#Prince Knud of Denmark

[wytchisle]

House Baratheon and Stormlands Aesthetic

Samuel John Carter - Legend of St. Hubert Jean Clouet - Francis I, King of France, ca. 1527 - 30 Knud Baade - The Ship "Fortuna". 1870 François Gérard - Portrait of Mary Nisbet. 1803 Unknown Master - White Hart from ‘ The Wilton Diptych’ ca. 1395-99 Domenico Brusasorzi - Portrait of Pase Guarienti. ca. 16th cen Unknown artist Edmund Leighton - Stitching the Standard. 1911 Georges Frédéric Rotig - Fighting Stags by Moonlight. 1900 Orazio Gentileschi - The Lute Player. ca. 1612-15 Thomas Hill - Deer Watering. ca. 1872 Jules Salles-Wagner - Romeo and Juliet. by 1898 Ivan Aivazovsky - Storm at Sea Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner - Three Monks Drinking Beer. 1885 Caravaggio - The Cardsharps. ca. 1594 Salomon de Bray - Judith with the Head of Holofernes. 1636 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez - Head of a Buck. 1634 Michael Handt - Study on Ivan Sishkin 'Tickets' 1881 Artist unknown Carolina Carlesimo��- Angelica. 1891 French School - Equestrian Portrait of Marie de Medici Diego Velázquez - Three Musicians. 1618 Justus Sustermans - Portrait of Prince Valdemar Christian of Denmark. ca. 1600s Jules Adolphe Goupil - An Admiring Glance. before 1883

[loiladadiani]

King Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 1870 – 1947); King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947

I want to place this remarkable individual within the context of the many royal families we discuss in this blog. He had quite an eventful and successful reign, including transitioning his country into a constitutional monarchy, but this post is just about (some) of his relatives.

He was a grandson of Christian IX and the son of the future Frederick VIII. His brother was the future Hakoon VII of Norway. His paternal aunts were Dagmar (Empress Maria Feodorovna) and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom. King George V, Queen Maud, and Tsar Nicholas II were his first cousins. Christian X's mother was Lovisa of Sweden.

He was raised strictly in a palace part of the Amelienborg Palace complex. He received a military education and studied at the Officers Academy.

Christian initially loved Princess Marguerite of Orleans, but his feelings were not returned, so he married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg Schwerin. Alexandrine's maternal line was Romanov...her mother, Anastasia, was the daughter of Nicholas I's younger son, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich. They had two sons: Prince Frederick (1899–1972), later King Frederick IX of Denmark and Prince Knud (1900–1976)

In case you are wondering, he was 6 feet 7 inches tall.

What a dynasty Christian IX and Queen Louise gave to the world!

[steliosagapitos]

~ "A diamond and sapphire tiara, 1890s, with a Royal provenance, each foliate element centred by a cabochon sapphire, flanked by a floral motif, set with old cut diamonds, gold and silver mounts. The cabochon sapphires can be swapped out for turquoise cabochons. The tiara belonged to Princess Thyra, daughter of King Frederik VIII and Queen Lovisa of Denmark. -Her siblings were King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, and Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, among others- Princess Thyra never married and left the tiara to her niece, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, who chose to marry her first cousin, Prince Knud, the younger brother of King Frederik IX Their only child was Princess Elisabeth, receiving the tiara from her mother in the 1960s. She was a first cousin of Queen Margarethe II and wore it quite often at state functions and in 2004 at the wedding of crown prince Frederik and Mary." ~

[princessvictoriamelita]

Mecklenburg-Schwerin Grand Ducal Family dining in 1904.

From left to right: Grand Duke Frederick Francis IV, Duchess Cecilie, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, Prince Knud of Denmark, Prince Frederick of Denmark, Dowager Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Alexandra and unknown men.

[royalmotherhood]

Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, nee Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, with her husband, King Christian X of Denmark, with her two sons, Frederick and Knud. 

[ladysophy]

The young Danish-Prussian royal families. Mid-1900s.

From top left: Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Alexandrine of Denmark.

From bottom left: Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, Prince Knud of Denmark, Prince Frederick of Denmark and Prince Christian of Denmark.

[old-danish-royal-family]

The royal family, sometime during the summer of 1941.

[shakespearenews]

The unfortunate Frederik, far from having a salad set before him by a lovely wife, was killed in Moravia in 1602 attempting to separate two dueling comrades-in-arms: for him, oblivion seemed inevitable. But in London that same year 1602, a new play was being performed about a Danish prince. The playwright had needed names for two characters who were plotting the prince’s death, and he recalled a high-profile diplomatic mission from the King of Denmark to the Queen of England 10 years earlier, in 1592. 

Two young courtiers on that mission, both relatives of Tycho Brahe, had made spectacles of themselves in the taverns and fleshpots of London, and the unintended consequence of their carousing was immortality, though of a dubious kind: 21-year-old Frederik Rosenkrantz and his friend Knud Gyldenstierne had somehow attracted the attention of William Shakespeare and, in the play Hamlet, yielded up their surnames to posterity as bywords for bantering fecklessness and sycophantic treachery.

[gabriellademonaco]

Again this year we have taken our four children on an adventure in Denmark with the Royal Yacht Dannebrog. Today we tried our hand at blowing glass at the working workshop Backhaus-Brown & Glassmedjen, and then we also visited the carpentry workshop Egeværk. We were also past the polar scientist Knud Rasmussen’s home. My husband could tell me many stories about the children. It was a lovely day. Photo: H.R.H The Crown Princess © It is the third year in a row that the Crown Prince Family sailing to various places in Denmark, and today they visited the carpentry workshop Egeværk, the glass plastery Backhaus-Brown & Glassmedjen and the polar scientist Knud Rasmussen’s House in Hundested.

[everythingroyalty]

Hi! I've just gotten into the Danes and have a few questions. Do you think Prince Joachim's children will have public weddings? Since, most likely, Prince Joachim's grandkids won't be prince/princess, will they be a count/countess at birth? Can his kids be count/countess of x instead of Monpezat? Also why doesn't the DRF have a long succession like the BRF? Will his children eventually not be in the line of succession? Sorry it's long!

As for the second part of your question: As you say, it’s almost set in stone that Joachim’s grandchildren won’t be princes and princesses – Denmark just isn’t big enough to have that many royals – so these additional titles can serve the way Rosenborg did for Knud’s boys back in the day. That’s the funky thing about it: No one will end up title-less. (Or, well… but I’ll get back to that.)

Here’s what I think could happen: When Joachim’s boys (and maybe even Vincent) seek permission to marry, it’ll be given to them on the condition that they renounce their children’s (royal) titles (and for Joachim’s kids, maybe even their own along with it) and rights to succession.

It’s a bit trickier with Athena (and possibly also Josephine). For god knows what reason, women are not allowed to pass the Monpezat titles on. If that sounds old-fashioned, it’s because it is. The absolute primogeniture had even been passed when the title was created, so I can’t think of any logical reason for them to make it patrilineal. It does, however, at this point mean that the only title Athena has a (theoretical) possibility of passing on is her royal title (I’ve elaborated a bit more on that here – essentially: since we haven’t been in a situation before where women are equal to men in terms of succession, there are a lot of grey areas regarding the (royal) titles and whether or not women are allowed to pass them on). 

The Act of Succession from 1953 where only descendants of King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine became eligible for succession slimmed down the line of succession considerably. Prior to that change, we had a massive line of succession (not unlike the BRF’s) because Christian IX and Frederik VIII both had a lot of children. Since then, consent of marriages have slimmed it even further down – Benedikte was given consent to her marriage on the condition that she had her kids educated in Denmark (similar to the way they were supposed to do it Sweden) and Anne-Marie was given consent to her marriage on the condition that she renounced her children’s rights to succession.

As for the weddings, that’s difficult to tell. The vast majority of all Danes are generally into the DRF so I think the interest would be there and then, I suppose, it’d be a matter of whether they themselves would want their weddings to be public.

[thewales-family]

Princess Isabella of Denmark, Princess Josephine of Denmark, Prince Christian of Denmark and Prince Vincent of Denmark, taken by their mother, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, pose for a picture, as they visit the carpentry workshop Egeværk, the glass plastery Backhaus-Brown & Glassmedjen and the polar scientist Knud Rasmussen's House in Hundesten, Denmark -August 5th 2019.

📷 : Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

[loiladadiani]

Photographs: 1 and 2: Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 3. Alexandrine and Christian X; 4: From left to right, Alexandrine with her son Frederick on her lap, Christian X, Alexandrine's mother Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna (Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), Princess Alexandra of Hanover (wife of Alexandrine's brother, sitting next to her: Frederick Francis IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 5: The Danish Royal Family: Queen Alexandrine, King Christian X and their 2 children: Prince Frederick and Prince Knud; 6. From left to right: Prince Knud, Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Cecilie, Crown Princess of Germany, Christian X with his son Frederick standing in front of him, Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Grand Duke Frederick Francis IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879 – 1952) was the elder child and first daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, a grandchild of Nicholas I (and hence the Romanov connection, which will appear at other junctions). Alexandrine was Queen of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and Queen of Iceland from 1918 to 1944 as the spouse of King Christian X.

Alexandrine younger siblings were: Her only brother, Duke Frederick Francis, who in 1897 succeeded their father as Fredrick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and her only sister Duchess Cecilie, who married the German Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of German Emperor William II (but never got to reign.) So both Alexandrine and Cecilie's ancestry was mostly German but being great-granddaughters of Nicholas I (through their mother), there were certainly Romanovs (we all know that by the twentieth century the Romanovs were mostly of German descent.) Queen Alexandrine and King Christian X had two children, Prince Frederik (IX) and Prince Knud (later hereditary prince).

Queen Alexandrine played the piano to an almost professional standard. She was of a shy disposition and had difficulty getting used to public attention during her first years as queen. She preferred to avoid the media limelight but performed her functions in an exemplary manner. In the home, she was responsible for her two boys' education. Queen Alexandrine undertook extensive charity work until her death and was an avid golf player and photographer who also produced needlework to a high standard.

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In History . 8 July 1972 . Prince Richard married Miss Birgitte Eva van Deurs . . ◼ Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester; born 26 August 1944 is the youngest grandchild of King George V & Queen Mary. He succeeded to the dukedom of Gloucester, as the second Duke, upon his father's death in 1974 & is currently 24th in line to the British throne, & the first not descended from King George VI. He is also the senior male line descendant of Queen Victoria. . ◼ Birgitte was born Birgitte Eva Henriksen, in Odense, Denmark on 20 June 1946, is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Knud Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, & his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She took her mother's ancestral name van Deurs on 15 January 1966, when her parents separated. She moved to Cambridge, England and also worked at the Danish Embassy in London. . ◼ Their marriage took place on 8 July 1972 at St Andrew's Church, Barnwell, Northamptonshire. The bride's wedding dress was designed by Norman Hartnell. At that time, she was styled Her Royal Highness Princess Richard of Gloucester. Six weeks after their wedding, Prince Richard's elder brother, Prince William, was killed in a flying accident. Prince Richard unexpectedly became heir apparent to the dukedom & upon his father's death in 1974, the couple became the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. . They have three children; . ▪ Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, born 24 October 1974 . ▪ Lady Davina Lewis, born 19 November 1977 . ▪ Lady Rose Gilman, born 1 March 1980. . . The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's official residence is at Kensington Palace in London. They have leased their private home, Barnwell Manor, since 1994. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1972 #RoyalWedding #D8Jul #PrinceRichard #DukeofGloucester #PrinceRichardDukeofGloucester #BirgitteDuchessofGloucester #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory (at Northamptonshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqpeaigCJJ/?igshid=10ehw9l4og6t5

[princessvictoriamelita]

Royal Engagement in 1932.

Prince Knud of Denmark and his fiancée Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark with her parents, Prince and Princess Harald, and siblings, Princess Feodora, Princess Alexandrine-Louise, Prince Gorm and Prince Oluf.

Knud and Caroline-Mathilde were first cousins. Their fathers were brothers.

[perelka-l]

LOL. I might be showing my age. AARs are "After Action Reports." Essentially, you write down what happened in your playthrough, often in the POV of your character or a courtier. There are quite a number on the ParadoxPlaza forums! There are some pretty good quality ones too, both of the serious and comedic varieties. Some "Best AAR" posts on r/CrusaderKings have some good suggestions if you want to see how they work. (1/?)

By far my favorite still has to be a CK1 AAR called "Knud Knýtling, Prince of Denmark." (The sarcastic humor there is on point. Also the author plays with genre. It's a work of art.) But yeah, AARs are not as popular as YouTube streaming these days. (2/?)

CK2 is a complicated game! It takes awhile to kinda get things to work. (I've played 100+ hours and, uh, having problems loading my troops to boats is still a thing.) Italy's always a great place to start! I united Italy in one of my first games until I was screwed over by gavelkind and thus started a 50 year feud with my hated half-brother Giovanni. (He just wouldn't DIE, the bastard.) (3/?)

I waited for the continuation but nothing came, so I’m replying now ;w;

And ah, I see what you mean now! I suppose those were indeed popular once upon a time (I think I saw people doing that with the Sims?), now not so much. I never was much into streaming nor reading this kind of stuff, takes a loong time, but some find it enjoyable ’w’

Also arghhh the cursed gavelkind... I still can’t get rid of this one TuT 

I still struggle with uniting Italy partly because of this, partly because a part is under HRE’s control (eeep!) and... Malta... Oh Malta... I managed to create Kingdom of Italy, but the Gavelkind happened and title fell out of my hands, and my current King keeps on warring with Malta! Except... Every time they win, the pope says that ACTUALLY Malta needs Knights! And so the land is taken away from the King and taken over by the Knights! And the cycle begins anew... I think we are on... 20th war for Malta? It’s amusing to watch P:

And arghhh traitorous siblings! Especially with gavelkind!!

On a side note, I found a mode that adds Nart traits, like chakra natures and dojutsu and all that, so that would make any potential future play spicier! Either way, I will check it out when I get my PC back. 

Also, I wonder what DLCs I’d need to make any Uchiha playthroughs spicy :3c I have Way of Life, Sunset Invasion and Sword of Islam. I guess Monks and Mystics would make thing fun! Imagine, Uchiha and satanic orgies? That would fit them ;P Or Old Gods but that’s me being excited over old old stuff.

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This handsome monarch is King Christian X of Denmark with his sons Crown Prince Frederick and Prince Knud.