Ann-Mari Tengbom

Ann-Mari
Princess of Bismarck
The Princess of Bismarck on her wedding day in 1928.
Born(1907-07-26)26 July 1907
Stockholm, Sweden
Died22 September 1999(1999-09-22) (aged 92)
Marbella, Spain
Noble familyTengbom (by birth)
Bismarck (by marriage)
Spouse(s)Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck
IssueCountess Mari Ann von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Ferdinand, Prince of Bismarck
Count Maximilian von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Countess Gunilla von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Count Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen
FatherIvar Tengbom
Styles of
The Princess of Bismarck
Reference styleHer Serene Highness
Spoken styleYour Serene Highness

Ann-Mari, Princess of Bismarck (née Tengbom; 26 July 1907 – 22 September 1999) was a Swedish socialite and the wife of Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck.

Biography

Ann-Mari Tengbom was born on 26 July 1907 in Stockholm. She was the daughter of Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom and his first wife, Hjördis Nordin (1877-1969).[1] She attended school in Stockholm, where she was a classmate of Folk Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg.[2]

On 18 April 1928 she married German politician and diplomat Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck, Head of the House of Bismarck, in a Lutheran ceremony at the Berlin Cathedral. They had six children:[3]

  • Countess Mari Ann (1929–1981).
  • Ferdinand, Prince of Bismarck (1930–2019)
  • Count Carl Alexander (1935–1992).
  • Count Maximilian Viktor (born 1947).
  • Countess Gunilla Margaretha (born 1949).
  • Count Eduard Leopold (born 1951).

During the war, she and her husband moved into a villa in Rome, where she was known to have thrown parties for members of Italian and German high society.[4] While her husband was a diplomat in Rome, the Princess told Filippo Anfuso, head of the Cabinet of Count Gian Galeazzo Ciano, "that Germany is lost, that Hitler has ruined the country and its people."[5]

She died on 22 September 1999 in Marbella, Spain.

References

  1. ^ Emanuel, Muriel (23 January 2016). Contemporary Architects. Springer. ISBN 9781349041848 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Persson, Sune (30 October 2009). Escape from the Third Reich: Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses. Grub Street Publishers. ISBN 9781783469512 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Famille: Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck + Ann-Mari Tengbom – Rodovid FR". fr.rodovid.org.
  4. ^ Eugen Dollmann, 'With Hitler and Mussolini: Memoirs of a Nazi Interpreter
  5. ^ The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, (1945) p.348.