Christian VII (29 January 1749 – 13 March 1808) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. His...
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Frederick VII (Frederik Carl Christian; 6 October 1808 – 15 November 1863) was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older...
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line of the House of Oldenburg. Upon the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark in 1863, Christian (who was Frederick's second cousin and husband of Frederick's...
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future Haakon VII was born in Copenhagen as Prince Carl of Denmark. He was the second son of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark (later King...
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Christian VII, Frederick VI and Christian VIII of Denmark through his mother and was a claimant for the Danish throne in the 1860s. Born a prince of the...
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1670–1699 Christian VI of Denmark (1699–1746), King of Denmark and Norway 1730–1746 Christian VII of Denmark (1749–1808), King of Denmark and Norway...
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Christian X (Danish: Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death...
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Christian VIII (18 September 1786 – 20 January 1848) was King of Denmark from 1839 to 1848 and, as Christian Frederick, King of Norway in 1814. Christian...
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son of King Christian VII of Denmark, and had assumed the role as regent at the age of 16 in 1784 because his father, King Christian VII, had major psychological...
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The Order of Christian VII, also called "Tessera Concordiæ", was a Danish order of knighthood that flourished for some time during the 18th century. The...
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Christian I (Christiern I) (February 1426 – 21 May 1481) was a German noble and Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union. He was king of Denmark (1448–1481)...
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Copenhagen. He was the first child born to King Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark and Norway. He was born 15 months after his parents'...
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A Royal Affair (category Cultural depictions of Christian VII of Denmark)
century, at the court of the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark, and focuses on the romance between his wife, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, and...
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Matilda of Great Britain. Though officially regarded as the daughter of King Christian VII, it is widely accepted that her biological father was Johann Friedrich...
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cousin Frederick VII as King of Denmark. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and...
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away from the royal court. At the age of fifteen, she was married to her first cousin, King Christian VII of Denmark and Norway, who suffered from a mental...
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King Frederick VII 11 years later, Christian became King of Denmark. Due to Christian's German background, he was unpopular among his subjects during the start of his...
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installed as regent, acting on behalf of his half-brother, King Christian VII, who was mentally unstable. After the coup of 1784, when the king's son Crown...
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Bernstorff (category Danish people of German descent)
of Count/Countess, granted to them on 14 December 1767 by King Christian VII of Denmark. Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff (1649–1726), Hanoverian minister...
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eldest son and heir, the future King Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the daughter of Christian IX, which took place on 10 March 1863. Among...
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January 1848, Christian VIII of Denmark died. He was succeeded by his son Frederick VII. Frederick became king during the Revolutions of 1848. And the...
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Frederik VIII (Danish: Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl; 3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912. The...
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Johann Friedrich Struensee (category Court of Christian VII of Denmark)
German-Danish physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish...
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fourth child of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Lovisa of Sweden, and thus brother to Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway. The prince...
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Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat RE (Christian Valdemar Henri John; born 15 October 2005), is the heir apparent to the Danish throne...
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King Frederick VI of Denmark) and his spouse and first cousin, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel. Her paternal grandfather King Christian VII being mentally...
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Heil dir im Siegerkranz (category Cultural depictions of Christian VII of Denmark)
songs had the status of unofficial national anthems. Heinrich Harries wrote the lyrics in 1790 in honour of King Christian VII of Denmark, and the line "Heil...
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King Frederick VII of Denmark in 1863, Christian IX acceded to the throne as the first Danish monarch of the House of Glücksburg. Christian IX eventually...
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Enlightened absolutism (redirect from List of enlightened despots)
of Tuscany (1765–1790) Ferdinand IV of Naples (1816–1825) Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples and Sicily (1768–1814) Christian VII of Denmark (through...
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Støvlet-Cathrine (category Mistresses of Danish royalty)
a Danish prostitute, one of the best known courtesans in Copenhagen in the 1760s and the official royal mistress of King Christian VII of Denmark. Støvlet-Cathrine...
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