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Topic: Bernadotte af Wisborg


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Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotlandia, later Count Oscar Bernadotte af Wisborg (1859-1953)
His second son, Oscar, resigned his royal rights on his marriage in 1888 with a lady-in-waiting, Miss Ebba Munck, when he assumed the title of Prince Bernadotte and from 1892 he was known as Count Wisborg.
The king's other sons were Charles, duke of Westrogothia, who married Princess Ingeborg of Denmark; and Eugén, duke of Nericia well known as an artist.
www.e-paranoids.com /o/os/oscar_ii_of_sweden.html   (747 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1948
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Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (January 2, 1895 - September 17, 1948), is noted for his negotiation for the release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II.
He was the son of Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden) and his wife, née...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1948   (10025 words)

  
 Gandhi and Nobel Peace Prize
This is interesting because Hammarskjöld died in a Congo plane crash on the night of 17-18 September 1961, and Bernadotte was assassinated by Jewish extremists on the same day (17 September 1948).
Bernadotte, in fact, had not even been nominated that year.
Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg, the Swedish U.N. Security Council mediator between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, was killed by Stern Group terrorists.
www.mkgandhi.org /nobel/nobelpeaceprize.htm   (7169 words)

  
 Biographies on the History of Sweden, by Period
Swedish Kings and Queens from Vasa to Bernadotte, list of royals since 1523 with clickable biographies
of Pomerania (Erik af Pommern) 1385-1459 King 1397-1437 (1449)
, 1763-1844, King 1818-1844 (= Jean Baptiste Bernadotte)
www.zum.de /whkmla/biographies/scandinavia/bioxsweper.html   (1913 words)

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