THE ADVENTURES OF AGNETHA, BENNY, BJORN AND ANNI-FRID

Frida Lyngstad was born in Bjørkåsen, Norway on November 15, 1945.  Her father,  Alfred Haase, was a German soldier who invaded Norway on behalf of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.  Alfred Haase fell in love with a Norwegian girl and produced a daughter.  After World War II,  Alfred Haase  abandoned his wife and daughter to join his German military regiment to Germany after Germany lost World War II and the Nazi occupation of Norway ended.  Fearing a violent homicidal backlash against those who aided and abetted German Nazi soldiers, Frida Lyngstad and her grandmother Arntine Lyngstad left Norway to relocate to Sweden.  Frida Lyngstad's mother joined both her and Arntine Lyngstad in Sweden only to die from kidney failure shortly afterwerds.  Frida Lyngstad's mother was only twenty-one years old when she died of kidney failure.  She was under the age of twenty-one when she got pregnant by a German soldier.  With her German Nazi father abadoned her and disavoid all connection to her and her Mother dead, Frida Lyngstad was raised by her grandmother to adulthood.  She was fooled into believing that her father Alfred Haase was dead only to learn that he didn't die in a shipwreck and produced a previously unknown half-brother named Peter Haase.  She eventually met her father before he died on January 2009.
Frida Lyngstad married Ragnar Fredriksson on April 3, 1963, they separated in 1969 and divorced in 19 May 1970.  Frida Lyngstad and Ragnar Fredriksson produced two children Hans Ragnar and Ann Lise-Lotte.  Frida Lyngstad's grandmother died on the same day as the day she divorced Ragnar Fredriksson. 
Frida Lyngstad won the Swedish New Faces talent competition on  September 26, 1967 and won the chance to record the song   En Ledig Dag (A Day Off) on EMI Records.  With the help of her fiance Benny Andersson (They never married), she recorded and released the album Frida.  Both Frida Lyngstad aka Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson joined ABBA with Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog.  During the nine year period that she was a member of ABBA, she recorded and released a solo album Frida ensam (Frida Alone).  The two men and two women rock group released eight albums before breaking up and never reuniting ever again.  After the breakup of ABBA, Frida Lyngstad aka Anni-Frid Lyngstad released three more albums, Something's Going On, Shine and Djupa andetag (Deep Breaths).   She married into European nobility with her wedding to Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen.  Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen had a previous wife Mette Rinde with whom he produced two children (Step-children to Frida Lyngstad aka Anni-Frid Lyngstad) named Henriette Anna-Bess Helle Mette, Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen and  Princess Pauline Reuss (Both are identical twins).  After she married Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen she became known as Princess Anni-Frid Synni Reuss, Countess of Plauen.  Her daughter from her first marriage to Ragnar Fredriksson, Ann Lise-Lotte, died in a car wreck a full year after the royal marriage.  Survivors include Ann Lise-Lotte's spouse and her son Jonathon.  Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen died on October 29, 1999.  Princess Anni-Frid Synni Reuss, Countess of Plauen has been an unmarried widow ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad