Marriages
Sigvard married three times.
He first married on 8 March 1934 in London commoner Erica Maria Patzek (born in Wilmersdorf, 12 July 1911- died in Wilmersdorf, 20 July 2007), daughter of Anton Patzek and wife Marie Anna Lala. The couple had no children and divorced on 14 October 1943.
Only 12 days later on 26 October in Copenhagen he married another commoner, Sonja Christensen Robbert (born in Copenhagen, 12 October 1909; died 21 May 2004), daughter of Robert Alexander Christensen Robbert and wife Ebba Elisabeth Svenson.
They had one son: Count Michael Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg (b. Copenhagen, 21 August 1944), married Christine Vellhöjer or Wellhöfer (b. Stuttgart, 26 April 1947), one daughter.
Bernadotte and wife Sonja were divorced on 6 June 1961.
A month later, on 30 July 1961, Sigvard married in Stockholm Gullan Marie or Marianne Lindberg (b. Helsingborg, 15 July 1924), an actress, and the former Mrs. Gabriel Tchang (a son of a Chinese Minister in Stockholm by whom she had three children), she was the daughter of Helge Lindberg and wife Thyra Dahlman. On her marriage she became Countess Marianne Bernadotte af Wisborg.
Read more about this topic: Count Sigvard Bernadotte Of Wisborg
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