Anna Charlier

Anna Albertina Constantia Charlier[1] (/'ʃaljə/)[2]) (25 July 1871 – 1949) was a Swedish woman, today most commonly remembered as the fiancée of Nils Strindberg, a participant in S. A. Andrée's ill-fated Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.

Anna and Strindberg became engaged on 26 October 1896, eight months before the expedition left for Svalbard.

Anna emigrated to the United States in 1910 and married Gilbert Henry Conserray Hawtrey.

She said the following about the visit: "Anna's husband Gilbert Hawtrey was a wonderful human being who tried in all possible ways to help his sorrow-ridden wife to forget.

Her heart was to be removed from her body and buried near the urn that contained Strindberg's ashes.