Princess Birgitta of Sweden

Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Birgitta Ingeborg Alice) (born January 19, 1937) is a sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She was born at Haga Palace in Sweden.

She is the second child of late Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten and late Princess Sibylla of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha and a granddaughter of late King Gustaf VI Adolf. Her sisters are Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler; Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld; and Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson.

As the (currently estranged) wife of HSH Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, she is the only one of the sisters to marry a man of princely status and thus retain the style of "Royal Highness".

On a visit in 1959 to friends and relatives in Germany, the princess met her future husband at a cocktail party. On 15 December 1960, her engagement to Johann Georg Carl Leopold Eitel-Friedrich Meinrad Maria Hubertus Michael, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 1932), was announced. The civil ceremony took place at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on 25 May 1961, and the religious in the Sankt Johann Church at the bridegroom's family palace Sigmaringen on July 31, 1961.

Prince Johann Georg and Princess Birgitta separated in 1990, though they remain legally married. She lives on the island Majorca in Spain, while her husband, known as "Hansi," lives in Munich and is the director of a museum.

Princess Birgitta performs a lot of assignments for golf and charity (not in Sweden), and is an Honorary Board Member of The Royal Swedish Golf Society [http://www.rsgs.info] (which she took over when her uncle Prince Bertil died). She has her own golf competition in Majorca, "The Princess Birgitta Trophy" at her home golf course. She participates in the celebrations of the Swedish Lucia every year, and also the party held at her golf club on Sweden’s National Day.

Princess Birgitta's marriage has produced three children:
*HSH Prince Carl Christian of Hohenzollern
*HSH Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern
*HSH Prince Hubertus of Hohenzollern

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Birgitta of Sweden
2= 2. Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
3= 3. Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
4= 4. Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
5= 5. Princess Margaret of Connaught
6= 6. Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
7= 7. Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein
8= 8. Gustav V of Sweden
9= 9. Victoria of Baden
10= 10. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
11= 11. Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
12= 12. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
13= 13. Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
14= 14. Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
15= 15. Princess Caroline of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
16= 16. Oscar II of Sweden
17= 17. Sofia of Nassau
18= 18. Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden
19= 19. Princess Louise of Prussia
20= 20. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
21= 21. Victoria of the United Kingdom
22= 22. Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
23= 23. Maria Anna of Anhalt
24= 24. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (= 20)
25= 25. Victoria of the United Kingdom (= 21)
26= 26. George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont
27= 27. Helene Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg
28= 28. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
29= 29. Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe
30= 30. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
31= 31. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

See also

*Swedish Royal Family