| Princess Thyra | |
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| Crown Princess of Hanover Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale |
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| Spouse | Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover |
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| Marie Louise, Princess Maximilian of Baden Prince George William Alexandra, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princess Olga Prince Christian Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick |
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| House | House of Hanover House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg |
| Father | Christian IX of Denmark |
| Mother | Louise of Hesse-Kassel |
| Born | 29 September 1853 Yellow Palace, Copenhagen |
| Died | 26 February 1933 (aged 79) Gmunden, Austria |
Princess Thyra of Denmark (Thyra Amelie Caroline Charlotte Anne; Danish: Thyra Amalie Caroline Charlotte Anna; Thyra: Danish pronunciation: [ˈtuːʁə]; Copenhagen, 29 September 1853 – Gmunden, 26 February 1933) was the youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
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Thyra was the sister of Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, George I of Greece and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia. Thyra was an attractive and gentle young woman, with dark hair and dark blue eyes. Queen Louise wanted her youngest daughter to make a good marriage as her elder daughters had. Thyra's first suitor was King Willem III of the Netherlands, but as he was thirty six years older than she was, she rejected him. He later married Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Their daughter became Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her descendants sit on the throne of the Netherlands.
In her youth, Thyra had fallen in love with Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, a Lieutenant in the Cavalry, which resulted in a pregnancy.[1] Her brother George I of Greece suggested that she have the baby in Athens to avoid scandal; the Danish press was told Thyra had been taken ill with jaundice.[1] She gave birth to a girl, Maria, on 8 November 1871 at Schloss Glücksburg, who was adopted by Rasmus and Anne Marie Jørgensen of Odense shortly after birth and renamed Kate; she married in 1902 Frode Pløyen-Holstein and died in 1964.[2] Marcher killed himself on 4 January 1872 after a confrontation with the King.[3]
On 21 December/22 December 1878 in Copenhagen, she married Crown Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in Copenhagen. Ernst Augustus was eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.
Thanks to her marriage, Thyra became Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg and member of the British Royal; although she was styled The Crown Princess of Hanover, in fact, she was the titular Queen Consort of Hanover because both her husband and late father-in-law (who died six months before her marriage) never renounced or abdicated his rights over the anexed Kingdom of Hanover.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland had six children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland | 11 October 1879 | 31 January 1948 | married Prince Maximilian of Baden (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929); had issue |
| Prince George William of Hanover and Cumberland | 28 October 1880 | 20 May 1912 | |
| Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland | 29 September 1882 | 30 August 1963 | married Friedrich Franz IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (9 April 1882 – 17 November 1945) |
| Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland | 11 July 1884 | 21 September 1958 | |
| Prince Christian of Hanover and Cumberland | 4 July 1885 | 3 September 1901 | |
| Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick | 17 November 1887 | 30 January 1953 | married Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia (13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) |
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Princess Thyra of Denmark
Cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg
Born: 29 September 1853 Died: 26 February 1933 |
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| Preceded by Marie of Saxe-Altenburg |
— TITULAR — Queen consort of Hanover 22 December 1878 – 14 November 1923 Reason for succession failure: Hanover annexed by Prussia in 1866 |
Succeeded by Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia |