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Greta Garbo: Her father on the left, and her mother on the right. “Bonde“ means farmer. A genealogist found 32 ancestors on her father‘s side and as many on her mother‘s who had come from peasantry at the end of the 17th century. For the most part they came from the provinces of Östergötland and Smaland in southern Sweden. Other scholars have strained to find ties to medieval nobility.

Family

Her father on the left, and her mother on the right. “Bonde“ means farmer. A genealogist found 32 ancestors on her father‘s side and as many on her mother‘s who had come from peasantry at the end of the 17th century. For the most part they came from the provinces of Östergötland and Smaland in southern Sweden. Other scholars have strained to find ties to medieval nobility.

Garbo‘s grandmother

Johanna Gustafsson (following page) was not, in fact, Greta‘s grand mother. Garbo‘s paternal grandfather remarried after the death of his first wife, Louisa, and Johanna was his second wife here photographed with a photo album in her lap. The grandchildren frequently visited their grandparents

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