Princess Isabella of Denmark

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Princess Isabella of Denmark
Born Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe
21 April 2007(2007-04-21) (&&&&&&&&&&&&04161 yr 1 mo)
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Title Princess of Denmark,
Countess of Monpezat
Parents Crown Prince Frederik
Crown Princess Mary
Danish Royal Family
Other branches

Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Danish: Prinsesse Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe til Danmark, komtesse af Monpezat; born 21 April 2007) is a member of the Danish Royal Family. She is the daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, the Australian-born Crown Princess Mary.

She is the fourth grandchild and only granddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark. She is the first girl born into the Danish Royal House since the birth of Queen Anne-Marie of Greece in 1946.

The infant princess is third in line to the Danish throne, after her father and her older brother, Prince Christian. Until her name was announced at her christening, she was being referred to as "Lillepigen" by her parents and the Danish media. [1][2][3] an affectionate nickname meaning 'the little girl'.

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[edit] Birth

The princess was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, at 4:02pm. She was healthy with an apgar score of 10 (out of 10) after 1 minute. At birth, she weighed 3.35 kg (7.4 lb) and measured 50 cm (19.6 ins). At noon on 22 April, a 21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen Naval Base in Copenhagen and from Kronborg Castle in North Zealand to mark the arrival of a royal child.

The infant princess' birth coincided with the 60th anniversary of the ascension to the Danish throne of of her great-grandfather, Frederik IX and she shares the same birthday as her cousin, HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

[edit] Christening

Isabella's christening took place on 1 July 2007, at the chapel of Fredensborg Palace. She wore the same christening gown her older brother Prince Christian wore at his christening the year before, which Glücksborg princes and princesses in the main line have worn since the christening of Christian X in 1870. Her name was announced as Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe. Her godparents are Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering and Marie Louise Skeel. [4]

She was named:

  • Isabella is the Italian form of the Latinate name which has a biblical etymology, with many variants in different languages. Crown Princess Mary's middle name is Elizabeth after her maternal grandmother, however there is no indication this was a factor in the choice. Frederik and Mary told the media on the day of the christening they had decided on it two weeks beforehand, after looking at historical royal Danish names. They chose the birth name of King Christian II's queen-consort Isabella of Austria, the sister of Emperor Charles V[5]. The name is the 21st most popular name among Danish girls[6].
  • Henrietta is for Crown Princess Mary's late mother, Henrietta Donaldson, who died in 1997 from complications following heart surgery.
  • Ingrid is for Crown Prince Frederik's late maternal grandmother, Queen Ingrid, who died in November 2000.
  • Margrethe is for Princess Isabella's paternal grandmother, Queen Margrethe of Denmark.


The princess accompanied her parents to New York on 17-21 September 2007 on a visit to promote Denmark's "Creative Nation" initiative, according to court spokeswoman Lis M. Frederiksen, because Crown Princess Mary was still breastfeeding Princess Isabella.[7]

On 20 December 2007, as he had done the previous year for Prince Christian, Per Stig Møller, Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs, formally wrote and signed a hand-written document adding Princess Isabella as an official heir to the Danish throne in the line of succession. The princess's full name, dates of birth and christening, and the names of her godparents were recorded as dictated by the Royal Law of 1799.[8][9]

[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms

Styles of
Princess Isabella of Denmark
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

[edit] Title

Her official title in Danish is Hendes Kongelige Højhed Prinsesse Isabella til Danmark, Komtesse af Monpezat

[edit] Ancestry

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fakta om lillepigen www.fyn.dk citing Fyens Stiftstidende (Danish)
  2. ^ Hun hedder "Lillepigen" Berlingske Tidende (Danish)
  3. ^ "Princess Mary shows off daughter", Herald Sun, 2007-04-23. Retrieved on 2007-04-27. 
  4. ^ "Godparents to Her Royal Highness the Princess", Kronprinsparret.dk, 2007-06-01. Retrieved on 2007-06-01. 
  5. ^ "Royal Surprise", Denmark.dk, 2007-07-02. Retrieved on 2007-07-06. 
  6. ^ "Danish Royal Family", About.com: Go Australia, 2007-07-02. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. 
  7. ^ "Prins Christian alene hjemme", Billed-Bladet.dk, 2007-08-23. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. 
  8. ^ Isabella klar til at regere. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
  9. ^ Official registration of Isabelle as Heir to the Danish throne. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
  10. ^ (Danish)Kongehuset - Aktuelt - Nyheder

[edit] External links

Princess Isabella of Denmark
House of Laborde-Monpezat
Born: 21 April 2007
Danish royalty
Preceded by
Prince Christian of Denmark		 Line of succession to the Danish throne
3rd position		 Succeeded by
Prince Joachim of Denmark
Line of succession to the British throne