# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/princess-birgitta-of-sweden
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:26.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/princess-birgitta-of-sweden"
name: "Princess Birgitta of Sweden"
slug: "princess-birgitta-of-sweden"
description: "She was the Swedish princess who married into German royalty — a Hohenzollern, no less — and spent six decades straddling two old European houses, one still reigning, the other long deposed."
tagline: "Swedish princess (1937-2024); elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Princess_Birgitta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1937-01-19"
deathDate: "2024-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9165747263006025
  historical:           22.063068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Sweden"
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  - name: "20th Century"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 19 January 1937, Birgitta Ingeborg Alice was the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She grew up in the shadow of tragedy: her father died in a plane crash when she was ten, leaving her younger brother to eventually inherit the throne as Carl XVI Gustaf. In 1961 she married Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, joining the Swabian branch of the family that once ruled the German Empire. The marriage took her out of Sweden's direct royal line but kept her tethered to the continent's tangled aristocratic web. She died 4 December 2024, having lived long enough to see her brother's Sweden modernize while her husband's name remained a relic of empire.