Alice Sommerlath
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Alice Sommerlath | |
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Born | Alice Soares de Toledo 25 May 1906 |
Died | 9 March 1997 | (aged 90)
Spouse(s) | |
Children | Ralf Sommerlath Walther Ludwig Sommerlath Hans Jörg Sommerlath Silvia, Queen of Sweden |
Alice de Toledo Sommerlath (née Alice Soares de Toledo; 25 May 1906 – 9 March 1997) was the mother of Queen Silvia, wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Early life[]
Sommerlath was born in the municipality of São Manuel in the Brazilian state of São Paulo,[1][2] she was the youngest child and only daughter of Elisa Novais Soares (1881–1928) and her husband Arthur Floriano de Toledo (1873–1935).
Marriage and later life[]
On 10 December 1925, Alice Soares de Toledo married at Santa Cecília, São Paulo to German entrepreneur Walther Sommerlath (1901–1990), eventually moving to Germany with him. There, the couple had four children:
- Ralf Sommerlath (born 26 November 1929)
- Walther Ludwig Sommerlath (1934–2020)
- Hans Jörg Sommerlath (1941–2006)
- Silvia Renate Sommerlath (born 23 December 1943), married in 1976 to Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
From 1937 through 1947, they lived in Berlin.[3]
From 1947 to 1957, the family lived in São Paulo, where Sommerlath's husband held positions such as president of the Brazilian subsidiary of Swedish company Uddeholm AB.[4] In 1957, the Sommerlaths returned to Heidelberg.
Sommerlath was widowed in October 1990. She suffered from heart trouble and senile dementia[4] and died at Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö Municipality, west of Stockholm in 1997.[4] Her remains were buried in Heidelberg beside her husband's.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Ancestry of Queen Silvia of Sweden (b. 1943)". 2012-12-04. Archived from the original on 2012-12-04. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ Genealogia de Alice Soares de Toledo (in Portuguese)
- ^ "The Queen speaks about the report relating to her father, Walther Som…". 2018-12-10. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
- ^ a b c d "Aftonbladet nyheter: Silvia ärver 57000 efter mamma". 2018-12-10. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
- 1906 births
- 1997 deaths
- People from São Paulo (state)
- Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
- Brazilian people of indigenous peoples descent
- Brazilian emigrants to Germany
- German people of Brazilian descent
- Brazilian emigrants to Sweden