Figure 1.--This is a photograph identified as Count Carl Bernadotte of Wisborg with children. We are not sure who the children. The Count and his wife adopted two children a girl and boy in New York. Here we have three children abd they seem to be in Sweden. The photograph is undated, but looks like the 1950s to us. < The boy loks to be tge rightbagevfor his adootd son, but the girls are too old. /i>

Carl Johan Arthur Bernadotte was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife Princess Margaret of Connaught. He was born a Prince of Sweden (1916). He was granted the title of Duke of Dalarna, but renounced these titles to marry a commoner. Hehad extebsive royal realtions. 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. Carl became Count of Wisborg on the death of his older brother. As a result of his marriage, Bernadotte lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles (1946). He married the journalist Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark (1910 – 87). She was the daughter of Henning Wijkmark and Elin Larsson. They married in New York City. The mrraige was unconstitutional as Wijkmark was 'enskild mans dotter' (daughter of a common man). So it could not be approved by the Swedish government. Thus he was giving up his Swedish titles and succession rights. He subsequently assumed the surname Bernadotte, the name of the Swedish Royal Family. They did not have children of their own, but adopted two children. Monica Kristina Margaretha Bernadotte (1948-- ) was adopted (1951). She married Count Johan Peder Bonde of Björnö (1950- ) in (1976). The couple divorced (1997). They had three children. Christian Carl Henning Bernadotte (1949- ) was adopted in (1950). She married Marianne Jenny (1958- ) in (1980). She was the daughter of Jacques Jenny and wife Caroline Yvonne Venter. They had three children. Grand Duchess Charlotte admitted Bernadotte into the Luxembourgois nobility (1951) for himself, his wife and his marital descendants,with the title Count of Wisborg. Hrv was also made Carl Johan Arthur Prince Bernadotte. The Bernadottes lived for several years in New York City. He worked as the representative of the Anglo-Nordic Trading Company. They notavly made friends with famed film star Greta Garbo, who stayed with them in their Swedish home near Båstad. After the death of his first wife, Bernadotte married Countess Gunnila Märtha Louise (Wachtmeister af Johannishus) Bussler (1923 – 2016) in Copenhagen (1988). He became the stepfather of her three children from her previous marriage.

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