Caroline of Denmark
Caroline of Denmark (born October 28, 1793 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen , † March 31, 1881 in Copenhagen) was a Princess of Denmark and Hereditary Princess of Denmark by marriage.
Life
Caroline was a daughter of King Friedrich VI. of Denmark and Marie of Hessen-Kassel . She and her sister Wilhelmine , who was fourteen years younger than her, were the only ones of the eight children of the royal couple who reached adulthood. In Denmark, male succession still applied to the throne at that time, and Princess Caroline was therefore not a crown princess.
Negotiations to marry the seventeen-year-old Caroline to the Swedish heir to the throne Karl August were ended by his sudden death on May 28, 1810. In September 1812 Caroline was engaged to her mother's brother, Christian von Hessen-Kassel (1776-1814). He suffered a breakdown the year after the engagement and died in November 1814 at the age of 38. It was not until August 1, 1829, at the age of 35, that Princess Caroline married her father's cousin, Prince Ferdinand of Denmark (1792–1863), the son of Hereditary Prince Friedrich and younger brother of the future King Christian VIII of Denmark , at Frederiksberg Palace in Copenhagen . With this marriage, two lines of the Danish royal family were united, which had a cool relationship with each other since 1814.
Christian VIII died in 1848 and his only son succeeded him as King Friedrich VII on the Danish throne. Since he had no descendants from his first marriage to Caroline's sister Wilhelmine, nor from his two other marriages, Caroline's husband took the position of Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Caroline that of Hereditary Princess as the next agnat in 1848. Hereditary Prince Ferdinand died on June 29, 1863, just under five months before King Frederick VII, who died on November 15, 1863. Caroline, who was on the verge of becoming queen at her husband's side, now experienced the extinction of the old royal line of the House of Oldenburg in the male line . With the accession to the throne of Christian IX. became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg branch of Denmark's king.
Caroline died in Copenhagen in 1881. Since their marriage, like that of their sister Wilhelmine, had remained childless, with Wilhelmine's death in 1891, after almost 450 years, the direct line of the kings of Denmark from the House of Oldenburg finally expired.
literature
- Caroline of Denmark . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 3 : Brandt – Clavus . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1889, p. 386 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was not until 1953 that the Danish parliament changed the rules of succession to the throne and made a successor to Princess Margrethe possible .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caroline of Denmark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caroline of Denmark and Norway |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hereditary Princess of Denmark |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiansborg , Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1881 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |