The Scandinavian Royals Message Board: Re: The Swedish connection

The Sayn-Wittgenstein-BErleburg Family has swedish connection. The father of Prince Richard, the late Fürst Gustav Albrecht married Margarethe _Fopuche d'Otrante, and 2 of their daughter smaried german nobles. Madeleine married Count Otto zu Solms-Laubach and Tatianata married Landgrave Moritz of Hesse
And Marie Fouche d'Otrante married Fürst Philipp Reinhard zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
and then there is Count Archibald Douglas whjo married Archduchess Walburga of Austria, their son Count Maurits Douglas recently married Countess Emma zu solms-Laubach

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It seems that quite a few European royals, whether by birth or marriage, have Swedish ancestry. Carina Axelsson, who in 2022 was finally able to marry Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittenstein-Berleburg, is half-Swedish through her father. Gustav's kinswoman Anna, who in 2005 married Prince Manuel of Bavaria, was born to a German prince and a Swedish countess. And Manuel's kinsman Max Emanuel, Duke in Bavaria, married in 1967 Countess Elisabeth Douglas, who is also a Swede by birth.

I believe that Ingrid Detter, the mother of Lady Nicholas Windsor, is Swedish as well. Are there additional examples of Swedes with ties to royalty, other than the Bernadottes?