Princess Birgitta is dead, the Royal House announces in a press release. She lived to be 87 years old and died peacefully in Mallorca. She was one of the king’s older sisters and in a press release he expresses his sadness.
– My sister was a colorful and straightforward person who will be deeply missed by me and my family. Together with my entire family, today I send my condolences to Princess Birgitta’s children and grandchildren, says the king.
Johan T Lindwall, editor-in-chief of Svensk Damtidning and court expert, describes great surprise at the death.
– She was Sweden’s most colorful princess, she said exactly what she thought and thought and had no problem with it, he says.
“Very sad”
The princess lived alone after separating from her husband Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern. Together with her three sisters Margaretha, Désirée and Christina, she made up the well-known Hagasesses.
– I was very surprised when we spoke to her very recently. At the time she was in good spirits and was out having lunch with girlfriends on a golf course in Mallorca, so there were no indications of this, says Johan T Lindwall.
Court expert Roger Lundgren knew her personally.
– Birgitta was a private friend of mine but also an old lady who was seriously ill, which I had no idea about. This is very sad, he says.
Produced the princess’s summer talk
Claes-Johan Larsson, court expert, believes that the princess could never sit still and always wanted to invent things.
– Many describe her as colorful and straightforward. The others in the family were a little afraid of her. She could hatch things and was straightforward about what she wanted, he says.
Claes-Johan Larsson was also the producer for the princess’s summer talk.
– Before the summer talk, I asked her what she remembers most from her time in Haga. “It was the day when for the first time we were going to see the cinema with ordinary children who were not treated against us. I don’t remember what movie it was. It might sound small to you, but it was big to me,” she replied.