Marriage
On a visit in 1959 to friends and relatives in Germany, the princess met her future husband at a cocktail party.
On 15 December 1960, her engagement to Johann Georg Carl Leopold Eitel-Friedrich Meinrad Maria Hubertus Michael, Prince of Hohenzollern (b. 1932), was announced.
The civil ceremony took place at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on 25 May 1961, and the religious in the Sankt Johann Church at the bridegroom's Family Palace of Sigmaringen on 30 May/ 31 July 1961. The bridesmaids were the bride’s sister Princess Christina and cousin Princess Benedikte of Denmark; the groomsmen were the bride's brother Crown Prince Carl Gustaf and her cousin Count Michael Bernadotte of Wisborg (son of Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg).
Birgitta converted to the Catholic Church when she married the Hohenzollern prince and thus she and her children have been ineligible for succession to the Swedish throne even when new constitutional regulations took effect in Sweden in 1979 and 1980.
Prince Johann Georg and Princess Birgitta separated in 1990, though they remain legally married. She lives on the island of Majorca in Spain, while her husband, known as "Hansi," lives in Munich and is an art expert, the director of a museum and board member of Christies.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?—as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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