Ann-Mari Tengbom
Swedish socialite
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 Folke 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).
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