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. Laura Bergnéhr was the daughter of lieutenant Lars August Bergnéhr and the courtesan Lovisa Spångberg (her mother later married the nobleman and court official Axel Fredrik Liljenstolpe), and the cousin of

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and Leocadie Gerlach. Bergnéhr was an actress and made her debut at the ''

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'' in 1847. Among her roles there where Cordelia in

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. Her stage career, however, seems to have been moderate. She and her three sisters where reportedly well known courtesans in mid 19th-century Stockholm with clientele among the upper classes, "the same and in a similar way famed as the eight Löf sisters", that is to say as the famed courtesan-actress

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and her sisters. Laura Bergnéhr are most known as the mistress of crown prince Charles: he referred to her as ”Signora Farali” and stated that he would create a new word, "faral", which was "meant to signify and replace the word morality".
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' * https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Liljenstolpe_nr_2151 * Nordensvan, Georg, ''Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar''. Andra delen, 1842–1918, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1918 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergnehr, Laura 1852 deaths Mistresses of Charles XV 19th-century Swedish actresses Swedish stage actresses Swedish courtesans