Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark

Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark ( Alexandrine-Louise Caroline-Mathilde Dagmar ) (born December 12, 1914 at Jaegersborghus in Gentofte near Copenhagen ; † April 26, 1962 in Copenhagen) was a Danish princess from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , a branch line of the House of Oldenburg . By marriage she was Countess zu Castell-Castell . Before her marriage, she was often discussed as the possible wife of King Edward VIII of England .

origin

Princess Alexandrine-Louise's childhood home Jægersborghus (today Schæffergården)

Princess Alexandrine-Louise was the third child of Prince Harald of Denmark and his wife Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg . Her paternal grandparents were the Danish King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise . Alexandrine-Louise was a niece of the Danish King Christian X.

Alexandrine-Louise had four siblings. Her brother Gorm was a member of the Danska brigaden (German "Danish Brigade") during World War II , which was pursuing plans for the liberation of Denmark from Sweden . Her sister Caroline-Mathilde was Crown Princess of Denmark at the side of her husband Prince Knut from 1947 until 1953, when the succession to the throne was changed in favor of the reigning Queen Margrethe II . Alexandrine-Louise, on the other hand, married to Germany, just like her sister Feodora .

Marriage and children

On January 22, 1937, Alexandrine-Louise married the German officer Luitpold Graf zu Castell-Castell (* 1904 in Langenzell ) at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen . The couple met in 1936 at the Olympic Games in Berlin . At that time, Count Luitpold was studying law in Munich . His parents were Otto Friedrich Graf zu Castell-Castell and Amelie Princess von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg . Count Luitpold took part in the Second World War as a first lieutenant and died in Bulgaria in 1941 as a result of a plane crash. Alexandrine-Louise died a widow in Copenhagen in 1962 .

The marriage of Alexandrine-Louise and Luitpold zu Castell-Castell had three children:

• Amélie Alexandrine Helene Caroline Mathilde Pauline (born May 25, 1938 in Berlin ); ⚭ 1965 (in Hochburg) Oscar Ritter von Miller zu Aichholz (* 1934 in Vienna )
• Thyra Antonie Marie-Therese Feodora Agnes (born September 14, 1939 in Berlin); ⚭ 1961 (in Copenhagen) Karl Moritz Moes (* 1937 in Copenhagen)
• Otto-Luitpold Gustav Friedrich Christian Harald Carl (born March 13, 1942 in Berlin, † March 19, 1942 in Berlin)

Alexandrine-Louise's daughter Thyra lives in Denmark, her husband is a Danish wine and antiques dealer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexandrine-Louise Caroline-Mathilde Dagmar zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Denmark on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 26, 2015.
2. ↑ Danish Princess Will Marry Count , report in the American newspaper Sarasota Herald-Tribune of August 24, 1936, accessed on September 13, 2014 (English).
3. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, p. 347.
4. ↑ Gorm. In: The Store Danske Encyklopædi ("The Great Danish Encyclopedia"). Retrieved January 9, 2014 (Danish). 
5. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, pp. 405-407.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, p. 348.
7. ↑ King Christian's Niece. (No longer available online.) In: Evening Post, Issue 69. September 18, 1936, p. 15 , archived from the original on March 26, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Luitpold Alfred Friedrich Karl Graf zu Castell-Castell on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 26, 2015.