During the German occupation of Poland, he declared Polish nationality and refused to sign the Volksliste.

She was a daughter of Oscar Carl Gustav Ankarcrona and his wife, Anna Elisabeth Aurora Carleson (b.

1867), daughter of Edvard Henrik Carleson (1820–1912), Councilor of State of the Kingdom of Sweden.

She was the widow of Count Ludwik Badeni (1873-1916), a diplomat working at the Austro-Hungarian legation in Stockholm.

On 15 December 1949, Otto von Habsburg, as the Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine accorded her the hereditary title of "Princess of Altenburg".