Harald of Denmark
Prince Harald of Denmark , full name Harald Christian Frederik of Denmark (born October 8, 1876 at Charlottenlund Palace near Copenhagen , † March 30, 1949 in Copenhagen) was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg family , a branch of the Oldenburg family .
Life
Harald was the third son of King Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843–1912) and his wife Queen Louise (1851–1926), daughter of King Charles XV. of Sweden-Norway and Princess Luise of Orange-Nassau . His older brothers were King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway .
At the age of seventeen, Prince Harald joined the Danish army. He later served in the Gardehusar Regimentet, among others, and resigned at the age of fifty with the rank of major general . In 1933 his brother, King Christian X. appointed him lieutenant general . On July 28, 1894, Prince Harald became a Knight of the Elephant Order and on October 11, 1901, he was made Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order . Harald was a member of the Danish Order of Freemasons .
Prince Harald married his second cousin, Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1888–1962), a daughter of Duke Friedrich Ferdinand, at Glücksburg Castle on April 28, 1909 . The couple moved into a mansion in Jægersborg, north of Copenhagen, where their four oldest children were born. In 1918/1919 the family then moved into a villa built for them in the north of Copenhagen.
As Prince of Denmark, he was buried in the traditional burial place of the royal family in Roskilde Cathedral.
progeny
Prince Harald and Princess Helena had three daughters and two sons:
- Princess Feodora (July 3, 1910 - March 17, 1975)
- ⚭ 1937 Christian Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1898–1974)
- Princess Caroline-Mathilde (April 27, 1912 - December 12, 1995)
- ⚭ 1933 Hereditary Prince Canute of Denmark (1900–1976)
- Princess Alexandrine-Louise (December 12, 1914 - April 26, 1962)
- ⚭ 1937 Count Luitpold zu Castell-Castell (1904–1941)
- Prince Gorm (born February 24, 1919 - † December 26, 1991)
- Prince Oluf (born March 10, 1923 - December 19, 1990), Count of Rosenborg since 1948
ancestors
| Friedrich Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein (1785–1831) | |||||||||||||
| Christian IX, King of Denmark (1818–1906) | |||||||||||||
| Luise Karoline of Hessen-Kassel (1789–1867) | |||||||||||||
| Frederick VIII, King of Denmark (1843–1912) | |||||||||||||
| Wilhelm of Hesse (Rumpenheim) (1787–1867) | |||||||||||||
| Louise of Hesse (1817–1898) | |||||||||||||
| Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864) | |||||||||||||
| Harald of Denmark | |||||||||||||
| Oskar I, King of Sweden (1799-1859) | |||||||||||||
| Charles XV, King of Sweden (1826–1872) | |||||||||||||
| Josephine von Leuchtenberg (1807–1876) | |||||||||||||
| Louise of Sweden-Norway (1851-1926) | |||||||||||||
| Friedrich Prince of the Netherlands (1797–1881) | |||||||||||||
| Luise of Oranien-Nassau (1828–1871) | |||||||||||||
| Luise of Prussia (1808-1870) | |||||||||||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 27364, HMSO, London, October 11, 1901, p. 6640 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
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| SURNAME | Harald of Denmark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish prince |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenlund Palace |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1949 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |