Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg

Marianne Lindberg
Countess Bernadotte of Wisborg
Spouse	Gabriel Tchang Sigvard Bernadotte (1961-2002)
Issue
Robert Gabriel Tchang (b.1948) Richard Antoine Tchang (1950-1952) Marie Gabrielle Tchang (b.1953)
Father	Helge Lindberg
Mother	Thyra Dahlman
Born	15 July 1924 (1924-07-15) (age 87)

Marianne Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (née Lindberg 15 July/25 July 1924 in Helsingborg, Sweden), is the widow of former Swedish Prince Sigvard (second son of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught). She is also called Gullan Marie and has acted as Marianne Lindberg.

A daughter of Helge Lindberg and wife Thyra Dahlman, she had two children in her first marriage to Gabriel Tchang, the son of a Chinese Minister in Stockholm.

Professional life

Bernadotte studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre Acting School Dramatens elevskola 1945-1948. After finishing her education, she was an actress as Marianne Lindberg at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm for eleven years.

In 1983 Marianne Bernadotte received a degree in the History of Art at the University of Stockholm. Her academic papers included work on the glass artist and sculptor Edvin Öhrström. Marianne Bernadotte has also been an international representative for Sotheby’s auction house.

Philanthropy

Bernadotte is Honorary Chairman of The Swedish Dylexia Foundation and Honorary President of The International Rodin Remediation Academy. On her initiative, The Sigvard and Marianne Bernadotte Research Foundation was set up in 1989 for juvenile eye care. She took a similar initiative in establishing an international foundation in New York,^[1] and at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, she created the Sigvard and Marianne Bernadotte Research Laboratories of Pediatric Ophthalmology. In 1998, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine by the that institute.

She also has an Honorary Doctorate from the Bologna University Institute of Psychology in recognition of her contribution to dyslexia research in 2006.

Marianne Bernadotte is a patron of the arts, for example through the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte Arts Fund which she created in 1982 to mark Sigvard Bernadotte’s seventy-fifth birthday. Grants are awarded annually to young scholars in music, theatre, design and art. Many young artists^{[citation needed]} with that opportunity to develop their talents at an early stage in their careers have later become very successful.

References

1. ^ http://www.bernadottefoundation.org/board.htm

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konst-form/konstnarsstipendier-delas-ut-av-bernadotte-1.892598

http://www.nt.se/arkiv/2004/07/15/Personligt/1918455/Marianne-Bernadotte-fyller-80-%E5r.aspx

http://www.webfinanser.com/nyheter/141258/kronprinsessan-victoria-hedrar-sin-gammelfaster-marianne-bernadotte/

http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/bildspecial/kunglig-glans_3089117.svd

External links

• Royal House of Sweden
• http://www.mariannebernadotte.org/ Marianne Bernadotte Official Website
• http://www.bernadottestiftelsen.se/
• http://www.bernadottefoundation.org/
• http://www.dyslexiforeningen.se/engelska.html
• http://brollop.menmo.se/TT/news.html?newsId=16230
• http://www.noblesseetroyautes.com/nr01/?p=35903
• http://www.purepeople.com/media/la-comtesse-marianne-bernadotte_m235405

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Name	Bernadotte Af Wisborg, Marianne
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Date of birth	15 July 1924
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