Gunnila Bernadotte


Gunnila Märta Louise, Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg was a Swedish and Luxembourgish noblewoman.

Early life

The daughter of Count Nils Claes Ludvig Wachtmeister af Johannishus and Baroness Märta Ebba Carolina de Geer af Leufsta.

First marriage

She was first married in 1942 to Carl-Herman Albert Gerhard Bussler, son of Karl-Gerhard Bussler and Countess Catharina Stenbock. The couple had four children together:
  • Louise
  • Catharina
  • Madeleine
  • Carl-Fredrik "Fred"

Second marriage

Following her first husband's death, on 29 September 1988, in Copenhagen she became the second wife of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, a widower and the youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf and Princess Margaret of Connaught. Via her marriage to Bernadotte she became nobility in Luxembourg and was addressed there as Princess Bernadotte and Countess of Wisborg due to titles granted to her husband by Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
In 2010, Bernadotte gifted her with the house in Båstad, built many years earlier for himself and his first wife, Kerstin Wijkmark. He died in 2012.