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However, under pressure from his parents, Alexander decided to go to Denmark. [21] In June 1866, Tsarevich Alexander arrived in Copenhagen with his brothers Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duke Alexei. While looking over photographs of Nicholas, [22] Alexander asked Dagmar if "she could love him after having loved Nixa, to whom they were both ...
Dagmar gradually developed a romantic attraction toward Alexander. [7] They married in October 1866, [7] and Dagmar took the name Maria Feodorovna after converting to Russian Orthodoxy. [7] [21] Maria and Alexander would go on to have six children together, one of whom, Alexander, did not survive past infancy. [7]
Tsesarevich Nicholas with Princess Dagmar of Denmark, engagement photograph, 1864. In the summer of 1864, Nicholas became engaged to Princess Dagmar of Denmark.She was the second daughter of King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark and was a younger sister of the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra and wife of the heir-apparent to the British throne, Albert Edward, who reigned as ...
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark. She was the sister of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II.
According to the sagas he is son of Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, but some historians identify him with Adam's Hardegon, Svein's son, who invaded Denmark from Northmannia and supplanted the House of Olof. He may have ruled only part of Denmark, as Adam places the commencement of his long reign between 909 and 915, while the House of Olof was still ...
Princess Thyra of Denmark (Thyra Amalie Caroline Charlotte Anna; 29 September 1853 – 26 February 1933) was the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. In 1878, she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover.
Between 1915 and 1920, a Copenhagen woman, Dagmar Overbye, offered to take on unwanted babies for a fee, telling the mothers they were going to a good home. Instead, she murdered them.
Alexander II of Russia [116] 4. Alexander III of Russia [114] 9. Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine [116] 2. Nicholas II of Russia: 10. Christian IX of Denmark [117] 5. Princess Dagmar of Denmark [114] 11. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel [117] 1. Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia: 12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine [118] 6.