Swedish-German landscaper. He was born Prince of Sweden of the Bernadotte Dynasty and Duke of Smallands. He was the son of Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, his mother being from the Imperial Family of Russia. His parents were divorced already in 1914 when his mother left Sweden and remarried, not to see much more of her son until late in her life. He was brought up by his grandmother Queen Viktoria of Sweden, through whom he eventually would inherit the Mainau Estate (see below) and was an officer in the Swedish cavalry. He was also a photographer and led national projects to benefit children. When in 1932 he married a non-royal Swedish woman his old grandfather King Gustav V removed all of his Swedish titles, and it was announced that he was to be called only Mr.Bernadotte. In his memoirs he later described how he and his wife were bullied and treated cruelly by the Swedish royal court, with his uncle Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf wishing to make an example of him as to what should happen to any prince who disregarded the succession to the throne. His wife began to have severe depressions and anxiety because of that treatment and the marriage could not be saved, ending in divorce in 1971 when their four children were adults. He also described being hampered in his career after refuting the erotic advances of a powerful male politician in Stockholm and how his cousin Sigvard (Gustaf Adolf's son) was treated even worse when he too married 'beneath his station'. The two cousins were given the titles Prince Bernadotte and Count of Wisborg in the nobility of Luxembourg in 1951 by that country's government, but the Swedish royal court to this day (2022) refuses to acknowledge the higher princely title. He left Sweden in 1952 and went on to take over the island of Mainau in a German lake and turn it into a highly successful tourist attraction, especially thanks to his skill and talent in designing the facility's extensive and luxurious parks and gardens. In his second marriage, to a younger woman employed at Mainau Palace where he lived, he had another five children and, with her assistance, additionally improved their island paradise. He was supported in all he did by his father Prince Wilhelm whose grave in Flen south of Stockholm also welcomed the remains of the wife whom Prince Lennart Bernadotte had divorced in 1971.