King Christian IX's Family - Descendants of the Daughters

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    King Christian IX of Denmark is known as the fathe rin law of Europe. His 6 children inherited, married into or were appointed to monarchies all over the continent. Between them they gave Christian and his Queen Louise 39 grandchildren and many more decedents who would occupied 9 different European thrones - Denmark of course, but also Norway, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Russia, Romania, and Luxembourg. They spanned 128 years of history Prince Albert Victor being born in 1864 and Princess Margaret of Bourbon-Parma living to see 1992. Among them, they fought on both sides of two world wars, won and lost various thrones, married their cousins and had many lurid affairs.
    Here are the stories of the children of Christian IX’s three Daughters.
    Alexandra, Queen of the United Kingdom
    Dagmar, Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
    Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Cumberland
    Sources:
    En kongelig familie A Royal Family (2003) films by Anna Lerche & Marcus Mandal
    en.wikipedia.org
    www.britannica...
    www.englishmona...
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    Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...)
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  • @warmporridge882
    @warmporridge882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +490

    Kudos to the Woman who held george while he died. Such an act of kindness to not leave a dying man alone

    • @denbesten25
      @denbesten25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Maria Feodorovna found the woman and talked to her and thanked her.

    • @warmporridge882
      @warmporridge882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@denbesten25 thank you for that piece of information. That is wonderful to know

    • @CrystalChauActor
      @CrystalChauActor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Q

    • @Hailey_Robinson33
      @Hailey_Robinson33 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wonder who the Woman was?
      Do any of you know?

    • @911nmg
      @911nmg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I worked at a nicu in Spain for a while. Some kids are abandoned by their family, mostly kids of drug-adict mothers that kept using during pregnancy.
      When it was noticed that one of those kids was not going to make it, someone voluntered to hold them while they died.
      I did it once, my coleagues took the tubes out and I held him against my skin rubbing his back slowly for around 45 minutes until the machines stopped beeping.
      I'm glad I could help that tiny one to have peace in his last moments

  • @marypomona1036
    @marypomona1036 4 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    It’s crazy how him and Queen Victoria basically have the same family tree

    • @makjusufbegovic8186
      @makjusufbegovic8186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      At one point, Christian IX had a crush on Victoria but she was more interested in Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It took him some time to get over her, but at least they were the grandparents of George V of the UK.

    • @josephblack7307
      @josephblack7307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's called incest!

    • @lookupdownAni
      @lookupdownAni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      They were also cousins. Queen Victoria, King Christian and Queen Louise of Denmark were descendants of King George II of Great Britain. He was their great great grandfather.

    • @juliesarnoff-clark9543
      @juliesarnoff-clark9543 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@makjusufbegovic8186 oioopoooioooooooooiio oiiipoiiiii iiiiioiiiio iii ooo

    • @maryannangros8834
      @maryannangros8834 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who him?

  • @Fubs_the_queen
    @Fubs_the_queen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    I’d never seen the portrait of Alexandra and Alexei holding her pearls. It’s so tender and lovely.
    So sad that he and Maria haven’t been properly buried, like the bodies are RIGHT THERE. Just give them some dignity for Christ’s sake.

    • @Laramaria2
      @Laramaria2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That portrait broke my heart! I feel bad for them... 😭

    • @Maridun50
      @Maridun50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      They have ALL been reburied: Zar Nicolai, his zarina and their 5 children.
      They have been buried in St Peter and Paul cathedral.

    • @bdp6542
      @bdp6542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Estrid Melissa I’m not so sure about that. The last updates from the church are that they still require more genetic evidence before a burial can take place

    • @eileendover3938
      @eileendover3938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Maridun50 as of 2018, Alexei and either Anastasia or Maria (no positive ID of who is who) are still unburied. Their bones remain in the state archives due to Church political games.

  • @princekrazie
    @princekrazie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    That moment when some of them are repeated from the Queen Vic’s grandchildren video🤣🤣🤣

    • @julieruann
      @julieruann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      They are all connected. The European royal tree only had a few branches. Thanks to Queen Elizabeth's father, they stopped all that nonsense.

    • @unicornasaurusrex55
      @unicornasaurusrex55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah she does that a lot I still like her videos though

    • @makaelaischillin
      @makaelaischillin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Julie Scales Phillip and Elizabeth are 3rd cousins....

    • @747Sean
      @747Sean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@zoezhang5413 they’re second cousins through Christian IX I think

    • @keodi1
      @keodi1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@747Sean no, second cousins once removed, as Phillip's grandfather George I, was a sibling of Queen Elizabeth II's great grandmother Queen consort Alexandra.

  • @tanvi2011luv
    @tanvi2011luv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +497

    Why are these video so addicting???? Someone send help, I might binge these again

    • @tanvi2011luv
      @tanvi2011luv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Aesthethic Adam McCartney me too!!

    • @ace-vb7lw
      @ace-vb7lw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love this series so much

    • @MarshalltonUMC792
      @MarshalltonUMC792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is at least the third time watching these!

    • @oscard2994
      @oscard2994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Just surrender, make yourself comfy and enjoy it, with a pot of tea and a few slices of cake.

    • @LucieCornelia
      @LucieCornelia 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

  • @jaybeetee5272
    @jaybeetee5272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Re: Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. As stated in the video, she died in Ontario, Canada - I believe near Toronto.
    Two years ago, the Smiths Falls Museum had an exhibit with a number of her personal effects and artwork. It was quite a coup for such a tiny small-town museum, located very close to where I grew up! But it seems after she died, a number of her items went to friends of hers, and either those friends or their descendants now live in Brockville, Ontario, which is about a 45 minute drive from the aforementioned museum and about a 90 minute drive from Ottawa.
    Having long been interested in the Russian Imperial Family, and having found Olga's story particularly fascinating, I thought it was pretty cool to be able to see her things at this small little museum in the middle of nowhere!

    • @Gameflyer001
      @Gameflyer001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      She died in Toronto, and is buried at the York Cemetery (with her husband and both sons), in the North York area of the city. She died just seven months after her sister, Xenia.

  • @t.r.luxx1311
    @t.r.luxx1311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    If I don't come out of quarantine with a history degree then I haven't spent my time wisely

  • @Alusnovalotus
    @Alusnovalotus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Grand Duchess Olga was my favorite. She had such and adventurous life and easy and warm smile. 😁

    • @gogaioan
      @gogaioan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My favourite is Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria! She was the sweetest and kindest of them❤💫

    • @sananoor6616
      @sananoor6616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I wonder why Olga and her mother didn’t get along if her mother was so adaptable and sweet??

    • @isobelduncan
      @isobelduncan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sananoor6616 Alix actually struggled to adapt to the strict and orthodox Russian court.

    • @zzzbbbooo
      @zzzbbbooo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sananoor6616 Alexandra was not adaptable nor sweet.

  • @summeroflove394
    @summeroflove394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Tsar Nicholas and King George V could be twins. They look so alike.

  • @p.r.sdenmark6149
    @p.r.sdenmark6149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Note about Norway. At that time Norway was in union with Sweden, not Denmark😊

    • @gogaioan
      @gogaioan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was confused about that! Thanks🥰

    • @keodi1
      @keodi1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      correct.

  • @marasandbothe5678
    @marasandbothe5678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    You won't believe how I've been flexing in school during my last history lessons :)

  • @erii.bunbun
    @erii.bunbun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Idk why but I cried when I saw Grand Duchess Olga's smiling pictures.
    She seems so happy and warm like everybody's kind grandma.

  • @niyatis0207
    @niyatis0207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    The videos of this channel are very addictive and I can glady add this video to the list. The last two are my absolute favs. King Christian the ninth did have fascinating descendants.

  • @albertgeorgestorace1312
    @albertgeorgestorace1312 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    In 1905 Norway dissolved the unpopular union with Sweden which had been imposed on Norway in 1814 and NOT Denmark. Before 1814 Denmark and Norway were ruled by the Danish Crown. Therefore it is not surprising that the Norwegians chose the Danish Prince Carl who changed his name to the more Norwegian Haakon.

  • @Laramaria2
    @Laramaria2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Nicholas: we are in the middle of a war with Germany! I'm going to the front line and lead my army!
    People: but them, who will be in charge of Russia while you're gone?
    Nicholas: my GERMAN wife and the mystical weird man, Rasputin!
    Good call, Nicholas... Good call... 😒

    • @agatha6999
      @agatha6999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      People: RIOT
      Nicholas: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?!
      Wife: Take a wild guess

  • @catosullivan6790
    @catosullivan6790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    George V aaaalmost made Ireland our own nation.. he just created the republic of ireland, they kept 6 counties and still have them today - Northern Ireland is the worlds oldest colony it just isnt spoken about abroad for some reason. Love your videos so much

  • @Tubewings
    @Tubewings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    5:57; Norway was in a union with Sweden at the time, not Denmark. The Denmark-Norway union dissolved in 1814.

  • @sananoor6616
    @sananoor6616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    This video was great!! Just a suggestion for an upcoming video can you do the children of tsar Nicholas the second, Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia and Alexei. There story is so sweet and yet so tragic and I would love to learn more about them!!

  • @dinis1210
    @dinis1210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great video as always! I think you would love to look up the story of the daughters of King Michael (Miguel) of Portugal. He went to exile and had 6 daughters which married all throughout Europe. Some of the families mentioned here also descent from these 6 ladies!

  • @adijankarajic2221
    @adijankarajic2221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Did you know that Victoria, daughter of Edward VII,Was The childhood crush of Nicholas II of Russia

    • @andreashane9549
      @andreashane9549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      omg? that would have been such a plot twist though

  • @getevandalized
    @getevandalized 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    I’m just here for the Romanovs honestly

    • @fredrika27
      @fredrika27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Personally, I think that we shouldn't martyr them! The Czar's poor leadership led to the death of his family, whom paid for the Czar's crimes! Let's not forget that!

    • @kenny808kine8
      @kenny808kine8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@fredrika27 as an avid history buff, who's studied this stuff most of my life...in my free time....maturity has shown me alot. Horrible choices, especially when you have the wealth and people around you to do better. Totally out of touch! It was all so awful, but their failure to rise above naivete and Victorian superficial expectations, and the whole imperial/God complex was a disaster!

    • @fredrika27
      @fredrika27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kenny808kine8 I totally agree with you! What's worse Queen Elizabeth has also made poor choices from the beginning of her reign, yet we are to be full of praise for these families who just don't get it! I think the Swedish and Norwegian royal families get it and are very down to earth which will bold their houses well! You don't hear about the grey coats stopping their royals happiness and choice of wives!

    • @Nikolaj11
      @Nikolaj11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@fredrika27 I don't think you have to martyr someone to feel pity at the fate that befell them, especially the children. It's completely possible to accept that the Romanovs were flawed rulers, and the brutal murders of their kin were horrible, both.

    • @fredrika27
      @fredrika27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Nikolaj11 I understand what you are saying about the children. However, I have noticed over the last few years, people calling for the return of the royal family to Russia, which I've visited! I've nothing against the monarchy, but everything against government using the family to deflect from Russia's social and economic problems. Not only that, many, not all, Russian royalists are also white supremacists--as if we need more people like that in the world!

  • @cjinmalaragz
    @cjinmalaragz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    my grandfather enjoys watching this channel so much! ❤❤❤

  • @purplexninjamom
    @purplexninjamom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Do Descendents of the Sons of the Daughters
    And Descendents of the Daughters of the Daughters
    This is slowly turning into a Legacy Challenge (SIMS4) :)

    • @davidcorruthers78
      @davidcorruthers78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s way too many people

    • @purplexninjamom
      @purplexninjamom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidcorruthers78 Yeah, that´s kind of the point :)

  • @gidzmobug2323
    @gidzmobug2323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Correction on Louise: she hat two daughters and a stillborn son. Victoria rewrote the Letters Patent for the Fife Dukedom to allow Louise's daughters to succeed.

  • @profile8104
    @profile8104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This channel is so underrated. I love your videos and I never thought i’d enjoy learning about this stuff, but you do it so well! Keep it up PLEASE :)

  • @kenny808kine8
    @kenny808kine8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I still love Victoria, but she comes across as overbearing, shrewish, and at least she could be, but her grandchildren and beyond lives show how debilitating her helicopter monarching played out. Sad about Albert, he may have evened her out although they had their rows!

    • @Ikajo
      @Ikajo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I kind of get the feeling she actually hated children and only had them because it was required of her.

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Ikajo It is likely that she had post-partum depressions and couldn't connect to her children.

    • @Ikajo
      @Ikajo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Furienna Doesn't explain why she thought her daughter-in-law shouldn't care for _her_ own children. And even with post-partum you can connect later. Not doing so is a choice.

    • @kenny808kine8
      @kenny808kine8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Ikajo literally, they didn't have contraception and she tried things. I think one of the old "remedies" was cow dung on a woman's genitals the next morning.

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ikajo Well, it is well-known that mothers-in-law can be quite nasty. Victoria had never been a doting mother herself either, so it was hard for her to understand why any other woman was one. That said, it is not like she never connected to her children when they were grown up.

  • @Muppz
    @Muppz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thyra is easier to pronounce if you say the "Thy" like the beginning of the word "Tiara". It's a beautiful name, my great paternal grandmother was named that as well. Thank you for making these videos, they have kept me great company since covid began.

  • @cheyenneysewijn7343
    @cheyenneysewijn7343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is the channel I have needed since I was ten years old xxx

  • @elizabethclarence3817
    @elizabethclarence3817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i’m here! haven’t even watched it yet and i already know it’ll be a good video

  • @christinaj.jensen4805
    @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You should make more videos on Danish royals. Such fascinating history they have:
    Christian the X who unpopularly overthrew the government in 1920, but was a figure of hope during WW2.
    Christian the VII, who was mentally unstable, and his wife Queen Caroline Mathilde, who had a well known affair, that caused the change of the monarchy up to the time before democracy.
    Christian the IV, without whom the Danish capitol of Copenhagen would not look like it does today.
    Frederik the III, who instated absolute monarchy and went to war against Sweden.
    Queen Louise, Christian the IXs wife, who actually had a bigger claim to the Danish throne than her husband.
    Queen Ingrid, the Consort of King Frederik the IX and the mother of the current Queen of Denmark.
    And far far more.

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a fairly recent feature movie about the Danish queen who had an affair with a German aristocrat -I think his name was von Struensee.

    • @christinaj.jensen4805
      @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kalo Arepo His name was Johann Friedrich Struense and the movie is called “En Kongelig Affære” (“A royal affair” in English). I know this movie very well. I’m Danish myself, after all ;)

    • @christinaj.jensen4805
      @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And he wasn’t an aristocrat. He was the King’s Doctor and from poor conditions. As Well as Enlightened.

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@christinaj.jensen4805 I watched the movie about a year ago and have forgotten some of the details but the queen in question was the daughter of the English king if I remember correctly and she was quite liberal whereas the Danish monarchy was very conservative and ancien regime at the time.Struensee was a great reformer but lost his life because of the affair.I'm Australian and of course so is your crown princess Mary.There has been a mini series on TV about how Mary and Christian met at the Sydney Olympics.

    • @christinaj.jensen4805
      @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kalo Arepo yes, she was liberal and the Danish system ancient and backwards (at the time). It took her and Christian the VIIs son, the later Frederik the VI, to reinstate the more liberal reforms, that Struense had laid the Foundation for. They were both punished when the Dowager Queen and a Minister named Ove Høegh-Guldberg completed a coup. He was executed and she was exiled to Celle in Germany, where she died a few years later. Cut off from her two children. The daughter, Louise Augusta, was always believed to have been Struense’s daughter, but it was never proven. Her brother was always very protective of her and loved her very much. When Frederik died, without leaving an heir to the throne of Denmark, she tried to put her own son forward as a potential candidate, but it ended being Frederik’s cousin, the grandson of the Dowager Empress from the movie, who ended on the throne. But that Line didn’t last long, because his son too had no heirs and then King Christian the IX came to the throne.
      We LOVE Mary, btw. The Crown Prince and her husband is Frederik and their oldest son is Christian. I know it’s confusing that all but one of our Kings since the 15th century, had the name Christian or Frederik. But Mary is the Best thing that happened to Frederik and their children shows a bright future for the future of the monarchy.

  • @jardon8636
    @jardon8636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    King Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel were second cousins to each other and third cousins to Queen Victoria.& her husband consort Prince albert of Saxe Coburg..
    Prince Albert and Empress Victoria of India were also first cousins too each other.....
    their common ancestor was Otto I (912 - 973), Otto the Great : German king - Holy Roman Emperor & Duke of saxony....

  • @Sophie-lp1bw
    @Sophie-lp1bw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    im telling rn i am so dedicated to this channel like these niche history topics give me so much joy

  • @lemontague3985
    @lemontague3985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @lindsayholiday YOU ARE A LEGEND IN MY HOUSEHOLD!!! Thank You for blessing us with your talent and information

  • @UnknownSchleswiger
    @UnknownSchleswiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just a slight correction Britain did not declare war on Germany because of france, but the UK had guaranteed Belgium independence, and when The German Empire walking through Belgium as a part of The Schlieffen Plan.

  • @jnicholas-windsoramyisrael46
    @jnicholas-windsoramyisrael46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    HIH Grand Duchess Xenia lived in, Wilderness House in the Grounds of Hampton Court Palace. She lived there until her death in 1960.

  • @floraposteschild4184
    @floraposteschild4184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It seems like the girls inherited most of the brains in the family. Glad that they and their descendants found some happiness in this life.

  • @emmytully9328
    @emmytully9328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Im from Fife!! I absolutely love your videos, thank you for creating them x

  • @fromgillianwithlove
    @fromgillianwithlove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    omg i'm so early 😮 i love your content so much!! 💓

  • @giorgiamoi8850
    @giorgiamoi8850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love your videos so much that the second I get the notification I don’t hesitate and I click it to watch ♥️

  • @Flowerfull-mr2fr
    @Flowerfull-mr2fr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love all of your videos! Your voice is so calming and I actually learn something from them! Keep up the good work!

  • @Lucy0809
    @Lucy0809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks Lindsay xxxx

  • @makjusufbegovic8186
    @makjusufbegovic8186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great video Lindsay but I’m just wondering, why was Thyra’s children’s sections so short and summarized except for Ernest Augustus (Kaiser Wilhelm’s son-in-law)? It doesn’t seem fair especially when the stories of the children of Queen Alexandra and Tsarina Maria Feodorvna were throughly described.

    • @florenceoztas6186
      @florenceoztas6186 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      True.

    • @Suzette1122
      @Suzette1122 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed it was super summarized as compared to the eldest 2 daughters

  • @iseanmermaid1125
    @iseanmermaid1125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love your channel!

  • @khadijahmachdar2855
    @khadijahmachdar2855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Too bad that Nikolai ignores Xenia's advice :(

  • @akshajs3760
    @akshajs3760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great content Lindsay!!! Keep it up!!

  • @larsmunch4536
    @larsmunch4536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alexandra, daughter of Thyra, married grand duke Friederich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Friederich Franz's elder sister Alexandrine was married to Alexandra's cousin, king Christian 10th of Denmark. Friederich Franz's younger sister Cecile was married to crown prince Wilhelm, who was supposed to be Emperor Wilhelm 3rd of Germany, and who was a brother of Victoria Louise, who became married to Alexandra's youngest brother Ernst August.

  • @aislingneville7333
    @aislingneville7333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Xenia was my great grand aunts grandmother. She was awesome.

  • @andipopa1647
    @andipopa1647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your so informed. I love your work. Can you please talk in a future video about all the princesses of Wales?

  • @rachelnaomilittleton
    @rachelnaomilittleton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LINDSAY BACK AT IT AGAIN

  • @PerfectlyImperfect93
    @PerfectlyImperfect93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for another great video Lindsay!💕

  • @torgeirbrandsnes1916
    @torgeirbrandsnes1916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Norway did not want to be ruled by Sweden in 1905. Norway had been under Danish rule from, 1317-1814. Harald the fair haired managed to unify Norway in 900 and something. Did we ever get the short end of the stick. Maud and her king was not living together I think from the 1920s until her death in 1938. King Olav V name was Alexander.

    • @Maridun50
      @Maridun50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In 1905 Norway elected the son of then Crown Prince Frederik (8) of Denmark, as their new king. He was Prince Carl and was married to Princess Maud. He became King before his father did and took the name Haakon 7.

  • @marinazagrai1623
    @marinazagrai1623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What I was going to say was, how come the Russian Orthodox had better sense than allowing first (if any) cousins to marry. The Catholic and Protestant churches allowed cousins to marry, not to mention the Hapsburgs with their incest?

    • @Gameflyer001
      @Gameflyer001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Russian Orthodox Church only banned marriages between first cousins. More distant cousins were granted permission to do so.

    • @elizavetamainfield15
      @elizavetamainfield15 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's Habsburg and it was not incent. It was inbreeding, just like the others, just in a more excessive amount

    • @dolphineachonga555
      @dolphineachonga555 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The churches' leadership barely live up to Biblical standards. They've aprroved far worse things in the course of history.

  • @CocoCrispieeee
    @CocoCrispieeee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grand Duchess Tatiana is probably the prettiest royal I’ve even seen. In the full family portrait, she’s seated to the far right. So poised and elegant.

  • @shannonmangan1871
    @shannonmangan1871 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos about the Danish royal family are so fascinating . Thanks for doing these :)

  • @805Bruin
    @805Bruin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Federica of Hanover is the grandmother of the King of Spain through his mother Queen Sofia

  • @chelseaforbes9103
    @chelseaforbes9103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I must admit when George the 5th he did not saving Nikolai and his family it shows he was a coward

    • @jardon8636
      @jardon8636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      well there was a recent documentary in UK and germany about this event, the kaiser wilhelm II tsar nicholas II cousin :
      allowed the bolsheviks to travel through the german empire....by removing russia from the war, the effort could be concentrated on the west...
      he acordding to reports... in 1917 felt physically sick and regreted the decision, he meant to remove russia from the war, but not the assination of his own cousins and their family...
      George V and his wife Mary of teck wanted to help tsar nicholas II but only discreetly under a covert operation not in open support, the tsar was widely viewed by british media as a tyrant, also this could have provoced strikes,civil disorder in the UK against the monarchy etc...
      , british intelligence was sent by the request of george V
      too late and with limited information
      the team was sent via georgia into russia* the october revolution took everyone by suprise....
      as the provisional government( the same goverment that provided for the protection of the tsar and his personal maintance was dismissed or left* in a hurry)
      dramatic overthrow of the provisional government(so the chaotic and hysterical scenes in the big cities and civil war ongoing between supporters of the tsar and the red army* revolutionaries and the divided others ...socialists* et al)
      the british simply did not have good inteligence, the mission was a faliure of wrong information and lacking time: totally disorganised to ...the plan was to rescue the tsar and his family and be taken on a british ship to crown colony*,
      the mission was aborted after the shocking news came of the assination of the tsar ..
      george V did regret not acting sooner, he was hesitant for political reasons... princess olga romanov : also recounts the same romanov story during the re-burial of the romanovs in the st peter and paul fotress in the kremlin... many of the romanovs regretted their family relations ,not doing enough too save the children...

    • @lukewilliams1666
      @lukewilliams1666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A man has to put his close family above the needs of his extended one.

    • @zzzbbbooo
      @zzzbbbooo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nicholas was the coward for not insisting his children, daughters at least, were sent away to safety until the end of the war - something that happened to a lot of families in those days and in WWII. He could have saved them - but he didn't. It certainly was not George's fault.

    • @dolphineachonga555
      @dolphineachonga555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just politics. To keep his own head and those of his family, firmly on their shoulders.

    • @alicianelson1252
      @alicianelson1252 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saving them would be a war crime

  • @SJPena89
    @SJPena89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I absolutely love your videos! Never miss them! Thank you!

  • @jacquelinea3358
    @jacquelinea3358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So much tragedy in all directions in these families. On a lighter note, I wonder how Princess Alexandra, later the British Queen, ended up with those startling blue eyes when her siblings had brown eyes. Check out how very much her sisters Dagmar (Russian Empress Maria) and Thyra (Princess of Hanover) looked alike, being shorter and having those tremendous overbites. Alexandra had just a passing resemblance to them. I guess she looked a bit more like her ill-fated brother, King George of Greece.

  • @Blackcatsaregoodluck11
    @Blackcatsaregoodluck11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love this channel 💖

  • @gijsneplenbroek
    @gijsneplenbroek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love your video's a lot.
    I am from the Netherlands so I would love to see something about the Dutch royal family

  • @poples5799
    @poples5799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A small correction, Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, only to be "given" into a union with Sweden (spoils of the Napoleonic wars). The union dissolved in 1905 was the union with Sweden :)

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph5906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The most interesting documentary I have ever seen! Well done indeed!

  • @gailtimm3854
    @gailtimm3854 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have truly enjoyed the history of the Kings & Queens. What good searches of the history. I just finished my genealogy family tree and have discovered in 1100 who I am related to in the English line. The Spencer family I am related to in that year. I will continue listening. Thank you.

  • @colinberry12
    @colinberry12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Norway was in a union with Sweden, not Denmark. If Norway had been in a union with Denmark, I don’t think the Norwegian government would have offered the Norwegian crown to a prince of a country they had just broken away from

  • @sherryt9152
    @sherryt9152 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m enjoying all these videos. You have a lovely way of presenting the stories of the royal families.

  • @annbsirius1703
    @annbsirius1703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well done video!

  • @the8thgemmer467
    @the8thgemmer467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The heads of state of the commonwealth are not necessarily the queen. For example, I live in Cyprus, which doesn’t have the British monarch as its own. The monarchy was retained in sime commonwealth states, such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Jamaica, Australia and Canada.

  • @bruwerbruwer3805
    @bruwerbruwer3805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you

  • @staceyrogers7807
    @staceyrogers7807 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have just found your videos and love listening to them. Thank you for sharing all these great historical stories. I was never into history until recently. I am nearly 50 now lol 😊

  • @pessimisticideas3075
    @pessimisticideas3075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video! Many Thanks!

  • @annabethsarskullflower9623
    @annabethsarskullflower9623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another amazing educational video thank you xx

  • @smequestrianart-qj2ee
    @smequestrianart-qj2ee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome video!!

  • @maii579
    @maii579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done, another wonderful video!

  • @ennykraft
    @ennykraft 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    To anyone who is interested in a more in-depth documentary, there's a 6-part series called A Royal Family. It's excellent and has interviews with several of his descendents like Queen Margrethe or Prince Michael of Kent. th-cam.com/video/qN9ViNXpY7g/w-d-xo.html

    • @jacquelinea3358
      @jacquelinea3358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A Royal Family is a GREAT series with wonderful interviews of the descendants from all over Europe. I am a fan of Queen Margrethe current queen of Denmark, in particular. 😊
      One word of caution, however. There are some glitches in several of the videos where long sections of audio are missing. You can see the people talking but can't hear them. So frustrating! But there's enough to hear, see and love in the series that I still highly recommend it.

    • @danielleporter1829
      @danielleporter1829 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love "A Royal Family" documentary, I've watched it 5 or six times

    • @graphiteandglitter
      @graphiteandglitter ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielleporter1829 same here 😀

  • @DollsAndSpooks
    @DollsAndSpooks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The life of the royals are certainly colorful

  • @veronicaandtheschuylersist9037
    @veronicaandtheschuylersist9037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What do you use for the videos

  • @amberwilcox2416
    @amberwilcox2416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the content! Keep it comin' please 💗

  • @racheldianeames3729
    @racheldianeames3729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Please do a video on the descendants of king Christian of Denmark's sons

    • @christinaj.jensen4805
      @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Depends on which Christian ;) there are 10 of them :P but if it's Christian the IX, she says at the end of the video there will be one next.

  • @mangot589
    @mangot589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    👍 video. As always, illustrations are wonderful . The marriage ones are especially lovely. Photos, I haven’t seen many of them, even though I read quite a bit about royalty. You’ve actually gotten me much more interested in the Nordic royal families! Poor Tzarina. Any mother would do anything to help her child. He actually DID help the boy, even though nobody knows how/why. Cure? No. But to hear his screaming in pain for days? And he somehow stopped it...I’m not totally convinced the population wouldn’t have accepted one of the daughters, as a leader. They DID have Catherine the Great, after all. Personally, I think if they hadn’t kept the hemophilia a secret, things may have turned out differently.🤷‍♀️. The population may have had sympathy. I also remember the fake Anastasia, Anna. This was before DNA, and followed it. A lot of people were completely convinced, including some of the Romanovs. None of us knew for SURE. The bodies hadn’t been found, etc., and when they were, well, there WERE those two missing bodies! A fascinating story. It went on for YEARS I know it’s not your forte, but....

    • @kathleenmuchka2559
      @kathleenmuchka2559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They have all been found now. Such a sad ending.

  • @ninas992
    @ninas992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great vid! 😊 Thank you

  • @aniretakke
    @aniretakke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh, the general history us so unright about Nikolai II! He tried his best and was really afraid of harming anyone's feelings, that's why there was never a desicive 'no' from him to any of the ideas expressed by his courtmen. Ksenia's husband Alexander Mihailovich (who also was her first cousin ONCE REMOVED and not just first cousin, as is said in this video) wrote in his memoirs that Nikolai had certain qualities which made him a marvellous person and a weak tzar at the same time.

  • @madhimalar6129
    @madhimalar6129 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is Krisha I love the information you give Lindsay holiday😍

  • @forgottenartform
    @forgottenartform 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love listening to your videos while I'm studying :)

  • @jardon8636
    @jardon8636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    fascinating, lindsay has outdone herself ....
    great video as always...
    is there a tv series of christian IX in danish,english subtitles...
    you would think so, as he is relative of Victoria empress of India....two important royal ancestors of many 21st european royals...

  • @shivoulrei007
    @shivoulrei007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really love your videos. Keep it coming!

  • @WezelLispProductions
    @WezelLispProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Didnt queen Elizabeth ii have an uncle who was mentally disabled so they just kind if locked him in the north away from everyone because queen Victoria said having a disabled son associated with the crown would be terrible. So when people asked about him, the family either acted like he didnt exist or acted like he died?

    • @christinaj.jensen4805
      @christinaj.jensen4805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      His name was Prince John, the youngest son of King George the V. He had epilepsi, not exactly a a disease that would cause you to go mad, but have seizures. He was kept away for his own protection. He died not having reached adulthood. So maybe when they said he did die, he was dead.

    • @pedanticradiator1491
      @pedanticradiator1491 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Prince John was born after Victoria had died

  • @bethtyree6346
    @bethtyree6346 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you sharing this

  • @gregoryryan3088
    @gregoryryan3088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love your channel so much lindsay please make a video about african and americans mornachs also asian

  • @deniserichardson630
    @deniserichardson630 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely fascinating! Lindsey can recite the phone book and make it exciting!!

  • @bruwerbruwer3805
    @bruwerbruwer3805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Keep up with the videos

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I want all of those outfits

  • @aprilbrown8790
    @aprilbrown8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really enjoyed learning about this family tree

  • @Veronicamtn
    @Veronicamtn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can you you do Mary queen of scots

  • @jonathanlukasovich8589
    @jonathanlukasovich8589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grand Duke Mikhail Alexanderovich Romanov was actually offered the tsardom position by his older brother Tsar Nikolas ll Alexanderovich Romanov but refused the position the same day and abdicated the right. He was still murdered by Bolsheviks communists along with the Tsarevich family and various other family members and high ranking aristocrats as well.

  • @gokuson2590
    @gokuson2590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you this is so interesting. You did a great job.

  • @Jennifer-wc5fs
    @Jennifer-wc5fs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Please do more French revolution related content

  • @Axel-hw6hk
    @Axel-hw6hk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Last time I was this early King Christian IX still wasn’t heir to the danish throne

  • @lekenaackerman9367
    @lekenaackerman9367 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Princess Louise had two girls and a boy. The boy was named Alistair and he was stillborn.

  • @naledistarfield
    @naledistarfield ปีที่แล้ว

    Small point. The 1931/32 Act that gave more independence to Britain's 'white' colonies (Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa) may have maintained the British sovereign as head of state in the first three states, but not in South Africa. Our head of state is the current President. And yes, we are just a glad as any other member state, to belong to the Commonwealth.

  • @marinellam9827
    @marinellam9827 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s the 3rd video you made about this family that I watch and I’m obsessed by the fact I cannot do a proper family tree to link all of them and see who married someone with the same grand-parents. I might be wrong but it looks like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip more than once! Please I need a proper family tree! 😅