Figure 1.--This is the Countess Brnadotte with two of their boys. We are not sure which they are. They may be Gustaf Eduard and Folke. The photograph looks to have been taken about 1935.

Bernadotte married Estelle Romaine Manville (1904–84) in Pleasantville, New York (1928). Her family had help found the Johns-Manville Corporation. They had four sons, two of whom tragically died as children. The two uidest were Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte of Wisborg (1930–36) and Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (born 1931), married Christine Glahns. They are probaby the two boys pictured here with the Countess (figure 1). The two yonger boys were Fredrik Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (1934–34) who died in infabcy and Count Bertil Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (born 1935) married Rose-Marie Heering (1942–1967) and Jill Georgina Rhodes-Maddox. Many years after Count Bernadotte's death, it became publically known that before his marriage, Bernadotte had a daughter with actress Lillie Ericson-Udde (Lillie Christina Ericson, 1892–1981). Jeanne Birgitta Sofia Kristina Matthiessen, née Ericson (1921–91) had been adopted by Carl G. W. Matthiessen (1886–1951) when he married Lillie Ericson (1925).

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