Princess Christina | |||||
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![]() Princess Christina prior to the wedding of her niece Madeleine in June 2013
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Born |
Haga Palace, Solna, Sweden |
3 August 1943 ||||
Spouse | Tord Magnuson (m. 1974) | ||||
Issue | Gustaf Magnuson Oscar Magnuson Victor Magnuson |
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House | Bernadotte | ||||
Father | Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten | ||||
Mother | Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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Christina Louise Helena |
Swedish Royal Family |
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Extended royal family
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Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
Marianne Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, LoK av KMO (Christina Louise Helena, born 3 August 1943) is the youngest of four older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. She does business as Christina Magnuson.
Princess Christina was born at Haga Palace outside as the fourth child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She is the granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. She was Chairman of the Swedish Red Cross for 9 years.
She met her future husband, Tord Magnuson, at a lunch in Stockholm in 1961. Her engagement to Magnuson was announced on 1 February 1974. The couple married on 15 June 1974 in the Palace Church of the Royal Palace of . Because of her unequal marriage, she lost her style of Royal Highness and from the king received the courtesy title of Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, a policy begun by the previous king when her older sisters Margaretha and Désirée were married before her. Under the Swedish constitution at that time, they, as women, and her descendants were not eligible to inherit the throne and are still not.