Ann-Mari | |
Princess of Bismarck | |
Birth Date: | 26 July 1907 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Death Place: | Marbella, Spain |
Father: | Ivar Tengbom |
Noble Family: | Tengbom (by birth) Bismarck (by marriage) |
Spouse: | 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 |
Royal Name: | The Princess of Bismarck |
Dipstyle: | Her Serene Highness |
Offstyle: | 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.
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 Folke 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]
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.