Margareta Fouché


Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg 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 and his first wife, Countess Hedvig Ingeborg Madeleine Douglas, 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.

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