Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Queen of Denmark
Titles	HM Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (1947-1952) HM The Queen of Denmark (1912-1947) HRH The Crown Princess of Denmark (1898-1912) HGDH Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879-1898)
Born	December 24, 1879
	Cannes, France
Died	December 28, 1952
	Copenhagen, Denmark
Consort	May 14, 1912 – April 20, 1947
Consort to	Christian X
Issue	Frederik IX, Kund
Father	Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mother	Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia

Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (December 24, 1879- December 28, 1952) was the consort of King Christian X of Denmark.

She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the city of Schwerin. Her father was the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; her mother was the Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

Princess Alexandrine married Crown Prince Christian of Denmark on April 26, 1898, in Cannes, France, when she was 18 years old. She died in Copenhagen as Dowager Queen of Denmark in 1952 and is interred next to her husband in Roskilde Cathedral.

The only brother of Queen Alexandrine was Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born April 9, 1882, in Palermo, Italy; married Princess Alexandra of Hanover, in Gmunden, Austria, on June 7, 1904; died November 17, 1945, in Flensburg, Germany).

The only sister of Queen Alexandrine was the Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie (born September 20, 1886, in Schwerin; married (last)Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, in Berlin, on June 6, 1905; died May 6, 1954, in Kissingen, Germany).