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The House of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Danish: Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg),
known as the House of Glücksburg for short, is a
royal house
originating in Glücksburg in northernmost Germany. It is a branch of the
House of
Oldenburg that is descended from King Christian III of Denmark.
Its members include the royal houses of Denmark and Norway, the deposed royal house of Greece, and the heir to the
throne of the United Kingdom.
This particular line comes from the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.
The last of them became Duke of Glücksburg and changed his title accordingly
to
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He was married to Princess Louise
Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, a granddaughter of King Frederick V of Denmark.
Neither the Dukes of Beck nor of Glücksburg were sovereign
rulers — they held their lands in fief to the sovereign dukes of Schleswig and Holstein (the Kings of Denmark) and, before
1773, the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp.
Christian IX of Denmark, the fourth son of
Friedrich Wilhelm, was chosen by the childless King Frederick VII of Denmark to be
his heir, as Christian was married to Frederick's first cousin, Luise
of Hesse-Kassel. Wilhelm, the second son of Crown Prince
Christian and Crown Princess Luise, was elected King of the Hellenes on March 30, 1863 to
succeed the deposed Wittelsbach Otto of Greece and took the name George I of
Greece. His father became King of Denmark as Christian IX on November 15,
1863. Prince Carl, the second son of Frederick VIII of Denmark,
Christian IX's eldest son, became King of Norway on November 18,
1905 as Haakon VII of Norway. Christian
IX's daughters, Alexandra of Denmark and Dagmar of Denmark
(who became Maria Feodorovna), married Edward VII of the United
Kingdom and Alexander III of Russia,
respectively. Meaning that by 1914, descendants of King Christian IX were nearly as
prevalent on European thrones as those of Queen Victoria.
Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
(1825–present)
| Ducal Family of
Schleswig-Holstein |
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Extended
family
- The Danish Royal Family
- The Greek Royal Family
- The Norwegian Royal Family
- The Oldenburgian Grand Ducal Family
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Monarchs of
Denmark, 1863–present
Kings
of the Hellenes (Greece), 1863–1974
Kings of Norway,
1905–present
King of Iceland,
1918–1944
The kingdom of Iceland was in personal union
with the kingdom of Denmark:
Other
notable members
- Princess Ingeborg of
Denmark (1878–1958). Daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark,
wife of Prince Carl, Duke of
Västergötland, mother of Princess Margaretha of
Sweden, Märtha of Sweden
and Astrid of
Sweden and Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland (who
themselves are not members of this house, but of that of Bernadotte).
- Princess Elena of Greece and Denmark
(1896–1982). Wife of Carol II of Romania and mother of
Michael I of Romania.
- Princess Olga of Greece
and Denmark (1903–1997). Wife of the Regent Prince Paul of
Yugoslavia.
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Duchess
of Aosta (1904–1974). Wife of Tomislav II of Croatia.
- Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
(1906–1968). Wife of Prince George, Duke of
Kent.
- Princess Cecilie of
Greece and Denmark (1911–1937). Wife of Georg
Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and sister of Philip,
later the Duke of Edinburgh. She died with her husband and two sons
in the crash of Sabena
Airlines Junkers JU52 (OO-AUB) at Ostend.
- Alexandra of Greece and
Denmark (1921–1993). Wife of Peter II of Yugoslavia.
- Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh (b. 1921), grandson to George I of Greece, son to Prince Andrew of Greece, consort to Elizabeth II of the
United
Kingdom. All agnatic descendants of Prince Philip,
including Charles, Prince of Wales, also
belong to this house.
- Queen Sofia of Spain (b. 1938). Wife of
King Juan Carlos I of Spain, sister
of King Constantine II of Greece.
- Prince Michael of
Greece and Denmark (b. 1939). Son of Prince Christopher
of Greece and Denmark and Princess Françoise of Orléans (1902–1953);
grandson of King George I of
the Hellenes.
Coat of
Arms
The coat of arms of Norway is the coat of arms of Norway as a
state, in use since the 11th century and used by all ruling houses
since then, and not the family coat of arms of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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