Danish royal consorts

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: Emma of Normandy, Ingrid of Sweden, List of Danish consorts, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Louise of Sweden, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, Isabella of Austria, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Louise of Great Britain, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Sigrid the Haughty, Philippa of England, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Sophie of Pomerania, Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Berengaria of Portugal, Christina of Saxony, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Anne Sophie Reventlow, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden, Lutgard of Salzwedel, Dagmar of Bohemia, Margaret Fredkulla, Jutta of Saxony, Helvig of Schleswig, Agnes of Brandenburg, Matilda of Holstein, Margaret Sambiria, Malmfred of Kiev, Sophia of Minsk, Euphemia of Pomerania, Gunhild of Wenden, Ingegerd of Norway, Adela of Flanders, Boedil Thurgotsdatter, Thyra, Gyda of Sweden, Helena of Sweden, Adela of Meissen, Tora Torbergsdatter, Gertrude of Bavaria, Tove of the Obotrites, Gyrid of Sweden, Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter. Excerpt: Due to unions, the queens of 1380-1814 were also queens of Norway, and the queens of 1389-1520 were also (though with interruptions) queens of Sweden. Louise of Hesse (German: , Danish: ) (7 September 1817, Kassel - 29 September 1898, Bernstorff Palace) was a German Princess and (from 15 November 1863) the queen consort to King Christian IX of Denmark. Louise of Hesse was a daughter of an ancient German princely family, the Landgraves of Hesse, but lived in Denmark from the age of three and had Danish ancestry, which made her Danish for all practical purposes. In the political and dynastic conflicts during her lifetime she found herself, mainly because of her own hereditary position, in opposition to German nationalism and protective of Danish interests. She was a daughter of Prince William of Hesse and Charlotte of Denmark (1789-1864). Her mother, a Princess of Denmark, saw her become Hereditary Princess of Denmark and then Queen of Denmark. Louise's paternal grandparents were Prince Frederick of Hesse, youngest brother of William I, Elector of Hesse, and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen; and her maternal grandparents were Sophie Frederikke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, sometime Regent of Denmark and Norway, youngest son of King Frederick V of Denmark. She was a niece of King Christian VIII, who ruled Denmark in 1839-48 and was briefly King of Norway in 1814. As such, she was very close to the succession after several individuals of the Royal House of Denmark who were elderly and childless. As children, her brother Frederik Wilhelm, sisters and she were King Christian VIII closest relatives who were likely to produce further generations. It was easy to see that the agnatic succession from King Frederick III of Denmark would probably become extinct within a generation. Louise was one of the females descended from Frederick III of Denmark and enjoyed the remainder provisions of the succession (according to the