Feodora of Denmark

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Princess Feodora of Denmark (born July 3, 1910 at Jaegersborghus in Gentofte, Copenhagen ; † March 17, 1975 in Bückeburg ) was a member of the Danish royal family and thus a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg family , a branch of the Oldenburg family .

Her full first name was Feodora Louise Caroline Mathilde Viktoria Alexandra Frederikke Johanne . After her marriage, she carried the family name Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe .

origin

Princess Feodora's childhood home Jægersborghus (today Schæffergården)

Princess Feodora was the first 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 .

Princess Feodora had four siblings. Her sister Caroline-Mathilde and her husband Prince Knut formed the heir to the throne couple from 1947 until 1953 when the succession regulation was changed in favor of Queen Margrethe II, who is now reigning . Her brother Gorm was a member of the Danska brigaden (German "Danish Brigade") during World War II, which forged plans from Sweden for the liberation of Denmark from German occupation . Feodora's German mother, however, sympathized with the occupiers and was therefore banished from Denmark for two years at the end of the war.

Feodora's family initially lived at Jaegersborghus, a manor house in the Copenhagen suburb of Gentofte. After that, the family lived in a Julius excavator villa in Copenhagen .

Marriage and Life in Germany

Princess Feodora married Prince Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe on September 9, 1937 at Fredensborg Palace . Christian came from the Náchod branch of the Schaumburg-Lippe family , which had owned the Nachod - Chwalkowitz family since 1840 . His parents were Friedrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Louise of Denmark , a sister of Feodora's father Harald of Denmark .

The marriage had four children:

  • Wilhelm Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born August 19, 1939)
  • Waldemar Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born December 19, 1940 - August 11, 2020)
  • Marie Louise Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe (born December 27, 1945)
  • Harald Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born March 27, 1948)

Feodora lived with her family in Germany . For the loss of the family possessions in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War, Christian received a modest severance payment, from which he built up a company in West Germany . He died in 1974. Princess Feodora stayed in Germany until the end of her life and died in 1975 in Bückeburg in Lower Saxony . Her two eldest sons, who grew up bilingual, went to Denmark after the death of their father and started working there.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, p. 347.
  2. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, pp. 405-407.
  3. ↑ http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_efter_1945/Gorm?highlight=prins%20gorm Prinz Gorm in Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (The Great Danish Encyclopedia) (Danish).
  4. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, pp. 351-352.
  5. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt. Copenhagen 2002. Volume 1, p. 38.
  6. ^ Bramsen, Bo: Huset Glücksborg. Europe's svigerfader and hans efterslægt . Copenhagen 2002. Volume 2, p. 345.
personal data
SURNAME Feodora of Denmark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Princess Feodora of Denmark; Feodora af Danmark; Princess Feodora af Danmark; Princess Feodora of Schaumburg-Lippe; Feodora von Schaumburg-Lippe; Feodora af Schaumburg-Lippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish member of the royal family
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaegersborghus, Gentofte , Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1975
Place of death Buckeburg