Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister

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Countess
Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister
File:Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister.jpg
Mistress of the Robes
In office
1994 – 31 December 2015
Monarch Carl XVI Gustaf
Preceded by Astrid Rudebeck
Succeeded by Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke
Statsfru
In office
1978–1993
Succeeded by Louise Lyberg
Personal details
Born Alice Tornérhielm
(1926-05-09) 9 May 1926 (age 98)
Annerstad, Kronoberg County
Spouse(s) Count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister (m. 1949)
Residence Trolle-Ljungby Castle

Countess Alice Victoria Trolle-Wachtmeister (née Tornérhielm; born 9 May 1926) is a Swedish noblewoman who served the Royal Court of Sweden from the 1970s to 2015, having served as Mistress of the Robes from 1994 to 2015.

Career

Alice Tornérhielm was born on 9 May 1926 as the daughter of Erik Tornérhielm, a squire from Gedsholm, and the Danish-born Ellen Valentiner-Branth. She received training as a child care nurse, as well as in air monitoring service and staff welfare services, before joining the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Service in 1943. In 1949, Alice Tornérhielm married Count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister, a member of the Trolle-Wachtmeister family, with whom she has since lived at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania.[1]

The Countess presided over the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Service from 1974 until 1978, when she became a statsfru, a high ranking court official. She served as such until 1994, when she was promoted to the office of the Mistress of the Robes, succeeding Astrid Rudebeck.[1] As such, she is now the highest ranking non-royal woman in Sweden.[2]

On 23 February 2012, along with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Speaker of the Parliament Per Westerberg and the Marshal of the Realm Svante Lindqvist, Countess Trolle-Wachtmeister was presented the newborn Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland. According to tradition, the Mistress of the Robes and the other officials are required to witness that the second in the line of succession to the throne is indeed the child of the Crown Princess, rather than a changeling.[3] She then attended the announcement of the Princess's names on 24 February.[4]

Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

References

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External links

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Court offices
Preceded by Mistress of the Robes
1994—2015
Succeeded by
Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke
Order of precedence
Preceded by as marshal Swedish
order of precedence
Succeeded by
Thage G. Peterson
as former speaker
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