Original name: Elin Kerstin Margareta Wijkmark

Swedish journalist, author and socialite. By marriage a Countess and Princess in the nobility of Luxembourg. She was editor of Vecko-Revyn 1938–1945 and Bildjournalen 1954–1956. Her three published books are about her friendly interaction with father-in-law King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1967), her memoires (1975) and rules of ettiquette (1982). She was the daughter of theologist Henning Wijkmark och Elin (Larsson) Wijkmark and half-sister of author Carl-Henning Wijkmark. She married twice, first (1935–1936) Axel Johnsson (1908–1953) and then in 1946 Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Duke of Dalecarlia, who lost the right to use his royal titles in Sweden because he married her. They adopted two children, and their marriage lasted till her death. In 1951 both were created Count and Countess of Wisborg by Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg in the nobility there and were in that decree also mentioned by the higher noble title of Prince and Princess Bernadotte (titles they never used) and granted a special princely coat of arms. In Sweden, the special name Bernadotte af Wisborg also was approved by that country's king and used by a few relatives. Kerstin Bernadotte in her memoires described the nasty treatment she and her second husband were subjected to by "invisible enemies" at the Swedish Royal Court because of their marriage, but she also wrote about reconciliation and better times with his family in later years. Count and Countess Bernadotte lived in the United States for many years, but their final life together was spent in the fashionable community of Båstad in Sweden's southernmost province of Scania. One of their close friends was Swedish-American actress Greta Garbo. Kerstsin Bernadotte's second husband and his second wife were buried in the Royal Cemetery near Stockholm, whereras Kerstin's grave remains alone in the south.