Lennart Bernadotte

Gustaf Lennart Nikolaus Paul Bernadotte Prince de Suède (born the May 8th 1909 with Stockholm - died the December 21st 2004 on the island of Mainau), duke of Småland and count de Wisborg.

Single child of Wilhelm of Sweden, duke of Södermanland, and the large-duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia. The February 20th 1932, it marries in first weddings Karin Nissvandt (1911-1991). They divorce the January 27th 1971. Lennart remarie then with Sonia Haunz (born the May 7th 1944) the April 29th 1972.

As of 1913, Lennart Bernadotte was given up by his/her mother, the large-duchess Maria Pavlovna. It found it only when it arrived at the adulthood. It was raised by his grandmother, Victoria de Bade, wife of Gustave V of Sweden. The crown of Sweden made gift with Lennart Bernadotte of the castle of Mainau, in the island of the same name located on the Lac of Constancy. In this castle, Lennart Bernadotte made set up a vault where it made bury his mother at the sides of her maternal uncle, the large-duke Dimitri Pavlovitch.

Sources

Extracts from the Mémoires of exile of Frederic Mitterrand

Internal bonds

Gustave V of Sweden

Maria Pavlovna

Wilhelm of Sweden

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