Princess Birgitta of Sweden, sister of King Carl Gustaf, died Wednesday in Mallorca, where she had been living since the 1990s, according to the Scandinavian country’s royal house.
The Swedish noblewoman was born on January 19, 1937 in Haga Castle, near Stockholm, and was the second daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sibylla, whose son, Carl Gustaf, is the current monarch. In a long biographical note on its website, the Royal House of Sweden highlights that “Princess Birgitta moved in the mid-1990s to Mallorca, where she was able to live close to nature, mountains and light“. It also highlights the social life of the Swedish king’s sister on the island, often linked to golf, a sport she was very fond of. She was married to the German nobleman Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who was director of the Bavarian state art collections in Munich. The couple had three children Carl Christian, Désirée and Hubertus.
