Princess Birgitta was very close to her little brother King Carl Gustaf, according to Roger Lundgren.
All five siblings have been extremely close to each other and had a lot of contact throughout the years. They saw each other as often as they could. Birgitta used to come to Sweden a couple of times a year.
Roger Lundgren knew her personally.
She was a fantastically fun person. Very humble, fun. But she didn't thrive that much in Sweden, she thrived best in southern latitudes, so to speak.
"Loved her golf"
Princess Birgitta lived for many years on Mallorca and lived separately from her husband Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern.
She loved her golf, of course, it was what she loved the most, and she loved socializing. She liked gingerbread cookies and Kalles caviar. I know it sounds trivial, but those were the things she liked.
Princess Birgitta, together with Margaretha, Desirée, and Christina, were known as the Haga sisters, born before little Prince Carl Gustaf came into the world in 1946. Birgitta is the first of the sisters to pass away.
Together with Tumba
In the 1960s, they made headlines in weekly and evening newspapers.
I once made the comparison that the four Haga sisters were like the Kardashians of their time. They were really extremely written about, they were super-celebrities. Everything they did generated enormous attention in Sweden. And Birgitta was probably the most unconventional of the sisters. She went her own way, says Roger Lundgren.
Among other things, she trained as a sports teacher and had a shorter relationship with the great sports star of the time, ice hockey player Sven Tumba.
They met each other at GIH and became a couple for a couple of years. It didn't result in a marriage between them, but they were almost best friends for life.
