Ingrid of Sweden

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Ingrid of Sweden
Queen consort of Denmark
Tenure20 April 1947 – 14 January 1972
Born(1910-03-28)28 March 1910
Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Died7 November 2000(2000-11-07) (aged 90)
Fredensborg Palace, Fredensborg, Denmark
Burial14 November 2000
, Denmark
Spouse
(m. 1935; died 1972)
Margaret of Connaught
SignatureIngrid of Sweden's signature

Ingrid of Sweden (Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta; 28 March 1910 – 7 November 2000) was

King Frederik IX
and continued to be styled Queen Ingrid of Denmark after his death.

Born into the

queen of the Hellenes
.

In 1947, her husband became king on his father's death. As queen, Ingrid reformed the traditions of Danish court life, abolished many old-fashioned customs at court and created a more relaxed atmosphere at official receptions. King Frederik IX died in 1972, and Ingrid's daughter Margrethe became queen.

Early life

Princess Ingrid (far right) with her father, mother and three brothers in 1912.

Ingrid was born on 28 March 1910, at the

Margaret of Connaught. Her mother was a daughter of Queen Victoria's third son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn by his wife Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
.

She was baptised Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta in Slottskyrkan (the Royal Chapel) in Stockholm, Sweden on 5 May 1910. Her godparents were: the

Princess Alexander of Teck (her mother's paternal first cousin); the Prince of Wales (her mother's paternal first cousin); Prince Adalbert of Prussia (her maternal second cousin); the Grand Duchess of Baden (her grandaunt); and the Dowager Duchess of Dalarna (her great-grandaunt).[1]

Ingrid and her family lived in apartments in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in a mansion at

stillborn daughter resulted from her father's second marriage. Ingrid felt betrayed by her father when he remarried, and she was unkind to Crown Princess Louise. Ingrid and her father would not reconcile until many years later.[4]

Ingrid was taught

Gustav V. During her young adulthood, Ingrid was often seen driving her two-seat car around Stockholm.[citation needed] Besides gaining a reputation as a stylish young woman, she was known as being quite attractive. After her visit to the United States in 1939, Americans described her as "tall and very slender" with a "nicely modeled mouth and exquisite teeth".[citation needed
]

Marriage

The newly married royal couple at their arrival in Copenhagen in 1935

The question of Ingrid's marriage was a hot topic of conversation in the 1920s. She was matched with various foreign royalties and was seen by some as a possible wife for the heir apparent to the British throne, the Prince of Wales, who was her second cousin.[5] Her mother, Margaret of Connaught, and the then-Prince of Wales' father, King George V, were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Queen Victoria. In 1928, Ingrid met the Prince of Wales in London. However, no engagement took place.[6] She was also considered as a match for Prince George of the United Kingdom, the fourth son of King George V.

On 15 March 1935, shortly before her 25th birthday, her engagement to Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark and Iceland, who was 11 years her senior, was announced. They had gotten engaged in private in the beginning of February.[7] They were related in several ways. As descendants of Oscar I of Sweden, they were third cousins. Through Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were third cousins. And finally through Paul I of Russia, Frederik was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother.

The couple was married in

Princess Astrid of Norway served as bridesmaids while Count Gustaf Bernadotte of Wisborg, son of Folke Bernadotte
, was a page boy.

Among the guests at the wedding were Frederik's parents,

Crown Princess of Norway
.

The Swedish royal barge Vasaorden transported the couple to Dannebrog, the Danish royal yacht, on 24 May. Two days later, they arrived in Copenhagen aboard the yacht before leaving for a honeymoon to Rome. Her wedding was one of the greatest media events of the day in Sweden in 1935, and received so much attention that the media were criticised for it. [citation needed] Ingrid also appeared on the radio in 1935 and read a poem, something that was also given much attention. [citation needed]

Crown Princess

Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark
.

While she was Crown Princess, she was the official patron of the Girl Guides (1936), after having taken, and passed, the same tests all applicants were given. In 1940, before the occupation, she was the leader of the Danske Kvinders Beredskab (The Danish Women's war-effort society).[8] During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, Ingrid, with her personal courage and integrity, influenced the Danish Royal House and its conduct in relation to the occupation forces, and won great popularity as a symbol of silent resistance and public patriotic moral. She showed solidarity toward the Danish population, and could often be seen on her bicycle or with her baby carriage on the streets of Copenhagen during the war. Her open defiance of the occupation forces made her grandfather, King Gustav of Sweden, worry about the risks, and in 1941, he sent a demand to her to be more discreet "for the sake of the dynasty" and its safety, but she reacted with anger and refused to obey, and she had the support of her spouse, who shared her views. One display of defiance shown by Ingrid was her positioning of the flags of Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom in the window of the nursery at Amalienborg, the royal residence in the centre of Copenhagen.[citation needed]

Queen consort

King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in the 1950s

Upon her husband's accession to the throne on 20 April 1947, she became the Queen of Denmark. As such, she reformed the traditions of Danish court life, abolished many old-fashioned customs at court and created a more relaxed atmosphere at official receptions. She was interested in gardening and art, and renovated the

Gråsten Slot according to her own historical research about the palace's original appearance.[citation needed
]

Widowed queen

Ingrid at a ship christening in 1983

In 1972, King Frederik IX died, and Ingrid was widowed at the age of 61. Her elder daughter, aged 31, became the new queen, and Ingrid now assumed a position as family matriarch. That same year, after having sworn to respect the Danish constitution, she was appointed Rigsforstander (formal regent) and representative of the monarch whenever her daughter (and later her grandsons) were absent, a task she performed on many occasions. This was exceptional; previously, only the Crown Prince had been allowed to act as regent in the absence of the monarch.

She was patron of a long line of social organizations, positions which, one after another, she eventually left to Princess Benedikte as years passed: Røde Kors, Ældre Sagen, Red Barnet, Løgum Klosters Refugium, and Fonden for Træer og Miljø. She also founded the organizations Kong Frederik og Dronning Ingrids fond til humanitære og kulturelle formål, Ingridfondet for South Jutland, Det kgl. Grønlandsfond, and Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond til støtte af kulturelle og videnskabelige formål. She was described as dutiful, well-prepared and energetic.

Death

The grave of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid at Roskilde

Queen Ingrid died on 7 November 2000 at

Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and former President of Finland Mauno Koivisto.[10]

Issue

Queen Ingrid and King Frederik IX had three daughters, ten grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.[citation needed]

  • Henri de Laborde de Monpezat
    on 10 June 1967. They have two sons and eight grandchildren.
  • Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
    on 3 February 1968. They have three children and five grandchildren.
  • King Constantine II of Greece
    on 18 September 1964. They have five children and nine grandchildren.

Honours

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Personal Standard of Queen Ingrid, introduced in 1948 and used until her death in 2000.

National

Foreign

Arms

Ancestry

References

Citations

  1. ^ Roger Lundgren, Ingrid, Prinsesse af Sverige, Dronning af Danmark, People's Press, 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Crown Princess of Sweden – Death After Short Illness". The Times. 3 May 1920. p. 15.
  3. ^ a b "Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  4. pp. 17-20
  5. ^ "Historical documents - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade". info.dfat.gov.au. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Historical documents - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade". info.dfat.gov.au. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  7. ^ Mandal, Marcus (director) (1999). Frederik – Konge til alle tider (Television production) (in Danish). DR. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  8. ^ Börge Outze & Aage Svendstorp (in Swedish): 5 år i bojor. Danmark under ockupationen 1940–1945 (5 years in chains. Denmark during the occupation) Aktiebolaget boktryck (1945) Hälsingborg
  9. ^ Danish Queen Mother dies, BBC, 7 November 2000, archived from the original on 3 February 2014, retrieved 22 August 2013
  10. ^ "Denmark buries beloved Queen Mother Ingrid". 15 November 2000. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF). Parlament.gv.at (in German). p. 134. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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  13. ^ "forseti". Forseti.is. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Onorificenze - Dettaglio del conferimento". quirinale.it. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  15. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ Royal Thai Government Gazette (28 December 1960). "แจ้งความสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี เรื่อง พระราชทานเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์" (thajsky) Dostupné online

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Ingrid of Sweden
Born: 28 March 1910 Died: 7 November 2000
Danish royalty
Preceded by
Queen consort of Denmark

1947–1972
Succeeded by
Henri Laborde de Monpezat
as prince consort