Danish Royal Family

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).

Members

Main members

The Danish Royal Family includes:
* HM The Queen
* HRH The Prince Consort (The Queen's husband)
* TRH The Crown Prince and Crown Princess (The Queen's son and his wife)
** HRH Prince Christian (The Crown Prince's son)
* HRH Prince Joachim (The Queen's son)
** HH Prince Nikolai (Prince Joachim's elder son)
**HH Prince Felix (Prince Joachim's younger son)
* HRH Princess Benedikte (The Queen's sister)
* HM Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes (The Queen's sister)
* HH Princess Elisabeth (The Queen's cousin)
* HH Princess Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg (Prince Joachim's ex-wife)

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:
* HSH The Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's husband)¹** HSH The Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's son)
** HSH Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's elder daughter)
** Count Jefferson-Friedrich 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 )
** HSH Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Princess Benedikte's younger daughter)

Royal Family of Greece

The 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 George I of Greece was born a Danish prince. So, they could be considered members of the Royal Family, but their connections are so loose that they remain relatively unconnected to the family. The following are exceptions due to their relation to Queen Anne-Marie:
* HM King Constantine II of the Hellenes (Queen Anne-Marie's husband)
** TRH The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Greece (Queen Anne-Marie's eldest son and his wife)
*** TRH Prince Constantine Alexios, Prince Achileas Andreas, and Prince Odysseas Kimon of Greece and Denmark (The Crown Prince's sons)
*** HRH Princess Maria Olympia of Greece and Denmark (The Crown Prince's daughter)
** HRH Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie's second son)
** HRH Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie's youngest son)
** HRH Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark and Carlos Morales Quintana (Queen Anne-Marie's elder daughter and her husband)
** HRH 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 Greee and Denmark, although they are not descended from Queen Anne-Marie:
*HM Queen Sofia of Spain (By coincidence King Constantine's sister and Queen Anne-Marie's sister-in-law.)
*HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Royal Family of Norway

Due to the current descent of all Norwegian royalty from Haakon VII of Norway, who was born a Danish prince and asked to rule a nation similarly to George I of Greece, the Royal Family of Norway is theoretically royalty of Denmark.

Counts and Countesses of Rosenborg

There are also Princes who marry without consent. Marrying without consent results in a loss of royal title and they are then entitled (along with their children) to be called Count or Countess of Rosenborg. They, their wives, and their 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 Feoodora 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 Josephien 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 (Count Valdemar's son)
*** Countess Marie of Rosenborg (Count Valdemar's daughter)
** Countess Marina of Rosenborg (Count Christian's daughter)

Line of succession

Main article: Succession to the Danish Throne

Denmark formerly followed Salic law (meaning that only males could inherit the throne) before the law was changed to primogeniture in 1953, meaning that females could inherit, but only if they had no brothers. The current line of succession is:

# HRH The Crown Prince Frederik# HRH Prince Christian# HRH Prince Joachim# HH Prince Nikolai# HH Prince Felix# HRH Princess Benedikte²# HH Princess Elisabeth

Notes

¹Prince Richard and his children are accurately styled as His or Her Serene Highness, but they are referred to in Danish courts as Hans or Hendes Højhed (His or Her Highness) as there is no Danish equivalent to Serene Highness.

²Princess Benedikte's children have no succession rights. This is because the marriage consent given to her had very specific provisions; the provisions said that if Benedikte ever became the heiress-presumptive, she and her husband would have to take permanent residence in Denmark and her husband would have to become a naturalizied Danish citizen, and her children would only have succession rights if they applied for naturalization upon reaching adult hood, and took up residence in Denmark: (a) at the time of where he (or she) would become the immediate heir to the throne, and (b) no later than when they reach the age of mandatory schooling under Danish law. Since the children are all well past the mandatory schooling age, they have no succession rights.

Queen Anne-Marie has no succession rights as she became the Queen of another country.

See also

*Line of succession to the British Throne
*Line of succession to the Norwegian Throne
*Line of succession to the Swedish Throne
*Line of succession to the Monegasque Throne
*Line of succession to the Dutch Throne
*List of Succession to the Belgian Throne

External links

* Royal Danish Orders. Unofficial site. Pictures of the Order of Dannebrog and the Order of Dannebrog.