This is OT in a way but what is known about Count Ingolf's first wife who sadly died at an early age? She always appeared in photos to be sweet and quiet but I know nothing about her.
I do not know much about her either, but she was said to be unassuming and friendly. She was a trained clerk and worked for a time in her father's ironmongers shop. Her favourite pastimes were dancing and playing tennis, and she also sewed her own dresses. She became a good housewife and supported her husband, but it was not always easy. When Ingolf was in his fourties, he had a big alcohol problem and almost drank himself to death. "I constantly snarled at Inge", he said in 1989 after having been sober for five years. "She certainly had to put up with much in the years I was boozing. Now that I have stopped drinking our marriage is considerably better".
Countess Inge was struck by breast cancer at the age of 57 and was open about her condition. She remained optimistic until a few days before she passed away a year and a half later.
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