Weddings

Marriages of previous Crown Princes and Heirs Apparent to the House of Glücksborg.

The Danish monarchy can be traced back to King Gorm the Old, who ruled in the 10th century. The two most prominent lineages are the House of Oldenborg and the House of Glücksborg. The first King of the House of Oldenborg acceded the throne in 1448.  The last of this line was King Frederik VII,  who had no direct heir to succeed him on the throne. In 1863 the first King of the House of Glücksborg ascended the throne, and the current Royal Family are direct descendants of this line.

King Frederik VIII and Queen Lovisa
The first Crown Prince of the House of Glücksborg was the eldest son of King Christian IX and Queen Louise. He was Crown Prince Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl, who married Princess Lovisa Josephina Eugenia of Sweden and Norway in the Royal Palace Chapel in Stockholm on 28 July 1869. The Princess was the only child of King Karl XV and Queen Anna Lovisa, Princess of the Netherlands.

The Crown Prince and Princess Lovisa had become engaged on 15 July the previous year at Bäckaskog in Skåne. In 1906 King Christian IX died and the Crown Prince ascended the throne as Frederik VIII.

King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine
The marriage of Prince Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm eldest son of King Frederik VIII and Queen Lovisa, to Princess Alexandrine Auguste, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, took place in Cannes, southern France on 26 April 1898.

The wedding was neither that of a Crown Prince nor an Heir Apparent, as at that time Prince Christian had not yet become Crown Prince. The Prince assumed this title on the death of his grandfather, King Christian IX in 1906. On the death of King Frederik VIII in 1912, Crown Prince Christian ascended the throne as King Christian X.

King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid
The second marriage of a Crown Prince of the House of Glücksborg was on 24 May 1935 when Crown Prince Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg married Princess Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margaretha of Sweden, in Stockholm’s Storkyrka (Cathedral).

The Princess was the daughter of the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and the English Princess, Margaret of Connaught. The engagement had been announced in Stockholm in March, a few months before the wedding. King Christian X died in 1947 and was succeeded by his son, King Frederik IX.

Queen Margrethe and the Prince Consort
The eldest daughter of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid, the Heir Apparent, Princess Margrethe Alexandrine Thorhildur Ingrid, was the third in the line. Her engagement to the French aristocrat, Henri-Marie-Jean-André Count de Laborde de Monpezat was announced on 5 October 1966.

The wedding took place in Holmens Kirke (the Naval Church) on 10 June 1967. On the death of her father, Frederik IX on 14 January 1972, the Heir Apparent ascended the throne as HM Queen Margrethe II.

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