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Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld

 
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Princess Désirée
Désirée is on the far right in this family group from her childhood
Spouse Baron Nils August Silfverschiöld
Issue
Baron Carl Otto Silfverschiöld
Baroness Kristina-Louise Silfverschiöld
Baroness Hèléne Silfverschiöld
Full name
Désirée Elisabeth Sibylla
Father Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
Mother Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Born 2 June 1938 (1938-06-02) (age 71)
Haga Palace, Solna, Sweden

Swedish Royal Family
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HM The King
HM The Queen



Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (Désirée Elisabeth Sibylla) (born 2 June 1938), was born at Haga Palace outside Stockholm. She is the third child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.

Princess Désirée's engagement to Baron Nils-August Otto Carl Niclas Silfverschiöld, born at Koberg Castle, Sweden on 31 May 1934, son of Baron Carl Silfverschiöld and wife Madeleine Bennich, was announced on 18 December 1963, and the couple married the next year on 5 June 1964 in Storkyrkan in Stockholm. As a result of her unequal marriage, she lost her style of Royal Highness and became Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld.

Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld lives on the Silfvershiöld family's castle Koberg. She tries to stay out of the public eye, but when she is asked she often accepts official engagements on behalf of the Swedish Royal Family (which occur one or a few times a year). Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld and her husband are every now and then invited to the official dinners that The King and Queen host, and sometimes also to the dinners connected to state visits to Sweden. Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld is Crown Princess Victoria's godmother.

Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld's marriage has produced three children:

  • Baron Carl Otto Edmund Silfverschiöld (b. Göteborg, 22 March 1965), 200th in the Line of succession to the British Throne, married in the presence of the complete Royal family in the church in Falsterbo, in the extreme south of Sweden, on 18 June 2005 to Maria Fredriksson (b. Slottsstaden, Malmö, 12 April 1965), who has two sons, Peder (b. 1994) and Niels (b. 1997), from a previous relationship, and had one daughter:
    • Baroness Anna Margareta Sibylla Désirée Silfverschiöld (b. Danderyd, 13 December 2006)
  • Baroness Kristina-Louisa Ewa Madeleine Silfverschiöld (b. Göteborg, 29 September 1966), married at Koberg Castle on 11 September 1999 Baron Hans de Geer af Finspång (b. Stockholm, 26 January 1963), and had three children:
    • Baroness Estelle Louise Désirée de Geer af Finspång (b. Stockholm, 14 September 2000)
    • Baron Ian Carl Gerard de Geer af Finspång (b. Stockholm, 20 February 2002)
    • Baron Fred Louis Gerard de Geer af Finspång (b. Danderyds Hospital or Stockholm, 16 September 2004)
  • Baroness Helene Ingeborg Sibylla Silfverschiöld (b. Göteborg, 20 September 1968, unmarried and without issue

Ancestry

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Oscar II of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Gustav V of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Sofia of Nassau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Victoria of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Princess Louise of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Victoria of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Princess Margaret of Connaught
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Maria Anna of Anhalt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Princess Désirée of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (= 20)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Victoria of the United Kingdom (= 21)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Helene Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Princess Caroline of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Born: 2 June 1938
British royalty
Preceded by
Baroness Madeleine von Dincklage
Line of succession to the British Throne Succeeded by
Baron Carl Silfverschiöld

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