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How old is Anni-Frid Lyngstad, what does the ABBA star do now, who was her father Alfred Haase and who’s her partner?

After achieving worldwide success with ABBA, the popstar went on to marry a prince. Here's all you need to know about the beautiful brunette...

ANNI-FRID Lyngstad made up one part of the four-person group ABBA that went on to achieve worldwide success and win over hordes of life-long fans.

Here’s everything you need to know about the beautiful brunette…

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Anni-Frid went from pop-star to princess when she married d Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss, Count of Plauen

How old is Anni-Frid Lyngstad?

Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad was born in Bjørkåsen in northern Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father on 15th November 1945.

She relocated to Sweden with her mother and grandmother when she was two.

The singer will celebrate her 73rd birthday in November 2018.

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The 72-year-old now lives in Zermatt, Switzerland

Where is the Abba star now?

Anni-Frid has taken a hiatus from music since 2005 preferring to now be involved in charity work.

In 1992 she married Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss, Count of Plauen.

She became the Dowager Princess of Reuss when Heinrich Ruzzo died of Lymphoma in October 1999.

As of 2008 she lives in Zermatt, Switzerland with her aristocratic British boyfriend Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambledon.

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She achieved worldwide success through Abba

Who was her father Alfred Haase?

Anni-Frid’s father was Alfred Haase.

He was a German sergeant in the Wehrmacht, after the end of WW2 and Germany’s occupation of Norway.

Haase returned to Germany when his unit was evacuated.

Anni-Frid never knew her father growing up and was re-located to Sweden when she was just two.

The star met her father three decades later in a reunion organised by her then husband and bandmate Benny Andersson.

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Who’s Anni-Frid’s partner?

As of 2008 she lives in Zermatt, Switzerland with her aristocratic British boyfriend Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambledon.

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