Danish royal family

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Prince Henrik, Prince Joachim and Princess Isabella

The Danish royal family is the

monarch of Denmark.[1] While some members of the Danish royal family hold the title of Prince(ss) of Denmark, descendants of Margrethe II additionally bear the title Count(ess) of Monpezat
. Children of the monarch are accorded the style of His/Her Royal Highness. The King and Queen are styled Majesty.

Margrethe II, her siblings and her descendants belong to the

Laborde de Monpezat family, and were given the concurrent title Count/Countess of Monpezat by royal decree on 30 April 2008.[2]

The Danish royal family receives remarkably high approval ratings in Denmark, ranging between 82% and 92%.[3][4]

Main members

The Danish royal family includes:

Family tree of members

Queen Ingrid
Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes
Greek royal family*
The KingThe QueenAlexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
(div. 2005)		Prince JoachimPrincess Marie
The Crown Prince
Princess IsabellaPrince VincentPrincess JosephineCount NikolaiCount FelixCount HenrikCountess Athena
Note

* Extended members include the Greek royal family

Members of the extended royal family

Royal family of Greece

Main article: Greek royal family

Most of the members of the deposed royal family of Greece hold the title of Prince or Princess of Greece and Denmark with the qualification of His or Her Highness, pursuant to the Royal Cabinet Order of 1774 and as

King Christian IX of Denmark
, was (and remained) a "Prince of Denmark" prior to his accession to the throne of Greece in 1863. Until 1953, his dynastic male-line descendants remained in Denmark's order succession. However, no Danish act has revoked usage of the princely title for these descendants, neither for those living in 1953, nor for those born subsequently or who have since married into the dynasty.

There are three members of the Greek royal family who are not known to bear the title of Prince/ss of Denmark with the qualification of His/Her Highness.[5][6][7]

The following, consorts of royal monarchs today, 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 Norway

Main article: Norwegian royal family

The

Haakon VII of Norway, who was born Prince Carl of Denmark as Frederik VIII's younger son, was, like his uncle, George I of Greece, invited to reign
over another nation. 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 dynasties, they discontinued use of Danish royal titles upon ascending to the Norwegian throne in 1905.

Counts and countesses of Monpezat

On 30 April 2008, the Queen of Denmark granted to her two sons, Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim, and their legitimate patrilineal descendants of both sexes the hereditary title "Count of Monpezat". The title is based on the French title "Comte de Laborde de Monpezat" which was used by their father Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark.

On 29 September 2022, it was announced that from 1 January 2023, the titles of Prince and Princess of Denmark, and style of

Athena of Monpezat".[8]
All four grandchildren maintain their places in the order of succession to the throne.

Counts and countesses of Rosenborg

Danish princes who marry without the consent of the Danish monarch lose their succession rights, as do their descendants.[9] They are then usually accorded the hereditary title "Count of Rosenborg". They are entitled to the style "His/Her Excellency". They and their legitimate male-line descendants are:[10]

Counts and countesses of Samsøe

The

Danish Kings. With a place in the 1st Class No. 13, they are entitled to the style "His/Her Excellency".[12]

Line of succession

Main article: Succession to the Danish throne
Then-prince (now crown prince) Christian in 2021.

The first law governing the succession to the Danish throne as a hereditary monarchy was Kongeloven (Lex Regia), enacted on 14 November 1665, and published in 1709.

male line
.

As for the

Schleswig (a Danish fief), Holstein and Lauenburg (German fiefs) were joined in personal union
with the Kingdom of Denmark.

This difference caused problems when

agnatic primogeniture, which was accepted by the Parliament. Even after the loss of the duchies in the Second Schleswig War of 1864, the style of the Danish monarchs included references to the duchies until the style was shortened in 1972 on the accession of Margrethe II
.

Problems emerged again when

absolute primogeniture. This had no immediate effect on the line of succession, and the first person affected by the 2009 amendment was Prince Vincent, who on his birth in 2011 would have otherwise been ahead of his older sister Princess Isabella in the succession. As of 2024
the line of succession is:

  1. Crown Prince Christian
  2. Princess Isabella
  3. Prince Vincent
  4. Princess Josephine
  5. Prince Joachim
  6. Count Nikolai
  7. Count Felix
  8. Count Henrik
  9. Countess Athena
  10. Princess Benedikte

Privileges and restrictions

Following the transformation of Denmark's monarchy from elective (at least theoretically, although it had generally descended to the eldest son of the House of Oldenburg since 1448) to hereditary in 1660, the so-called Kongelov (Lex Regia in Latin) of 1665 established the reign "by the grace of God" of King Frederick III and his posterity.[13] Of the articles of this law, all except Article 21 and Article 25 have been repealed by amendments to the Constitution in 1849, 1853, 1953, and 2009.

Article 21 states "No Prince of the Blood, who resides here in the Realm and in Our territory, shall marry, or leave the Country, or take service under foreign Masters, unless he receives Permission from the King".[13] Under this provision, princes of Denmark who permanently reside in other realms by express permission of the Danish Crown (i.e. members of the dynasties of Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom) do not thereby forfeit their royalty in Denmark, nor are they bound to obtain prior permission to travel abroad or to marry from its sovereign, although since 1953 those not descended in male-line from King Christian X are no longer in the line of succession to the Danish throne.[13] However, those who do reside in Denmark or its territories require the monarch's prior permission to travel abroad and to marry.[13]

Article 25 stipulates, with respect to blood members of the Royal dynasty: "They should answer to no Magistrate Judges, but their first and last Judge shall be the King, or to whomsoever He decrees."[13] The wording excludes those whose blood cannot be traced to a Danish monarch (e.g., the present Queen).

Notes

1Princess 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 heir presumptive, she and her husband would have to take permanent residence in Denmark and her children would have succession rights only 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.[15]

2Queen Anne-Marie has no succession rights, and her descendants have none through her, because the permission granted for her marriage stipulated that she renounced her claim to the Danish throne upon becoming

queen consort of the Hellenes
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Danish Monarchy - the Royal House". Kongehuset.dk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  2. ^ "House of Monpezat". Kongehuset.dk (Press release) (in Danish). Danish Monarchy. 30 April 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011.
  3. ^ Danish-Style Royal Fairy Tale - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
  4. ^ "Once upon a time". The Age. Melbourne. 10 May 2004.
  5. ISBN 0-8063-4942-5
    . The daughters of Prince and Princess Michael [of Greece and Denmark] are titled Princess of Greece without the style of Royal Highness
  6. ISBN 2-901138-07-1
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  7. ISBN 0-8063-5172-1
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  8. ^ Agence France-Presse (29 September 2022). "Denmark's Queen Margrethe strips four grandchildren of royal titles". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  9. ^ Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter (2 February 1999). "Conditional Consent, Dynastic Rights and the Danish Law of Succession". Hoelseth's Royal Corner. Dag Trygsland Hoelseth. Archived from the original on 7 August 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ Søgeresultat: - Skeel-Holbek, Schaffalitzky de Muckadell
  11. ^ "Rangfølgen". 16 July 2011. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Danneskiold | lex.dk". Den Store Danske (in Danish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Gråsten Palace
  14. ^ "Kongeloven". Statsministeriet. 4 September 1709. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  15. ^ Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter (2 February 1999). "Conditional Consent, Dynastic Rights and the Danish Law of Succession". Hoelseth's Royal Corner. Dag Trygsland Hoelseth. Retrieved 5 November 2009.

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