Prince Carl (later Haakon VII of Norway)
Princess Louise
Prince Harald
Princess Ingeborg
Princess Thyra
Prince Gustav
Princess Dagmar
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hamburg, Germany
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| Reign | 29 January 1906-14 May 1912 |
| Predecessor | Christian IX |
| Successor | Christian X |
| Consort | Lovisa of Sweden |
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| Christian X Prince Carl (later Haakon VII of Norway) Princess Louise Prince Harald Princess Ingeborg Princess Thyra Prince Gustav Princess Dagmar |
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| Royal house | House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg |
| Father | Christian IX of Denmark |
| Mother | Louise of Hesse-Kassel |
| Born | June 3, 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | May 14, 1912 (aged 68) Hamburg, Germany |
| Burial | Roskilde Cathedral |
Frederik VIII (Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl) (3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912.
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He was the eldest son of King Christian IX and his wife, Denmark's heiress, Louise of Hesse - and was born in Copenhagen. As Crown Prince of Denmark he formally took part in the war of 1864 against Austria and Prussia, and subsequently assisted his father in the duties of government. He became king of Denmark on Christian's death in January 1906.
In many ways Frederik VIII was a liberal ruler who was much more favorable to the new parliamentarian system than his father had been. Because of his very late accession to the throne he only got few years to show his ability and he was weakened by ill health.
On his return journey from a trip to France, King Frederik made a short stop in Hamburg, staying at the Hotel Hamburger Hof. The evening of his arrival, Frederik (incognito) took a walk on the Jungfernstieg. While walking he became faint and collapsed on a park bench and died. He was discovered by a police officer who took him to a Hafen hospital where he was pronounced dead. His cause of death was announced as a paralysis-attack. He was interred with other members of the Danish royal family in Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen.
The royal families of Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Luxembourg are descended from King Frederik VIII. Denmark comes naturally, Norway's family goes through the line of his son, Prince Carl, and the families of Belgium and Luxembourg are descended from his daughter, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.
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| Reference style | His Majesty |
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| Spoken style | Your Majesty |
| Alternative style | Sire |
Louise of Hesse wanted her eldest son married as well as her two daughters, Alexandra and Dagmar had. Queen Victoria had two yet unmarried daughters, Princess Helena and Princess Louise, and Louise tried to marry Frederik to one of them. However, the British Queen didn't want her daughters to marry the heirs to foreign crowns, as this would force them to live abroad. She preferred German princes who could establish homes in the U.K. In addition, Victoria had always been pro-German and another Danish alliance (Frederik's sister, Alexandra, had married Victoria's eldest son, the Prince of Wales), would not have been in line with her German interests.
In July 1868, Frederik became engaged to the 17-year-old only daughter of Charles XV of Sweden, Lovisa of Sweden. Princess Lovisa's family was related by marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte. She belonged to the Bernadotte dynasty, which had ruled in Sweden since 1818, when the founder, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals, was elected King of Sweden with the name of Charles XIV of Sweden. He married Desiree Clary, who had once been engaged to the French Emperor. Charles XIV's son, Oscar I, married Josephine of Leuchtenberg, grandddaughter of Napoleon's first wife, the Empress Josephine. King Oscar I and Queen Josephine were Princess Lovisa's paternal grandparents.
Crown Prince Frederik and Lovisa of Sweden married in Stockholm on 28 July 1869. They had four sons and four daughters:
Frederick VIII was the 1,065th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 806th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1896 and the 152nd Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.
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Frederick VIII
Cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg
Born: June 3 1843 Died: May 14 1912 |
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| Preceded by Christian IX |
King of Denmark 1906-1912 |
Succeeded by Christian X |
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