte gifted her with the house in Båstad, built many years earlier for himself and his first wife, Kerstin Wijkmark.[7] He died in 2012.[3][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit – blev 93 år". Expressen (in Swedish). 13 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Åsa Bönnelyche (12 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish).
  3. 1 2 Anna Sköld and Agneta Nisbeth (6 May 2012). "Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish).
  4. ↑ Hanna Olsson (13 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Aftonbladet (in Swedish).
  5. ↑ Ella Kay (13 September 2016). "In Memoriam: Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg". The Court Jeweller.
  6. ↑ von Rothstein, Niclas, ed. (2009). Kalender över Ointroducerad adels förening (in Swedish) (22nd ed.). Ointroducerad Adels Förening. p. 22. ISBN 9789163350382.
  7. ↑ Kenny Lindquist (11 June 2010). "Carl Johan Bernadotte skänker sin villa till frun". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish).
  8. ↑ "Suru-uutinen Ruotsin hovissa – rakastettu kreivitär kuoli" (in Finnish). Finland: MTV. 13 September 2016.
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