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Count Flemming Of Rosenborg
Count Flemming Valdemar Carl Axel of Rosenborg (9 March 1922 – 19 June 2002) was a former Danish prince. Life Prince Flemming was the youngest son and child of Prince Axel of Denmark (himself a son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark) and Princess Margaretha of Sweden.Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ''Burke's Royal Families of the World, vol.1: Europe & Latin America'', p.70 He renounced his rights to the throne and his princely title and style on 14 June 1949 and took the title of Count of Rosenborg. He served in the Royal Danish Navy as a Commander. Count Flemming of Rosenborg had four children and ten grandchildren. Marriage He married Alice ''Ruth'' Nielsen (Copenhagen, 8 October 1924 – 25 July 2010) in Copenhagen on 24 May 1949 and had four children: * Count Valdemar Georg Flemming Kai ''Axel'' of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen 24 January 1950) he married Jane Glarborg on 24 May 1975 and divorced in 1986; they had two children. He married Jutta Beck on 10 December 1988; they had two c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Count Of Rosenborg
Count of Rosenborg () is a Danish hereditary title of Danish nobility, nobility granted by the List of Danish monarchs, monarchs of Denmark to some men formerly titled as List of princes of Denmark, princes of Denmark and their descendants. Traditionally, the title has been conferred to male princes who Morganatic marriage, married morganatically, and thus could not obtain a consent for marriage by the sovereign, which consequently resulted in the forfeiture of their Dynasty, dynastic rights, including succession to the Danish throne, royal Royal and noble styles, styles and princely titulature. The Count, comital title refers to Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. During the 20th century several lines with the title and name Count of Rosenborg were separated from the Danish royal family. There are seven lines of the Counts of Rosenborg, the first of which became extinct on the male side in 1995. The title was first given to Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Prince Valdemar's son Prince Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Prince Robert, Duke Of Chartres
Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand; 9 November 1840 – 5 December 1910), was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and thus, a grandson of King Louis-Philippe of France. He fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. In 1863, he married his cousin Princess Françoise of Orléans, the daughter of François, Prince of Joinville. In 1886, he was exiled from France. Life Born in 1840, the duke was very soon orphaned – his father died in a carriage accident in 1842 and his mother of the flu in 1858. Thus, during their childhood and adolescence, he and his elder brother, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, were mainly looked after by their grandparents, King Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie. During the French Revolution of 1848, King Louis-Philippe refused to fire upon the revolutionaries, instead abdicating his throne in favour of his grandson Philippe on Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |