Archduchess Zelia
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One of Denmark's best kings!
As Archduchess Zelia mentioned, it appears that King Christian was faithful to Queen Alexandrine. At least, there is no evidence to suggest the opposite.1) Was Christian X faithful to his wife ?
King Christian died in 1947. At the time, his eldest son (Frederik IX) was 48 and Ingrid was 37. Their youngest child, Princess Anne-Marie was born just a year earlier. It was well possible they could have another child, a son. Thus, King Christian could hardly be certain that Knud (or Knud's male heirs) would succeed Frederik. That was a definite possibility, however, as the Royal Ordinance of 1853 wasn't cancelled yet: the Act of Succession which established Cognatic Primogeniture was passed 6 years after King Christian's death, in 1953.2) Did Christian X know that the heir of Danemark would be Margareta and not Ingolf , Prince Knuds'son ?
.3) normally Frederic succeeds a Christian , like now . Ingolf was not a heir's surname but Margarete well, the danes venerate their Queen Margarethe I, (Roskild church)
Apparently they didn't, as they had 3 - Margrethe, Benedikte and Anne-Marie. I assume they would be glad to have at least one more child, a son. There is really no reason why they should have thought they were limited to one-child only.4) Did Ingrid and Frederic IX thought they should have only one child ??
Marsel , I appreciate your 4 answers.
You are right later princes may change their names when they are kings : like Georges VI of GB and Haakon VII of Norway.
Hot thanks to you and kind regards - Maria-Olivia.
Is the name of Prince Knud's second son Chistian ?
Another Swedish-Russian bloodline ties via the Saxe-Weimar/Prussian line:
Paul I > Maria Pavlova > Marie of Saxe-Weimar > Frederick Charles of Prussia > Louise Margaret of Prussia > Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden
https://www.bt.dk/royale/for-130-aa...tian-var-til-en-helt-saerlig-studentereksamen
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Today it's 130 years ago the first high school student in the DRF was up for the final examination. Prince Christian.
That happened at Metropolitanskolen in Copenhagen.
Normally it's the students who have the jitters up to and under such an examination, but on that day it were the censors!
Because present were not only Prince Christian. But his father and mother as well, the King Christian IX, the Minister of War, the Bishop of Zealand, all the other teachers at the school, as well as numerous invited people!
But Prince Christian made it, he passed with "an exceedingly beautiful performance" here in physics (science).
His mother, then Crown Princess Louise said: "I can assure that many difficult questions were asked that I couldn't answer myself."
One of the censors later said to the conservative newspaper, Berlingske Tidende: "On this day I could feel more symptoms of examination-fever, than the student."
Prince Christian wore his high school graduate after having passed, as you can see in the first photo.
But that was lost and for his high school reunion in 1924 he wore one made from paper, as you can see in the second photo.
I think it's safe to say Prince Christian didn't have a high school Latin-teacher like this one!
You need not understand Danish in order to get the gist:
Their old teacher is back... (Scroll forward to 2.00 for the examination of your worst nightmare.)
From 1947 to 1953 Knud was known as Heir Presumptive (his official title was His Royal Highness The Hereditary Prince of Denmark).
King Christian died in 1947. At the time, his eldest son (Frederik IX) was 48 and Ingrid was 37. Their youngest child, Princess Anne-Marie was born just a year earlier. It was well possible they could have another child, a son. Thus, King Christian could hardly be certain that Knud (or Knud's male heirs) would succeed Frederik. That was a definite possibility, however, as the Royal Ordinance of 1853 wasn't cancelled yet: the Act of Succession which established Cognatic Primogeniture was passed 6 years after King Christian's death, in 1953.
Prince Ingolf was born in 1940, two months before Queen Margrethe. There was a definite possibility the baby Princess Ingrid was expecting would be a boy. There were also chances Frederik would welcome sons in future, so there was really no reason why Knud had to name his son Christian or Frederik. Moreover, it is possible that the names were 'reserved' for the possible sons of the Crown Prince.
Yet that did not hinder Knud from giving his second son the "reserved" name Christian (I agree that he should not have done so).
There was no "reserved" names in the Danish Royal Family since most sons and grandsons of the Glücksburg kings were named Christian or Frederik or in most cases both. Knud himself, his sons, his brother, his father, all his uncles, his grandfather and one of his grandfather's brothers all carried both names.