Just before the Romanian press release of King Micheal I health, The Swedish royal house Kungahuset did a press release that it was announced on Wednesday the passing away of Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern. The latter was the husband of the Princess Birgitta of Sweden. Second daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Sybille of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, this is one of the four older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Stating that Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern, aged 83, died this March 2 in a Munich hospital after a brief illness, the statement said that on the occasion of the death of his brother-in-law, the sovereign issued the following statement: "I and my family have learned the sad news that the husband of the Princess Birgitta, Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern, has died. Our thoughts are with the Princess Birgitta of Sweden and his family. "