German princess
| Ann-Mari | |
|---|---|
| Princess of Bismarck | |
 The Princess of Bismarck on her wedding day in 1928. | |
| Born | (1907-07-26)26 July 1907 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 22 September 1999(1999-09-22) (aged 92) Marbella, Spain |
| Noble family | Tengbom (by birth) Bismarck (by marriage) |
| Spouse(s) | Otto Christian Archibald, Prince of Bismarck |
| Issue | Countess Mari Ann von Bismarck-Schönhausen Ferdinand, Prince of Bismarck Count Maximilian von Bismarck-Schönhausen Countess Gunilla von Bismarck-Schönhausen Count Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen |
| Father | Ivar Tengbom |
| Styles of The Princess of Bismarck | |
|---|---|
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| Reference style | Her Serene Highness |
| Spoken style | Your 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). She attended school in Stockholm, where she was a classmate of Folk Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg.
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:
- 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. 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."
She died on 22 September 1999 in Marbella, Spain.
References
- Emanuel, Muriel (23 January 2016). Contemporary Architects. Springer. ISBN 9781349041848 – via Google Books.
- Persson, Sune (30 October 2009). Escape from the Third Reich: Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses. Grub Street Publishers. ISBN 9781783469512 – via Google Books.
- "Famille: Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck + Ann-Mari Tengbom – Rodovid FR". fr.rodovid.org.
- Eugen Dollmann, 'With Hitler and Mussolini: Memoirs of a Nazi Interpreter
- The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, (1945) p.348.