The Danish Royal Family includes The Queen of Denmark and her family. All members hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark with the style of His or Her Royal Highness ( Hans or Hendes Kongelige Højhed ), or His or Her Highness ( Hans or Hendes Højhed ). The Queen and her siblings belong to the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg. The Queen's children and male-line descendants belong agnatically to the family House of Monpezat and have been given the addition title Count(ess) of Monpezat .
The Danish Royal Family enjoys remarkably high approval ratings in Denmark, possibly ranging from somewhere between 80 to 90 percent.
Main members
The Danish Royal Family includes:
- The Queen
- The Prince Consort (The Queen's husband)
- The Crown Prince and Crown Princess (The Queen's son and daughter-in-law)
- Prince Christian (The Crown Prince and Crown Princess's son)
- Princess Isabella (The Crown Prince and Crown Princess's daughter)
- Prince Joachim and Princess Marie (The Queen's son and daughter-in-law)
- Prince Nikolai (Prince Joachim's and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg's first son)
- Prince Felix (Prince Joachim's and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg's second son)
- Prince Henrik (Prince Joachim's and Princess Marie's son)
- Princess Benedikte (The Queen's sister)
- Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes (The Queen's sister)
- Princess Elisabeth (The Queen's cousin)
Extended members
The extended Danish Royal Family which includes people who do not hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark but have close connections to the Queen could be said to include:
- The Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's husband) 1
- The Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's son)
- Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's elder daughter)
- Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's younger daughter)
- Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (Princess Alexandra's husband)
- Count Richard von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (Princess Alexandra's son)
- Countess Ingrid von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (Princess Alexandra's daughter )
Former member
- Alexandra Christina, Countess of Frederiksborg (Prince Joachim's former wife)
The former wife of Queen Margrethe's youngest son Prince Joachim, Princess Alexandra lost the style of Royal Highness and was granted the lower style of Highness upon her divorce in 2005, becoming known as HH Princess Alexandra of Denmark, a style which would cease upon her remarriage. During this time she was still considered a Princess of Denmark and thus a member of the Danish Royal Family. In 2005, her former mother-in-law granted her the additional title of grevinde af Frederiksborg (Countess of Frederiksborg), a personal title which would not be forfeited if Alexandra remarried. When she remarried on 3 March 2007 , she lost the style of Highness and titular dignity of Princess of Denmark, and was no longer a member of the royal family (although she still receives an allowance, and keeps the title of Her Excellency Countess of Frederiksborg ).
Royal Family of Greece
Main article: Greek Royal FamilyThe members of the deposed Royal Family of Greece hold the title of Prince or Princess of Denmark with the qualification of His or Her Royal Highness because their male line ancestor, George I of Greece, was born a Danish prince and, until 1953, his dynastic male-line descendants remained in Denmark's line of hereditary succession. So, they are members of the Danish Royal Family, although the "Royal" in their style derives from their historical association with the Greek monarchy, since normally Denmark only accords it to the Danish monarch's children.
- King Constantine II of the Hellenes (Queen Anne-Marie's husband)
- The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Greece (Queen Anne-Marie's eldest son and his wife)
- Prince Constantine Alexios, Prince Achileas-Andreas, and Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark (The Crown Prince's sons)
- Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark (The Crown Prince's daughter)
- Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie's second son)
- Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie's youngest son)
- Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark and Carlos Morales Quintana (Queen Anne-Marie's elder daughter and her husband)
- Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie's younger daughter)
The following are important royal consorts today who were born with the titles of Prince/Princess of Greece and Denmark, although they are not descended from King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie:
- Queen Sofia of Spain (King Constantine's sister and Queen Anne-Marie's sister-in-law.)
- The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (son of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, grandson of King George I of the Hellenes).
Royal Family of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Main articles: British Royal Family and Canadian Royal FamilyThe following relations of The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh may be members of the extended Greek and Danish royal families. However, unlike members of the Greek and Norwegian branches, Prince Philip, as the senior dynast of this branch, allegedly renounced (upon taking British citizenship) not only his right to succeed to the Greek throne, but discontinued use of his title Prince of Denmark (as well as Prince of Greece ). Nonetheless, all are members of the House of Oldenburg by agnatic descent or marriage:
- The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Elizabeth II
- The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (the Duke of Edinburgh's eldest son) and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker-Bowles, née Shand)
- Prince William of Wales (the Prince of Wales' older son)
- Prince Henry of Wales (the Prince of Wales' younger son)
- The Princess Anne, Princess Royal (the Duke of Edinburgh's only daughter)
- Peter Phillips (son of The Princess Royal)
- Zara Phillips (daughter of The Princess Royal)
- The Prince Andrew, Duke of York (the Duke of Edinburgh's second son)
- Princess Beatrice of York (the Duke of York's older daughter)
- Princess Eugenie of York (the Duke of York's younger daughter)
- The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (the Duke of Edinburgh's third and youngest son) and Sophie, Countess of Wessex ( née Rhys-Jones)
- Lady Louise Windsor (the Earl of Wessex's only daughter)
- Viscount Severn (the Earl of Wessex's only son)
Royal Family of Norway
Main article: Norwegian Royal FamilyThe Royal Family of Norway descends in the legitimate male line from Frederick VIII of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II's great-grandfather. Haakon VII of Norway, who was born Prince Carl of Denmark as Frederick VIII's younger son, was invited to reign over another nation (like George I of Greece). As with the Greek branch's descendants, members of the Norwegian line no longer have succession rights to the Danish crown, but unlike the Greek dynasts they discontinued use of Danish royal titles upon mounting their foreign throne in 1905.
Counts and Countesses of Rosenborg
There are also Danish princes who marry without consent of the Danish monarch. Marrying without consent results in loss of dynastic rights, including royal title. The ex-dynasts are then usually accorded the hereditary title "Count of Rosenborg". They, their wives, and their legitimate male-line descendants are:
- Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg (The Queen's cousin and his wife)
- Count Christian and Countess Anne-Dorthe of Rosenborg (The Queen's cousin and his wife)
- Countess Camilla, Countess Josephine, and Countess Feodora of Rosenborg (Count Christian's daughters)
- Count Ulrik and Countess Tove of Rosenborg (The Queen's second cousin and his wife)
- Count Philip of Rosenborg (Count Ulrik's son)
- Countess Katharina of Rosenborg (Count Ulrik's daughter)
- Countess Charlotte of Rosenborg (The Queen's second cousin)
- Countess Ruth of Rosenborg (The wife of Count Flemming, the Queen's third cousin)
- Count Axel and Countess Jutta of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
- Count Carl Johan and Count Alexander of Rosenborg (Count Axel's sons)
- Countess Julie and Countess Désirée of Rosenborg (Count Axel's daughters)
- Count Birger and Countess Lynne of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
- Countess Benedikte of Rosenborg (Count Birger's daughter)
- Count Carl Johan and Countess Colette of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's son and his wife)
- Countess Caroline and Countess Josefine of Rosenborg (Count Carl Johan's daughters)
- Countess Désirée of Rosenborg (Count Flemming's daughter)
- Countess Karin of Rosenborg (Widow of Count Christian, third cousin of the Queen)
- Count Valdemar of Rosenborg (Count Christian's son)
- Count Nicolai of Rosenborg (Cou
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