Cecilia af Klercker

Cecilia af Klercker née Lewenhaupt (1869, in Ericsberg Palace, Katrineholm Municipality – 1951) was a Swedish memoirist, translator and court official.

She served as statsfru (lady of the Bedchamber) to the queen of Sweden, Victoria of Baden, from 1903 to 1930.

[1] She was the daughter of courtier count Charles Adam Sixten Casimir Erik Lewenhaupt and Ingeborg Vilhelmina Sofia Charlotta Bonde.

[2] She is known as the translator of the last parts (4–9, 1920–1942) of the famous journal of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, continuing the work begun by her uncle Carl Carlson Bonde.

She also published her own memoirs of her life as a lady-in-waiting, Förgången glans : en drottnings statsfru berättar, 1944 (literary:'Former Splendour: the story of a lady-in-waiting of a queen').