Countess Gunnila Bernadotte | |||||
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Countess of Wisborg | |||||
Countess Gunnila at the Wedding of her grandniece Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill in 2013
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Born | Gunnila Wachtmeister af Johannishus 12 May 1923 , Sweden |
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Died | 12 September 2016 Båstad, Båstad Municipality, Scania, Sweden |
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Burial | 29 September 2016 Royal Cemetery, Solna, Sweden |
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Spouse |
Carl-Herman Bussler (m. 1942; d. 1981) Prince Carl Johan Bernadotte (m. 1988; d. 2012) |
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Issue | Louise Bussler Catharina Bussler Madeleine Bussler Carl-Fredrik Bussler |
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Father | Count Nils Wachtmeister af Johannishus | ||||
Mother | Märta De Geer af Leufsta |
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Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte |
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.
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. Via her marriage to Bernadotte she became nobility in Luxemburg.
In 2010, Bernadotte gifted her with the house in Båstad, built many years earlier for himself and his first wife, Kerstin Wijkmark. He died in 2012.