Ann-Mari Tengbom Explained

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.

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 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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Emanuel, Muriel. Contemporary Architects. 23 January 2016. Springer. 9781349041848. Google Books.
  2. Book: Persson, Sune. Escape from the Third Reich: Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses. 30 October 2009. Grub Street Publishers. 9781783469512. Google Books.
  3. Web site: 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.