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The royal family of Denmark during the Queen Margrethe II's 70th birthday on 16 April 2010. From left to right: Queen Mary of Denmark (then Crown Princess), Count Felix (then Prince Felix), King Frederik X (then Crown Prince), Crown Prince Christian (then Prince Christian), Queen Margrethe II, Count Nikolai (then Prince Nikolai), Prince Henrik, Prince Joachim and Princess Isabella
King of Denmark r. 1086–1095: Ingegerd of Norway 1046–1120: Ingerid of Denmark: Olaf III c. 1050 –1093 King of Norway: Harald III Hen c. 1040 –1080 King of Denmark r. 1076–1080: Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter: Canute IV the Holy c. 1042 –1086 King of Denmark r. 1080–1086: Adela of Flanders c. 1064 –1115: Eric I Evergood c. 1060 ...
The House of Oldenburg held the Danish Crown between 1448 and 1863, when it passed to the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the same house, patrilineally descended from King Christian III of Denmark. The kingdom had been elective (although the eldest son or brother of the previous king was usually elected ...
The Kingdom of Denmark was already consolidated in the 8th century, whose rulers are consistently referred to in Frankish sources (and in some late Frisian sources) as "kings" . Under the rule of King Gudfred in 804 the Kingdom may have included all the major provinces of medieval Denmark. [1] The current unified Kingdom of Denmark was founded ...
King Frederick IX, Queen Ingrid, and their three children Princesses Margrethe (11), Benedikte (7) and Anne-Marie (5), smile in this family portrait taken at their home in Copenhagen. Keystone ...
[10] [16] Two of these children, Christian and Haakon, became King of Denmark and King of Norway, respectively. [10] [27] Frederick and Louise's family came to be defined by Louise's piety. Moreover, Louise oversaw the strictly disciplined education of her children. [27] Over time, Frederick and Louise's marriage became a reasonably happy one. [27]
Denmark's soon-to-be king and queen have sought to balance their royal jobs with a modern family life and an engagement in progressive causes, helping keep the monarchy relevant and popular in the ...
Prince Frederik as an infant in the arms of his mother, 1968. Frederik was born by emergency caesarean section at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital in Copenhagen, on 26 May 1968 at 23:50 [9] to the then Princess Margrethe (later Queen Margrethe II), oldest daughter of King Frederik IX and heir presumptive to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik.