Frederik of Denmark
Frederik André Henrik Christian, Prince of Denmark , Count von Monpezat (born May 26, 1968 in Copenhagen ), is the Danish Crown Prince . He is the son of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik of Denmark .
Life
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education and profession
Frederik was born in 1968 as the eldest son of the then Crown Prince couple Margrethe and Henrik . After graduating from high school, he studied political science at Harvard and at Aarhus University , where he obtained a master's degree. He worked temporarily as a diplomat for the Danish UN Mission in New York and in the Danish Embassy in Paris .
He began his military career in 1986 as a recruit in the Royal Life Guard (Danish: Den Kongelige Livgarde ). In 1988 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve and served as a unit leader in the Guard Hussar Regiment (Danish: Guard Hussar Regiment ). In 1989 he was promoted to first lieutenant of the reserve (Danish: premierløjtnant af reserven). In 1995 he trained as a combat swimmer in the elite unit of the Navy , the Frømandskorpset (German: Frogman Corps). In 1997 the Crown Prince was promoted to lieutenant captain of the reserve in the Navy (Danish: søværnet). In the same year he was also captain of the Army and Air Force reserves . He served in both branches of the armed forces. Since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the Institute for Strategy at the Danish Military Academy . In 2004 he became a frigate captain (Danish: kommandørkaptajn) of the navy and lieutenant colonel of the army and the air force. In 2010 he was promoted to captain at sea (Danish: kommandør) of the navy and colonel in the army and air force. Since 2015 he has held the rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy and is also Major General of the Army and Air Force (in Denmark the monarch is Commander in Chief of the Danish Armed Forces ).
Prince Frederik's mother tongue is Danish, he also speaks French, English and German.
marriage and family
In 2000, the Prince met the Australian Mary Donaldson (born February 5, 1972) at the Olympic Games in Sydney . The couple married on May 14, 2004 in Copenhagen .
Their first child, Christian Valdemar Henry John, was born on October 15, 2005, and their daughter Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe was born on April 21, 2007. On January 8, 2011, the twins - a boy and a girl - were born in Copenhagen.
- Prince Christian of Denmark , Count of Monpezat (born October 15, 2005 in Copenhagen).
- Princess Isabella of Denmark , Comtess of Monpezat (born April 21, 2007 in Copenhagen) was baptized on July 1, 2007 in the church of Fredensborg Palace in the name of Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe. Isabella is the first female offspring in the royal family since 1946. The princess was named after her late maternal grandmother, Henrietta Clark Donaldson, after her paternal grandmother, Queen Margrethe, and after her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Ingrid , and possibly after Isabella of Austria , Queen of Denmark (who is known in Denmark as Elisabeth). Her godparents are Mathilde of Belgium , Princess Alexia of Greece , Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Major Peter Heering and Hofjägermeisterin Marie Louise Skeel.
- Prince Vincent of Denmark , Count of Monpezat (born January 8, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. in Copenhagen). The prince was christened Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander on April 14, 2011 in Holmens Kirke in Copenhagen. When Minik is a Greenlandic name with blubber can be translated or fat layer. His godparents are his maternal uncle John Stuart Donaldson, King Felipe of Spain , Gustav Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, who is the son of Princess Benedigte of Denmark and Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, Baroness Helle Reedtz-Thott and Caroline Heering, who is Crown Princess Mary's lady-in-waiting.
- Princess Josephine of Denmark , Countess of Monpezat (born January 8, 2011 at 10:56 in Copenhagen). The princess was christened Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda on April 14, 2011 in Holmens Kirke in Copenhagen. Like her twin brother, she was given a Greenlandic name. Ivalo is a Greenlandic name meaning tendon . Her godparents are Princess Marie of Denmark , Charles of Bourbon-Sicily, her maternal aunt Patricia Bailey, Landgrave Bendt Wedell, Birgitte Handwerk and Josephinerechner.
On April 30, 2008 the Danish royal family announced that the descendants of the royal couple and their spouses should from now on also bear the title "Count / Countess of Monpezat".
Public duties and interests
From 11 February to 31 May 2000 crossed Frederik northern Greenland in a dog sled - expedition over a distance of 2,795 kilometers. This so-called Sirius expedition has been completed every year since 1950 by the Greenlandic sled dog unit Sirius Patrol . ( Sirius 2000 is also the name of a book and television series in Denmark.)
His duties as Crown Prince include representing Denmark and the royal family on various occasions abroad. He is the godfather of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway and Prince Oscar of Sweden . Prince Frederik has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2009 .
ancestors
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Count Aristide de Laborde de Monpezat |
Eugen Ludwig Heinrich Hallberg |
Jean Alfred Doursenot |
Léonard Gay (1846–1918) |
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Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat (1868–1929) |
Maurice Doursenot |
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King Gustav VI. Adolf (Sweden) (1882–1973) |
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| Grandparents |
Count André de Laborde de Monpezat (1907–1998) |
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Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat (1934–2018) |
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Others
The Kronprins Frederik , a ferry of the Scandlines shipping company , was named after him.
See also
literature
- Frederik , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 52/2003 from December 15, 2003, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Panoramic photos from the wedding ( QuickTime ) (archived)
- Homepage of the Danish Royal Family (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danish website Royal family (kongehuset.dk): HKH Kronprinsen, Militær karriere (Danish) , accessed on July 12, 2017
- ↑ website of the royal. Family
- ↑ Meaning and origin of Minik in the Oqaasileriffik (English)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Meaning of Ivalu or Ivalo at nordicnames.de (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| - | Danish succession to the throne | Prince Christian |
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| SURNAME | Frederik of Denmark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frederik to Denmark; Laborde de Monpezat, Frederik André Henrik Christian Graf de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish heir to the throne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |