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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 children and male-line descendants belong agnatically to the family House of Monpezat and have been given the addition title Count(ess) of Monpezat.

The Danish Royal Family enjoys remarkably high approval ratings in Denmark, possibly ranging from somewhere between 80 to 90 percent.[1][2]

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Main members

The Danish Royal Family includes:

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:

Former member

The former wife of Queen Margrethe's youngest son Prince Joachim, 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 forfeited if 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).

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 their male line ancestor, George I of Greece, was born a Danish prince and, until 1953, his dynastic male-line descendants remained in Denmark's line of hereditary succession. So, they are members of the Danish Royal Family, although the "Royal" in their style derives from their historical association with the Greek monarchy, since normally Denmark only accords it to the Danish monarch's children.

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:

Royal Family of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Main articles: British Royal Family and Canadian Royal Family

The following relations of The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh may be members of the extended Greek and Danish royal families. However, unlike members of the Greek and Norwegian branches, Prince Philip, as the senior dynast of this branch, allegedly renounced (upon taking British citizenship) not only his right to succeed to the Greek throne, but discontinued use of his title Prince of Denmark (as well as Prince of Greece). Nonetheless, all are members of the House of Oldenburg by agnatic descent or marriage:

Royal Family of Norway

Main article: Norwegian Royal Family

The Royal Family of Norway descends in the legitimate male line from Frederick VIII of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II's great-grandfather. Haakon VII of Norway, who was born Prince Carl of Denmark as Frederick VIII's younger son, was invited to reign over another nation (like George I of Greece). As with the Greek branch's descendants, members of the Norwegian line no longer have succession rights to the Danish crown, but unlike the Greek dynasts they discontinued use of Danish royal titles upon mounting their foreign throne in 1905.

Counts and Countesses of Rosenborg

There are also Danish princes who marry without consent of the Danish monarch. Marrying without consent results in loss of dynastic rights, including royal title.[3] The ex-dynasts are then usually accorded the hereditary title "Count of Rosenborg". They, their wives, and their legitimate male-line descendants are:

  • Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg (The Queen's cousin and his wife)
  • 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)

Line of succession

Main article: Line of succession to the Danish throne

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

  1. The Crown Prince Frederik
  2. Prince Christian
  3. Princess Isabella
  4. Prince Joachim
  5. Prince Nikolai
  6. Prince Felix
  7. Prince Henrik
  8. Princess Benedikte
  9. Princess Elisabeth

Notes

1Prince Richard and his children are historically entitled to the style His or Her Serene Highness, but they are referred to at the Danish court as Hans or Hendes Højhed (His or Her Highness) as there is no Danish equivalent to Serene Highness.[3]

2Princess Benedikte's children have no succession rights. This is because the marriage consent given to her had very specific provisions; 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 naturalized Danish citizen, and her children would only have succession rights if they had applied for naturalization upon reaching adulthood, and taken up residence in Denmark: (a) at the time of becoming the immediate heir to the throne, and (b) no later than when they reached the age of mandatory schooling under Danish law. Since the children continued to be educated in Germany well past the mandatory schooling age, they are deemed to no longer have succession rights.[3]

Queen Anne-Marie has no succession rights because the permission granted for her marriage stipulated that she renounced her claim to the Danish throne upon becoming Queen Consort of the Hellenes. (Her husband, King Constantine II of Greece, was deposed.)[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=34674
  2. ^ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/09/1084041267050.html
  3. ^ a b c Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter (1999-02-02). "Conditional Consent, Dynastic Rights and the Danish Law of Succession". Hoelseth's Royal Corner. Dag Trygsland Hoelseth. http://www.geocities.com/dagtho/dk-suc-law.html. Retrieved 2008-08-03. 

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