Name Sigvard Bernadotte Role Industrial designer | ||
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Born 7 June 1907Stockholm, Sweden ( 1907-06-07 ) Issue Count Michael Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg Father Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden Spouse Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg (m. 1961–2002), Sonja Christensen (m. 1943), Erica Patzek (m. 1934) Siblings Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten Parents Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Princess Margaret of Connaught Similar People Countess Marianne Bernadott, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Count Carl Johan Bernadott, Prince Gustaf Adolf - Du, Prince Bertil - Duke of Halland | ||
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Sigvard Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (7 June 1907 – 4 February 2002) was a Swedish prince and industrial designer.
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He was the second son of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Margaret, Duchess of Scania, a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria. He was born a Swedish prince and was originally titled Duke of Uppland, but was no longer authorized to use his royal titles from 1934 when he married a commoner. He was a paternal uncle of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and a maternal uncle of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.
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Professional life
An industrial designer, Bernadotte was known for designing everything from luxurious silver objects for Georg Jensen to everyday-use household items in plastic.
Among his iconic designs were the Red Clara opener; EKA Swede 38 folding knife; the Margrethe bowl; the Bernadotte jug, and the Facit Private typewriter. He also designed glasses frames.
He served as a technical advisor on the 1937 film The Prisoner of Zenda.
He appeared briefly in the 1968 Italian mondo film Sweden: Heaven and Hell. His work in industrial design at Bernadotte Design AB is featured, along with select items from his portfolio.
Title
Bernadotte was born Prince of Sweden and Duke of Uppland, but having made an unequal match was disqualified from the line of succession. He was also forbidden to use his birth titles and left to be called Mr. Bernadotte. His cousin Lennart Bernadotte, who two years earlier had experienced the same thing (as the first Swede in history), considered himself, and even more so Sigvard, subjected to very cruel treatment for several decades by the Royal Court of Sweden due to their marriages.
On 2 July 1951, for himself, his wife and his marital descendants, Bernadotte was admitted by Grand Duchess Charlotte (head of state at the time) into the nobility of Luxembourg with the title Count of Wisborg. and in that conferral was also called Sigvard Oscar Frederik Prince Bernadotte.
After more than 30 years of argument and controversy in Sweden over his rank and titles, problems which worsened when his father died in 1973, and fed up after having been demonstratively snubbed by the Royal Court of Sweden during a state visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1983, Bernadotte announced to Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå on 28 May of that year that he was to be known as Prince Sigvard Bernadotte from then on.
Over the years since then, based on precedent established in 1888 for his granduncle Oscar, and citing Oscar's title of nobility as it was confirmed by the Government of Luxembourg in 1892, Bernadotte was supported by several legal experts when he petitioned for acknowledgement in Sweden of the Prince Bernadotte title as his also, although he did not seek reinstatement in the line of succession to the throne as a royal prince of that country. King Carl XVI Gustaf has been criticized for never obliging and for his consequent estrangement from his uncle.
Bernadotte went to the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to have the Government of Sweden acknowledge his princely title there, but in 2004, after his death, the ECHR declared the application inadmissible.
The wording on his gravestone, in a cemetery owned by the King, does make it clear that Bernadotte was "born Prince of Sweden".
From 1994 to 2002, he was the oldest living great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and having reached the age of 94, he was her longest-lived male descendant until being overtaken by his younger brother Carl Johan on 29 June 2011.
Marriages
He married Erika Patzek on 8 March 1934 and they were divorced on 14 October 1943.
He remarried Sonia de Robbert on 26 October 1943 and they were divorced on 6 June 1961. They have one son: Michael (b. 21 August 1944) who married Christine Wellhofer on 6 February 1976 and they have one daughter and one granddaughter.
He married lastly Marianne Lindberg Tchang on 30 July 1961.