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Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark has been the heir apparent since 2024. Denmark has had absolute primogeniture since 2009. The Danish Act of Succession adopted on 27 March 1953 restricts the throne to those descended from King Christian X and his wife, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, through approved marriages.
Christian IV, King of Denmark (r.1588–1648) suffered from a rare condition, Plica polonica, which caused a lock of hair to bind together. Rather than attempt to remove the lock, Christian IV kept his hair plaited and even hung a large pearl from it.
7 de nov. de 2023 · February 28, 1648 (70) Rosenborg slot, København, Danmark (Denmark) Place of Burial: Roskilde, Sjælland, Danmark. Immediate Family: Son of Frederick II, king of Denmark and Norway and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Husband of Anna Katharina Prinzessin von Brandenburg. Ex-husband of Kirstine Munk, Grevinde af Slesvig-Holsten, til Rosenvold.
Christian IV’s son-in-law to be, the Steward of the Realm Frants Rantzau, fell into the water after a party and drowned in November 1632. It is said that Christian IV lay on the edge of the moat and tried to save Rantzau. The king almost fell in himself, but was saved by the castle’s head chef.
Christian IV has reason to swagger: the fortress in the background, Kronborg Castle, was one of the key defences of the ‘Sound’, the strip of water which gave access to the Baltic Sea. Every ship that passed through paid ‘Sound Dues’ to the Danish King from 1429 until 1857. The King is here shown in full-length, his left resting on top ...
Christian IV (Danish language: Christian den Fjerde 12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648), sometimes colloquially referred to as Christian Firtal in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway, was a monarch of the House of Oldenburg who ruled as King of Denmark-Norway from 1588 to 1648. His reign of more than 59 years is the longest of all Danish monarchs. Christian began his personal rule ...
Prior to Christian's intervention, Denmark was a limited monarchy in which the king shared power equally with the landed aristocracy. Although Denmark was still an elective monarchy when Christian IV died in 1648, the breakdown of the Crown-aristocratic consensus was a necessary precursor to the establishment of absolute monarchy in Denmark in ...
