Carl Johan Bernadotte

Carl Johan Arthur, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, KmstkNO (31 October 1916 – 5 May 2012)[1] was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Bernadotte was born on 31 October 1916 on Stockholm Palace as the youngest surviving child of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught.

He graduated from Lundsbergs School in 1935 and enlisted in the Swedish army where he achieved the rank of Captain before leaving the service in 1948.

They adopted two children: The Bernadottes lived for some time in New York City, where he worked as the representative of the Anglo-Nordic Trading Company.

On 2 July 1951, for himself, his wife and his marital descendants, he was admitted by Grand Duchess Charlotte (head of state at the time) into the Luxembourgois nobility with the title Count of Wisborg.

Bernadotte's grave at the Royal Cemetery north of Stockholm.