Ann-Mari Tengbom

Ann-Mari, Princess of Bismarck 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. 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.
Ferdinand, Prince of Bismarck
Count Carl Alexander.
Count Maximilian Viktor.
Countess Gunilla Margaretha.
Count Eduard Leopold.

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.