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The Engagement of Princess Birgitta of Sweden, daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, son of the Prince of Hohenzollern and Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony, was announced at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on this day in 1960. The Prince and Princess got married in Stockholm and Sigmaringen in May 1961. The couple had three children and separated in 1990, but remained married until his death in 2016.
These two made such a lovely couple! It was a shame that it didn’t work out quite as well as they hoped it would.