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Alexandra Christina, Countess of Frederiksborg, RE, formerly Princess Alexandra of Denmark (née Manley; born 30 June 1964), is the former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark, the younger brother of King Frederik X of Denmark. She was born in Hong Kong, and is of mixed Asian and European ancestry. She was introduced to Prince Joachim in 1994.
Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as King of Denmark. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince ...
Countess of Frederiksborg (Danish: Grevinde af Frederiksborg) is a Danish non-hereditary substantive title of nobility, which Queen Margrethe II of Denmark created for her former daughter-in-law, Alexandra. [1] Alexandra the Countess of Frederiksborg. The title refers to Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, the largest Renaissance residence in ...
Queen Margrethe’s second son shares Count Henrik and Countess Athena with Marie, and his older sons Count Felix and Count Nikolai with his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg.
There's major drama in Denmark's royal family thanks to the Queen stripping her grandchildren of their titles, and their mom going absolutely off.
Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark is an 1864 portrait painting by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter. [1] [2] [3] It depicts Alexandra of Denmark, then Princess of Wales as the wife of the future Edward VII. Alexandra had arrived in Britain from her native Denmark the previous year for her wedding.
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This list of Danish consorts includes each queen consort (wife of a reigning king) and each prince consort (husband of a reigning queen). Due to unions (personal and real), the queens of 1380–1814 (effectively from 1406) were also queens of Norway, and the queens of 1389–1521/23 (effectively from 1406) were also (though with interruptions) queens of Sweden.