Gunnila Bernadotte

Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (12 May 1923 – 12 September 2016) was a Swedish Countess by birth.

Gunnila Bernadotte
Countess of Wisborg
Countess Gunnila at the Wedding of her grandniece Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill in 2013
Born	Gunnila Wachtmeister af Johannishus (1923-05-12)12 May 1923 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	12 September 2016(2016-09-12) (aged 93) Båstad, Båstad Municipality, Scania, Sweden
Burial	29 September 2016 Royal Cemetery, Solna, Sweden
Spouse	Carl-Herman Bussler ​ ( m. 1942; died 1981) Prince Carl Johan Bernadotte ​ ( m. 1988; died 2012)
Issue	Louise Bussler Catharina Bussler Madeleine Bussler Carl-Fredrik Bussler
Full name Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte
Father	Count Nils Wachtmeister af Johannishus
Mother	Märta De Geer af Leufsta

Early life

The daughter of Count Nils Claes Ludvig Wachtmeister af Johannishus (1891–1960) and Baroness Märta Ebba Carolina de Geer af Leufsta (1896-1976).

First marriage

She was first married in 1942 to Carl-Herman Albert Gerhard Bussler (1918-1981), son of Karl-Gerhard Bussler and Countess Catharina Stenbock. The couple had four children together:[1][2]

• Louise (1943–1986)
• Catharina (1946–1946)
• Madeleine (b. 1948)
• Fred (b. 1951)

Second marriage

Following his death, on 29 September 1988, in Copenhagen she became the second wife of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, a widower and the youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf and Princess Margaret of Connaught.[3][4][5] Via her marriage to Bernadotte she became nobility in Luxembourg and was addressed there as Princess Bernadotte and Countess of Wisborg due to title granted to her husband by Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.[6]

In 2010, Bernadotte gifted her with the house in Båstad, built many years earlier for himself and his first wife, Kerstin Wijkmark.[7] He died in 2012.[3][8]

Ancestors of Gunnila Bernadotte

8. Count Claes Adam Wachtmeister 4. Count Fredrik Wachtmeister 9. Countess Amalia Regina Wrangel av Sauss 2. Count Nils Wachtmeister 10. Count Carl Fredrik Ludvig af Ugglas 5. Countess Louise af Ugglas 11. Countess Lotten von Düben 1. Gunnila Bernadotte 12. Countess Louise De Geer af Leusta 6. Count Louise De Geer af Leusta 13. Countess Vendla Mariana Johanna Sofia von Wright 3. Countess Märta De Geer af Leufsta 14. Count Claes Edvard Cederström 7. Countess Märtha Cederström 15. Countess Märta Leijonhufvud

References

1. "Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit – blev 93 år". Expressen (in Swedish). 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
2. Åsa Bönnelyche (12 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
3. Anna Sköld and Agneta Nisbeth (6 May 2012). "Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
4. Hanna Olsson (13 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
5. Ella Kay (13 September 2016). "In Memoriam: Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg". The Court Jeweller. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
6. von Rothstein, Niclas, ed. (2009). Kalender över Ointroducerad adels förening (in Swedish) (22nd ed.). Ointroducerad Adels Förening. p. 22. ISBN 9789163350382.
7. Kenny Lindquist (11 June 2010). "Carl Johan Bernadotte skänker sin villa till frun". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
8. "Suru-uutinen Ruotsin hovissa – rakastettu kreivitär kuoli" (in Finnish). Finland: MTV. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

External links

• Media related to Gunnila Bernadotte at Wikimedia Commons