Count Ingolf of Rosenborg
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Count Ingolf of Rosenborg (Ingolf Christian Frederik Knud Harald Gorm Gustav Viggo Valdemar Aage) was born on 17 February 1940 as Prince Ingolf of Denmark. He was the son of Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark. He was born at Sorgenfri Palace, Denmark.
Until the change in the Danish Constitution in 1953, he was second in line of succession to the throne (after his father the Heir Presumptive to succeed his uncle King Frederick IX.
[edit] Loss of succession
In 1968 he lost his rights of succession to the throne by marying without the consent of the Monarch in the Council of State. He took the title Count of Rosenborg (a title commonly accorded to Danish Princes who have renounced their rights of succession to the throne), henceforth being known as His Excellency Count Ingolf of Rosenborg. The practice of forfeiting the right of succession to the throne by marrying "without consent" in the event of an unequal marriage (i.e. to a commoner) thus appears to have continued even after the unequal marriage of Margrethe II of Denmark in 1967. He married Inge Terney (born Copenhagen 21 January 1938-21 July 1996) on 13 January 1968, at Lyngby, Denmark. He married Sussie Hjorhøy, who in connection of the marriage became Her Excellency Sussie, Countess of Rosenborg (born Copenhagen 20 February 1950) on 7 March 1998, at Engtved, Denmark. He has no children.
[edit] Public events
Count Ingolf takes part in some major public events associated with the Royal Family; in 2004, he and Countess Sussie attended the wedding on 14 May 2004 of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark at Copenhagen Cathedral,Copenhagen [1] and the subsequent reception at Fredensborg Palace.[2] They also attended the Memorial Service in honour of Empress Maria Feodorovna held on 22 September 2006.[3] He receives an annual allowance of 1.3 million kroner according to the Danish Royal House web-site.[4] Presumably this is to compensate him for having lost the right of succession to the throne, as neither his sister H.H. Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, nor his brother Count Christian of Rosenborg, formerly H.H. Prince Christian of Denmark, receive such an allowance, even though in 1971 Count Christian also renounced his rights to the throne, and Princess Elisabeth is still in the line of succession.
