Swedish noblewoman, lady-in-waiting and a titular princess, the spouse of Prince Oscar Bernadotte. Daughter of Lord Colonel Carl Jacob Munck af Fulkila and Baroness Henrica née Cederström. In 1888, she married Prince Oscar of Sweden and Norway, who thus wed below royalty, lost his royal titles and thereafter was called Prince Oscar Bernadotte in Sweden, his wife also then being given the courtesy title of Princess Bernadotte. Also with her husband granted that title in the nobility of Luxembourg, plus the title of Countess of Wisborg, by Grand Duke Adolph in 1892. In Sweden, the special name Bernadotte af Wisborg also was approved by that country's king and developed among certain descendants. She was not considered Swedish royalty but a member of the extended Royal Family (Kungafamiljen). Oscar and Ebba had three daughters and two sons, of which one was internationally famous U.N. mediator Count Folke Bernadotte.
Swedish noblewoman, lady-in-waiting and a titular princess, the spouse of Prince Oscar Bernadotte. Daughter of Lord Colonel Carl Jacob Munck af Fulkila and Baroness Henrica née Cederström. In 1888, she married Prince Oscar of Sweden and Norway, who thus wed below royalty, lost his royal titles and thereafter was called Prince Oscar Bernadotte in Sweden, his wife also then being given the courtesy title of Princess Bernadotte. Also with her husband granted that title in the nobility of Luxembourg, plus the title of Countess of Wisborg, by Grand Duke Adolph in 1892. In Sweden, the special name Bernadotte af Wisborg also was approved by that country's king and developed among certain descendants. She was not considered Swedish royalty but a member of the extended Royal Family (Kungafamiljen). Oscar and Ebba had three daughters and two sons, of which one was internationally famous U.N. mediator Count Folke Bernadotte.
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