Margareta Fouché, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margareta Fouché

noble

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1909

Place of Birth: Elghammar Castle, Södermanland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 25-Aug-2005

Nationality: Sweden, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (28 March 1909 – 25 August 2005) was the wife of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and mother of Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, who married Princess Benedikte of Denmark. The daughter of Charles Louis Fouché, 6th Duke of Otranto (a descendant of Napoleonic statesman Joseph Fouché) and his first wife, Countess Hedvig Ingeborg Madeleine Douglas (a descendant of Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden), she was born Margareta Fouché d'Otrante in Elghammar, Sweden. Her husband, Rittmeister Gustav Albrecht, was the head of the mediatized princely house of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.
He went missing in action in 1944, during World War II, and was declared legally dead in 1969.
From 1944 to 1955, after her husband was reported missing, Margareta, as Princess Dowager, became the guardian for her son, Prince Richard, and managed her late husband's properties.
The family went into exile in her native Sweden.
Prince Richard later married Princess Benedikte of Denmark.