Page "Fredrik Reinfeldt" Paragraph 49

During the 2006 election, it was brought to attention that Reinfeldt's paternal great-grandfather, John Reinfeldt, was the illegitimate son of Emma Dorotea Reinfeld, a maid from Eckau in present-day Latvia, and John Hood, an African American circus director from New York.

Emma Dorotea Reinfeld later married the Swede Anders Karlsson, but her son John kept his mother's surname.

The spelling was later changed to Reinfeldt.

He also has Italian ancestry, via his paternal grandmother, who was allegedly related to royals King Ferdinand IV of Naples and his queen, Marie Caroline of Austria.