Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg has died at the age of 100

Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg has died at the age of 100. She died yesterday in a nursing home in Stockholm.

Her daughter told TT, “It was calm and peaceful, she was surrounded by her closest relatives and fell asleep at the nursing home on Gärdet in Stockholm. She was over 100 years old, with only two months to her 101st birthday.”

Countess Marianne was the wife of the late Count Sigvard Bernadotte. He was born as Prince Sigvard, the second son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and Margaret of Connaught. Sigvard, who died in 2002, was an uncle of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Marianne was born on 15 July 1924 in Helsingborg in Skåne. She married Gabriel Tchang in 1947 and had three children before divorcing in 1957. Prince Sigvard lost his titles when he married Erica Maria Patzek in 1934. They were divorced in 1943 and he remarried that same year to Sonja Helene Robbert, with whom he had a son the following year. They were divorced in 1961.

In 1951, he received the title of Count of Wisborg from Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and he was called Prince Bernadotte. Sigvard married Marianne in 1961.