Ingegjerd Løvenskiold Stuart

Ingegjerd Ebba Dagmar Løvenskiold Stuart, née Andvord (born 27 September 1931) is a Swedish-Norwegian royal servant.

She is a daughter of diplomat Rolf Otto Andvord,^[1] but her parents divorced when she was five years old. She lived in Sweden with her Swedish mother and stepfather. One time when visiting her father in Paris, she met business magnate Harald Løvenskiold, whom she married in 1951.^[2] She was a daughter-in-law of Carl Otto Løvenskiold (1898–1969) and mother of Carl Otto Løvenskiold (born 1953).^[3]

From 1952 she worked with modernisation of the buildings at Bærums Verk together with the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. The industry at Bærums Verk was eventually closed down, and the locality was transformed to the shopping district Handelsstedet Bærums Verk which opened in 1985. In the same year she was recruited by Sonja of Norway as mistress of the robes (Norwegian: overhoffmesterinne) in the royal court.^[2]

She has been active in the local branches of the Conservative Party, Norges Forsvarsforening and the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. After her husband died in 1994, she married Robert Stuart in 1995. Stuart was the US ambassador to Norway from 1989 to 1994. The couple relocated to Lake Forest, Illinois.^[2]

In 1989 she was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav.^[4] In 2009 a statue of her was erected at Bærums Verk.^[2]

References

1. Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Løvenskiold, Harald". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 363–364. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
2. Øverbye, Morten (20 June 2009). "Den utvalgte". Budstikka (in Norwegian). pp. 22–24.
3. Bratberg, Terje. "Løvenskiold". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
4. "Kommandør av St. Olavs Orden". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 14 July 1989.