Danish Royal Family

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Danish Royal Family
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The Danish Royal Family includes The Queen of Denmark and her family. All members hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark with the style of His or Her Royal Highness (Hans or Hendes Kongelige Højhed), or His or Her Highness (Hans or Hendes Højhed). The Queen and her siblings belong to the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg. The Queen's descendants all belong agnatically to the House of Monpezat.

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[edit] Main members

The Danish Royal Family includes:

[edit] Extended members

The extended Danish Royal Family which includes people who do not hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark but have close connections to the Queen could be said to include:

[edit] Former Member

The former wife of Queen Margrethe's youngest son Prince Joachim, HRH Princess Alexandra lost the style of Royal Highness and was granted the lower style of Highness upon her divorce in 2005, becoming known as HH Princess Alexandra of Denmark, a style which would cease upon her remarriage. During this time she was still considered a Princess of Denmark and thus a member of the Danish Royal Family. In 2005, her former mother-in-law granted her the additional title of grevinde af Frederiksborg (Countess of Frederiksborg), a personal title which would not be revoked when Alexandra remarried. When she remarried on 3 March 2007, she lost the style of Highness and titular dignity of Princess of Denmark, and was no longer a member of the royal family (although she still receives an allowance, and keeps the title of Her Excellency Countess of Frederiksborg.

[edit] Royal Family of Greece

Main article: Greek Royal Family

The members of the deposed Royal Family of Greece hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark with the qualification of His or Her Royal Highness because George I of Greece was born a Danish prince. So, they are considered members of the Danish Royal Family.

The following are important royal consorts today who were born with the titles of Prince/Princess of Greece and Denmark, although they are not descended from King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie:

[edit] Royal Family of the United Kingdom
Main article: British Royal Family

The following relations of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh may be members of the extended Greek and Danish royal families. All are members of the House of Oldenburg by birth or marriage:

[edit] Royal Family of Norway

Main article: Norwegian Royal Family

Due to the current agnatic descent of all Norwegian royalty from Haakon VII of Norway, who was born a Danish prince and asked to rule a nation similarly to George I of Greece, the Royal Family of Norway has a distant Danish ancestry.

[edit] Counts and Countesses of Rosenborg

There are also Princes who marry without consent of the Danish Monarch. Marrying without consent results in a loss of royal title and they are then entitled (along with their children) to be called Count or Countess of Rosenborg. They, their wives, and their male-line descendants are:

  • HE. Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg (The Queen's cousin and his wife)
  • HE. Count Christian and Countess Anne-Dorthe of Rosenborg (The Queen's cousin and his wife)
    • Countess Camilla, Countess Josephine, and Countess Feodora of Rosenborg (Count Christian's daughters)
  • Count Ulrik and Countess Tove of Rosenborg (The Queen's second cousin and his wife)
    • Count Philip of Rosenborg (Count Ulrik's son)
    • Countess Katharina of Rosenborg (Count Ulrik's daughter)
  • Countess Charlotte of Rosenborg (The Queen's second cousin)
  • Countess Ruth of Rosenborg (The wife of Count Flemming, the Queen's third cousin)
    • Count Axel and Countess Jutta of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
      • Count Carl Johan and Count Alexander of Rosenborg (Count Axel's sons)
      • Countess Julie and Countess Désirée of Rosenborg (Count Axel's daughters)
    • Count Birger and Countess Lynne of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
      • Countess Benedikte of Rosenborg (Count Birger's daughter)
    • Count Carl Johan and Countess Colette of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
      • Countess Caroline and Countess Josefine of Rosenborg (Count Carl Johan's daughters)
    • Countess Désirée of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's daughter)
  • Countess Karin of Rosenborg (Widow of Count Christian, third cousin of the Queen)
    • Count Valdemar of Rosenborg (Count Christian's son)
      • Count Nicolai of Rosenborg (Count Valdemar's son)
      • Countess Marie of Rosenborg (Count Valdemar's daughter)
    • Countess Marina of Rosenborg (Count Christian's daughter)

[edit] Line of succession

Main article: Succession to the Danish Throne

Denmark formerly followed Salic law (meaning that only males could inherit the throne) before the law was changed to primogeniture in 1953, meaning that females could inherit, but only if they had no brothers. The current line of succession is:

  1. HRH The Crown Prince Frederik
  2. HRH Prince Christian
  3. HRH Princess Isabella
  4. HRH Prince Joachim
  5. HH Prince Nikolai
  6. HH Prince Felix
  7. HRH Princess Benedikte2
  8. HH Princess Elisabeth

[edit] Notes

1Prince Richard and his children are accurately styled as His or Her Serene Highness, but they are referred to in Danish courts as Hans or Hendes Højhed (His or Her Highness) as there is no Danish equivalent to Serene Highness.

2Princess Benedikte's children have no succession rights. This is because the marriage consent given to her had very specific provisions; the provisions said that if Benedikte ever became the heiress-presumptive, she and her husband would have to take permanent residence in Denmark and her husband would have to become a naturalizied Danish citizen, and her children would only have succession rights if they applied for naturalization upon reaching adult hood, and took up residence in Denmark: (a) at the time of where he (or she) would become the immediate heir to the throne, and (b) no later than when they reach the age of mandatory schooling under Danish law. Since the children are all well past the mandatory schooling age, they have no succession rights.

Queen Anne-Marie has no succession rights as she became the Queen of Greece. (Her husband, King Constantine II of Greece, was deposed.)[citation needed]

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