Ingolf of Rosenborg

Ingolf von Rosenborg (born February 17, 1940 at Sorgefri Castle near Copenhagen , Denmark ) is the older son and middle child of Hereditary Prince Knud and Hereditary Princess Caroline-Mathilde and thus the cousin of the reigning Danish Queen Margrethe . His full first name is Ingolf Christian Frederik Knud Harald Gorm Gustav Viggo Valdemar Aage .

Position in the Danish royal family

Ingolf von Rosenborg with his wife at Sønderborg Castle on April 18, 2014, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Düppel .

When Ingolf was born, after his uncle Frederik and his father Knud, he was third in the line of succession, in which female descendants were not yet included. When the Danish constitution was changed in terms of succession in favor of the daughters of King Frederik , he fell back to sixth place in the ranking of the heir to the throne, but still retained the title of Prince of Denmark , which he was entitled to as the grandson of a monarch. When he did not marry appropriately in 1968, this was withdrawn from him and the title Graf von Rosenborg , created in 1914 for family members who were not entitled to the throne, was assigned.

family

Ingolf von Rosenborg had an older sister Elisabeth , who was the only one of the siblings still in line to the Danish throne until her death in 2018. Ingolf's younger brother Christian († 2013) was also excluded from the line of succession due to improper marriage and therefore also carried the title of Count of Rosenborg. On January 13, 1968 Ingolf married the commoner Inge Terney, who was raised to Countess of Rosenborg through the wedding. She died on July 21, 1996. On March 7, 1998, Count Ingolf married the lawyer Sussie Hjorhøj in Engtved, who since then has also been named Countess of Rosenborg. There were no children from marriages. Ingolf has three nieces, known in Denmark as the Countesses of Rosenborg: Josephine, Camilla and Feodora von Rosenborg.

activities

Count Ingolf owns the Egeland estate near Egtved in southern Jutland , which he runs as a farm. As “compensation” for his demotion when he changed the throne in 1953, he received an annual allowance of 1.3 million crowns (2007).

As a member of the royal family, he primarily acts as the patron of the following organizations:

• Sydslesvigsk Udvalg af May 5, 1945 (Organization for the Promotion of the Danish Minority in Southern Schleswig )
• Genforenings- og Grænsemuseet (museum about the reunification of North Schleswig with Denmark in 1920 )
• Dansk Spejderkorps Sydslesvig (Scout Association South Schleswig)
• Julemærkemarchen (charity march in favor of social institutions for children)
• Landsgardeforeningen (umbrella organization of the Danish music corps)

Web links

• Picture gallery in the Danish magazine BT: Ingolf von Rosenborg
• Biography about Ingolf von Rosenborg in Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
• Ingolf von Rosenborg on lundskov.dk
• Danish royalty on angelfire.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tronfølgelov on retsinformation.dk Regulations for the Succession to the throne in Denmark, accessed on June 1, 2013 (Danish)
2. ↑ Grev Ingolf fylder 72 år i dag. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .  (Danish)
3. ↑ Museets Protektor , Graf Ingolf on the website of Museum Genforenings- og Grænsemuseet (Danish), accessed on July 14, 2014.
4. ↑ Protektor ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Count Ingolf on the Julemærkemarchen website (Danish), accessed on 14 July 2014.