Moreover it was a sardine sandwich and the newspaper was generously coated with the oil of the sardines. So imagine finding out that you were elected king from a greasy newspaper
Well hopefully the current White House asshole will find out the same way eating a sardine sandwich and choking on it like he’s forced America for the last four years to gag.
@@johnpickford4222 Trump's policies are great. Biden has none. Trump is a jerk, Biden is nice but has senility. Trump is the only answer. Like you said, he will choke on the election sandwich, but get the Heimlich and reelected. We have to have the jerk to make the hard decisions, versus the nice guy who is too brain dead to make any.
I really feel bad for Olga. She was only 15 when she was taken away to a strange country while she was not ready. And only a year later she baecame a mother. Must have been hard on her. But I guess that happend a lot to girls in that area.
Maybe Netflix could popularize the House of Glucksburg like they do the House of Windsor. The old ATV series, Edward the King, did a nice job highlighting Alexandra. Does Denmark have a BBC that could produce and popularize some of theses stories? They're actually even more interesting than the Windsors.
King George I of Greece's story is very impressive. Found himself becoming king of the foreign land while opening his sandwich for lunch! And, he was even determined to be Greek than the Greeks themselves. That's dedication right there. Plus, the story of the sailor prince of Denmark (Valdermar) and his tattooed wife is hilariously and lovingly adorable. They're definitely made for one another. No wonder some of his descendants really pick up his true love & passion of sea and sailing.
I feel like we need a video on Marie of Orleans. You can't just drop that she's a talented artist, rode a bull over a horse, and got tattooed. Lol. She sounds wild and I like it.
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I wanted this so much. I was so confused when drawing the relationships between the royal families of Europe. Ends up king Christian ix and queen victoria are the father in law and grandma of Europe.
Something about the picture of Alexandra, Dagmar, and Olga dressed alike and standing together just made me smile. It’s so easy to think of people who lived so long ago (and in much higher status) as just stiff, regal, and lifeless. But then they’ll do something like wearing polka dot dresses with their sister in law or posing for a picture with their little child on their back! Thank you, Lindsay, for bringing life back into these figures!
To some extent it was a technology problem old time cameras needed more exposure time to create the foto, this meant people had to stand still for longer time to make a good picture. That is why people often look so dour on old fotographies.
Wonder if he had any idea one of his descendants would go on to be the longest serving British consort in history also. The Danish royal family has a truly fascinating story, a relatively small kingdom that ended up with TREMENDOUS power and influence.
As a member of the danish jewish community, I ask: Can you make a video on the danish royal familys involvement in the rescue of danish jewry in 1943 and it's role in the resistance?
I’m just going to write down a bunch of suggest, if you use one or more of them thank you 1.margaret Beaufort The mother of Henry vii a strong figure in the war of the roses 2. The rank of Jhansi The queen who fought against the British 3. Mary queen of scots Elizabeth the firsts rival 4. Elizabeth I Gloriana 5. Elizabeth of York The white rose with the red
I'm gonna add a king to the list since I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to cover: Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulus and the man who dared to fight against western influences in South Africa
Always thought that Margaret Beaufort was probably the one who had the princes in the tower killed...it cleared the way for Henry and allowed him to marry Elizabeth of York with her legitimacy restored without threat of the male Yorks.
Ginger Kid that makes sense cause Richard already made the princes illegitimate so why did he have to kill them, Margaret Beaufort is a much more believable and likely candidate in the murder of the princes , does that mean that the tudors slandered Richard and accused him of the murder??
Nikolaj That's how it usually goes. The king has all the pressures and responsibilities, and most of the time it shortens the guy's life. The heir has to watch his step and "the spare" can be wild.
A lot of the "spare" princes became military commanders from what I've read. Sometimes however, things could get unusual and complicated because the "spare" could suddenly become king for a while if his brother had no children. A very famous example is Wilhelm I of Prussia, since his brother Frederick William IV got the throne as first-born, Wilhelm was free for a while to focus on his military career in the army and became a general (he even saved his brother from a radical uprising in 1848). However, Frederick William and his wife weren't able to have children despite trying (it's unclear why), so plans were set for Wilhelm to reign for at least a few years (he was about 64 years old when he took the throne), the joke was on them though, he lived 27 more years and died at the age of 90. In addition to being Germany's first Emperor, Wilhelm was famously one of the last monarchs to ever personally command a battle, when at 68 he oversaw the Prussian army at Koniggratz against Austria. A truly astonishing story.
David Corruthers Just to point out there is no Queen of England and hasn’t been one crowned since Queen Anne. You mean the Queen of the UK or British Queen.
Well, that's b/c Christian IX was the 'protocol prince'; he was heir designate of Denmark, chosen pretty much out of the blue from minor German nobility of his time. The reason was quite simple; the crown could only pass by semi-Salic law among the descendants of Frederick III (that is, all male-line descendants b/f any female-line descendants). Frederick VI died w/out sons (but he had 2 daughters), so the crown passed to his half-'cousin' Christian VIII. Christian VIII had only 1 son, the future Frederick VII, who had been married to Frederick VI's younger daughter, but had no children. The heir presumptive was Frederick VII's uncle, Ferdinand, who married Frederick VI's eldest daughter, but they too had no children. After Ferdinand there were no other male-line heirs of Frederick III, only female ones. The senior ones would be the descendants of Augusta, sister of Frederick VI, who had married into the House of Augustenborg (the senior cadet branch of the Oldenburg dynasty). But the Augustenborgs were German by bearing, & Augusta wasn't even the daughter of Christian VII anyway (her real father was Johann Friedrich Struensee), so her line was an easy pass. The person most closely related to Frederick VII & Ferdinand was Charlotte, princess of Hesse-Kassel (sister of Christian VIII & Ferdinand). Her son was Frederick William, landgrave of Hesse, who was probably the strongest candidate by law at the time, being of Danish upbringing. However, the end of the male-line of Frederick III didn't just have consequences for Denmark; the twin duchies of Schleswig & Holstein (held in personal union w/ Denmark) would have a new duke as well. The duchies were heritable by the male-line of Helvig of Holstein (mother of Christian I), so the next line over was the Duke of Augustenborg. This meant that Denmark would loose the duchies if they choose any of Charlotte's descendants. To avoid this, a 'compromise' candidate was considered; Christian of Glücksburg was the 3rd son of a minor German duke, descended in the male line from an even more junior branch of the Oldenburgs than the Augustenborgs were. Unlike the Duke of Augustenborg, however, Christian was raised Danish; he had been Frederick VI's nephew by-marriage, & so found royal favour that way. More importantly, he was married to Charlotte's younger daughter, Louise of Hesse-Kassel. This meant their children (Christian's heirs) were male-line Oldenburgs (eligible to inherit the duchies, but not 1st-in-line) & close relatives of Frederick VII (& thus suitable for the Danish throne), & of Danish extradition. Renunciations were procured from Charlotte, her son, her elder daughter, & the Duke of Augustenborg, all in favour of Christian of Glücksburg inheriting the Danish throne & the duchies after the death of his wife's cousin, Frederick VII. Even so, he & his family lived a quiet life, since they weren't actually welcome at the Danish court (they had no respect for Frederick VII's morganatic wife). It was ultimately for nothing; Denmark lost the duchies after two wars with Germany that they lost *badly.* Furthermore, Charlotte & her siblings weren't even blood-related to the Oldenburg dynasty! Christian VIII, Ferdinand, & Charlotte were all 'officially' fathered by Hereditary Prince Frederick, half-brother of Christian VII. But Frederick resembles his 'children' not at all; court rumor (supported by King Frederick VI himself) held Friedrich Wilhelm von Blücher to be the real father of the children; he was having an affair w/ Frederick's wife, & the children all had *his* look, not Frederick's. So the reason they don't act like royalty is b/c, well, they aren't 'real' royalty; they weren't 1st in line or even biologically related to the prior dynasty by any real degree. They were chosen out of misplaced nationalism (that held only a Danish speaker could hold the Danish throne, even tho. all the kings prior to Christian VIII spoke German as their 1st language), & a futile desire to hold onto German duchies they lost anyway. That's monarchism for ya!
Actually the Greeks with a referandom chose Prince Alfred to be the King. But the Great Powers didn't want the UK to have more influence on Greece and Queen Victoria wanted Alfred to became the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Greeks knew that with a British King they would have the backing of the World's largest empire against the Ottomans.
Your history lessons are great. I love all the little fascinating personal tidbits that made your videos a notch above other biographers. Thank you, Lindsay for my smiles...
You missed the part where Fredrick constantly cheated on Louisa. She was hated by the entirety of Danish Royal family because she wasn't someone who would just stand being treated like trash. But she was loved by the public. Though she was strict, she loved her children
Queen Nazli deserves a movie. And the same goes the life of the royals in exile. I think the Christian branch of the family is in California. However I don't know anything about the Russian Orlov descendants whereabouts.
I think it's pretty interesting that the oldest 2 sons both died at right about the same age (67 and 68), each had 8 children and both died while taking their evening stroll (even with George I with being murdered during it). Even the daughters had close similarities of life (i.e. ages, 6 kids). I wonder if Valdemar would have shared the same circumstances had he chosen to be king; he likely outlived them because he didn't.
So now I know the source of the name " Valdemar".I think I would have liked him,and his wife.Such a shame,to lose her so young.30 years is a long time to be a widower.I feel for Olga,too.Far too young to be married.
Valdemar 1st "the Great", king of Denmark 1157-1182, Valdemar 2nd "the Victorious", king of Denmark 1202-1241, Valdemar 3rd (an infant puppet king) king of Denmark 1326-1329, Valdemar 4th "A new day" or "Another day", king of Denmark 1340-1375.... So "source" is not quite correct. By the way, Valdemar 1st was great-grandson of Vladimir Monomach of Kiev and was named after him, so Valdemar is the Danish version of the Russian name Vladimir.
The Sons of King Christian IX in a nutshell *King Frederick:* Frederick: I'm waiting Some years later Frederick: Still waiting More years later Frederick: I'M STILL WAITING, GODDAMIT Another year later Frederick: FINALLY I'M KING Barely a few years later Frederick: Dammit *Vilhelm, King George:* George:*reading the newspaper* OMG I'M KING OF GREECE Arriving at Greece George: My people love me now, my name is George Years later in, the afterlife George: What have I done to them. *Prince Valdemar* Valdemar: I want to be a sailor and have a chaotic family Marie: Yes, we will do honey Someone from Norway: Do you want to be king of Norway Valdemar: No but, my nephew will be good for this position Someone from Finland: Do you want to be king of Finland Valdemar: no, thank you King Alexander: Brother-in-law do you want to be the ruler of Bulgaria? Valdemar: No, as I said, I want to be a sailor
It's so nice to hear the bigger history of Dennark 🥰 and that I still remember most of it is fantastic 🥰 love the way you say our names and the way you teach about a history from another land, thank you 🧡
Hi, I have been watching your videos for some time and I am very thankful for your way of doing them. The way of intruducing children of monarchs or royals with a lot or most relatives in different countries is just awsome, because seeing how everyone is somehow connected is better then familytree. Thank you.
5:53 the picture of "Constantine I" is wrong. This is, again, George I, Constantine's father. 6:04 This picture is not from Otto's deposition (1862), but from the September 3rd (1843) revolution, when greek people demanded constitution by Otto (and got it). 6:55 The Ionian (major) islands are seven. The map doesn't even depict Corfu which is the largest!
I think you should do a video on Mary the first of Denmark, she was a commoner from a small island of the coast of Australia, and by a chance meeting is now the future Queen
She wouldn't be Mary 1st, we had a queen Marie which is the Danish version of Mary back in 1808 (-1839) who was also queen of Norway from 1808-1814. This one was married to Frederik 6th. Mary is married to Frederik who will be nr 10 in the rows of Frederiks when he is crowned. Our queen Margrethe is still alive.
I love your videos! I think you do such an excellent job explaining history that doesn’t make it boring. Could you do a video on Anastasia and her siblings?!
And when she married and went to Sweden, she said she wasn't going to go for long walks ever again. She also was probably tired of veal cutlets and spinach.
@@annbsirius1703 yeah, I would be too. Ingeborg does have a very interesting story though. I hope there might be a video on her because she's a really fascinating royal
Prince Carl, who took the name of Haakon VII, did NOT inherit the Norwegian crown from his maternal (Swedish) uncle, Oscar II. Cf what Estrid Melissa as well as Chris Carson said in their comments a year ago. Norway declared independence from Sweden, there was some 'rumbling' but Sweden accepted it, largely because of the influence of the Swedish king, who was negative to secession but did not want to go to war against the Norwegians, whom he after all considered 'his own people', and also because the Swedish social-democrats saw it as a question of 'justice for the Norwegians'. The Norwegian crown, as a kind of peace-offering, was first of all actually offered to a younger son of the Swedish king, prince Carl, duke of Västergötland, who absolutely wanted to accept (ironically enough he had been more in favour of war to discipline Norway). He and his Danish wife, princess Ingeborg (daughter of Frederick VIII), knelt before king Oscar and asked to be allowed to say yes. But king Oscar was very hurt and said no. Norway then asked Swedish prince Carl's Danish brother-in-law, princess Ingeborg's brother, (also Carl by name,). He said yes, but only on the condition that the Norwegian people wanted him, by plebiscite. That was very successful, and he took the name Haakon, which was a well-known royal name from the Middle Ages. - There were of course some republicans in Norway at the time, but it was doubtful whether the European powers would have accepted a republican Norway easily, and prince Carl's English wife princess Maud's connections (she was a daughter of king Edward VII) strengthened their position. Her mother, Queen Alexandra, was Danish, a sister of King Frederick VIII, so Maud and Carl (--> Haakon) were first cousins. This is the way I know the story, anyway - I am not a historian. But King Haakon and Queen Maud's son, prince Olav, and one of the Duke and Duchess of Västergötland's daughters, princess Märtha (who was of course his first cousin, since his father King Haakon and her mother Princess Ingeborg were siblings), fell in love and married, and their son Harald V is Norwegian king now. (Princess Märtha's picture is on your chart also, and one can understand that she married Crown Prince Olav, since Harald is given as his son as well, although Märtha and Olav's marriage does not seem to be mentioned in the video.) So a descendant of the Swedish royal house came on Norway's throne after all! Marianne Skånland (I have chosen not to change my nick MarNorMi, but I am not anonymous.)
King Haakon 7. of Norway did not inherit the Norwegian throne. He - born prince Carl of Denmark, was offered the Norwegian throne after the country broke out of the union with Sweden - accepted after a vote had been held, that the Norwegian people wanted him as king.
& b/c of the prevailing classist, paternalist inclinations regarding international diplomacy of the day (remember, this election happened b/f WWI), it was automatically assumed that the newly independent Norway would be a monarchy (in theory, to create blood ties between the 'representative' of its government & the other 'great powers'). Since Norway's own monarchy had been quietly swept under the rug after the dissolution of the Kalmar Union (well, technically Denmark entered a 'personal union' w/ Norway, but Christian of Oldenburg hardly had the best claim at the time; the House of Mecklenburg holds that dubious honor), 'royalty' had to be found elsewhere. I mean, it would normally be possible to 'promote from within' (like Gustav Eriksson of Sweden), but this was out-of-fashion in the early 20th C since it usually ignited civil conflict within the country. Since Denmark already had ties w/ Norway, & b/c the Glücksburg had some *distant* ties w/ the prior Oldenburgs, a junior Danish prince seemed like a good bet. Carl was married to Edward VII's daughter, which created automatic ties w/ the U.K. It certainly seems absolutely Byzantine now, considering any *new* independent nation would become a Republic (even former 'kingdoms' like, say, Scotland). Which, frankly, I prefer. If only b/c Haakon 'VII' was actually the eighth Norwegian king named Haakon. Norwegian kings didn't use numbers back in the 14th C, so the prior 'Haakons' had to be backdated w/ regnal numbers, w/ the odd one left out.
Prince Carl only accepted to become the King of Norway if a referendum among the Norwegian people showed them in favour of him becoming the king. During WWII when Norway was occupied by German forces, he refused to kowtow to the Nazis and Hitler. Upholding democracy and protecting the Norwegian constitution was foremost on his mind. He and his family were forced to flee Norway for the duration of the war. His daughter-in-law and her children fled to the US, he and his son, Crown Prince Olav went to the UK. His grandson, 87 year old King Harald is the current king of Norway. He will in due course be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Haakon who will probably become King Haakon the VIII. Norway and the other Scandinavian countries changed their laws from male primogeniture to absolute primogeniture, meaning that the first born child regardless of gender inherits the throne. Crown Prince Haakon’s first born is Princess Ingrid Alexandra. She will eventually become the first ruling Queen of Norway since Queen Margrethe the I in the 1350s to 1412 AD. Photos show her younger brother, Prince Sverre Magnus, as the spitting image of their grandfather King Olav.
The last two have ensured the Tudor bloodline survives, though not in name. Scandalous marriages too. They are proper Tudors Haha. Definitely very overlooked yet fascinating figures.
Wait I have more sorry but I’m obsessed with royalty can you do the children or siblings of empress sisi I’ve been reading about them and there pretty interesting
So... I had looked forward to this episode. I knew there was a Swedish princess here somewhere since I remember the Ruby Tiara went to Denmark with her... But wow! She really didn't seem like a nice person :( I guess I'll always have your Queen Kristina video!
There were actually two Swedish Princesses, but yes. The ruby tiara, now used by Crown Princess Mary, was brought to Denmark by Lovisa, because her mother believed "The Danish colors should go to Denmark". The second Swedish Princess, who was also descendant of Queen Victoria, was the current Queen of Denmark's mother, Ingrid. Her story is also fascinating and I hope Lindsay will cover it later on. The ruby tiara and accompanying jewels, has been passed down to the future Queens of Denmark, except Queen Margrethe. Queen Ingrid testamented it to her grandson, Crown Prince Frederik, and it was given to Crown Princess Mary, after having been out of the public eye for four years, a few days before their wedding.
Great video as always. My impression was that George I was a carpetbagger forced on Greece by Europe. I was pleasantly surprised to find out differently. If only his descendants had fought for Greece instead of running away in WWII they might still be on the throne (also contributing was his collaboration with the junta). And, in the tradition of cousins marrying cousins, Constantine married a Danish princess, Anne-Marie.
A couple of corrections: the grandson of George I - George II - stayed in Greece during the war. He left, along with the government, when Greece capitulated. The greatgrandson of George I - Constantine II - cannot be said to have collaborated with the Junta as he staged a counter-coup against them. The unpopularity of the throne in Greece stems from: Constantine I actively playing politics, during World War I and afterwards, George II's personality and Constantine II's interference in the political life of the nation in the mid-1960s.
Interesting..like I said, these are only impressions that I got growing up. I guess what I meant is that George II should have stayed in Greece during the entirety of WWII. The Danish king did and it boosted his popularity. The British royals also stayed in London during the Blitz (even though they secretly went to Windsor every night). The Greek royal family is Danish and Frederike was a Prussian-i think the Nazis would have gone easy on them. Talking to my relatives who lived through those times, it was not seen as a strategic retreat-they felt that the royal family saved their own skins and left everyone else to starve. Again, these are impressions that I gathered growing up.
maam lindsay, hope you can also share story about the powerful mistresses of the kings of france like madame pompadour, madame du barry, madame de montespan, madame maigntenon and madame diane de poitress..
The connection to the Danish royal famliy is, that Ingeborg, who was a daughter of Frederik 8th and a sister of both Christian 10th of Denmark and Håkon 7th of Norway, and was married to Carl, a younger brother of Gustav 5th of Swdeden, had a daugther Astrid, who was married to Leopold 3rd of Belgium and was mother of both king Baudoin and king Albert 2nd as well as Josephine-Charlotte, who was married to Luxembourgian grand duke Jean.
Another ambitious project Lindsay, doing the grandkids next! Kudos! Does anyone else think George I looks like Peyton Manning in some of his younger photos, or is it just me?
Håkon VII didn’t inherited the norwegian throne. It was held two referendum’s in Norway to establish kingdom and to elect Prince Carl as king (Håkon VII).
George I of Greece: the King who discovered his status on the newspaper around his sandwich! Best history I've heard in a long time 😂
Moreover it was a sardine sandwich and the newspaper was generously coated with the oil of the sardines. So imagine finding out that you were elected king from a greasy newspaper
Anita Bhattacharya *Greecey* 😂😂😂 (I am half Greek)
See, this will never happen again if newspapers are replaced online news!! Keep buying and reading newspapers!
Imagine you were just about to have lunch but became king instead.
ace lopez That would probably be the best day of my life!
Imagine sitting down to lunch with a good newspaper in hand, and then randomly finding out you became a king.
Well hopefully the current White House asshole will find out the same way eating a sardine sandwich and choking on it like he’s forced America for the last four years to gag.
@@johnpickford4222 Trump's policies are great. Biden has none. Trump is a jerk, Biden is nice but has senility. Trump is the only answer. Like you said, he will choke on the election sandwich, but get the Heimlich and reelected. We have to have the jerk to make the hard decisions, versus the nice guy who is too brain dead to make any.
That's exactly what I thought! 😂😁
Yeah😳
I really feel bad for Olga. She was only 15 when she was taken away to a strange country while she was not ready. And only a year later she baecame a mother. Must have been hard on her. But I guess that happend a lot to girls in that area.
Ikr look at henry VII's mother Margaret Beaufort.. She became pregnant at 13 I think
Csobán Gál yep and her pregnancy with Henry VII messed her body so much that she never had another child again
Missbluebell what a gorgeous name you have!
Marriages at the time were usually arranged by the parents. Very rarely did the person involved get to choose for himself or herself.
@@andrewhaywood3853 thanks. It is actually my dogs name 😊
Honestly the Danish royal house seems much more admirable than the English Victorians we seem to be obsessed over!
IKR!! Also, the parents were very cool and loving, unlike Ice Queen Victoria who almost-hated her children
@@notheretoargue2885 it wasn't almost, she straight up hated her children.
They were Germans
We were fine with the British Royal Family till Markle Sparkle joined.
Ughhhh
Maybe Netflix could popularize the House of Glucksburg like they do the House of Windsor. The old ATV series, Edward the King, did a nice job highlighting Alexandra. Does Denmark have a BBC that could produce and popularize some of theses stories? They're actually even more interesting than the Windsors.
King George I of Greece's story is very impressive. Found himself becoming king of the foreign land while opening his sandwich for lunch! And, he was even determined to be Greek than the Greeks themselves. That's dedication right there.
Plus, the story of the sailor prince of Denmark (Valdermar) and his tattooed wife is hilariously and lovingly adorable. They're definitely made for one another. No wonder some of his descendants really pick up his true love & passion of sea and sailing.
He’s also, surprisingly, the only monarch of Greece to have died a violent death
Nice!❤
Valdemar and Marie are such a great couple, for gods sake she had a tatto for him in the 1800s! Sad she die so young.
He declined to be a king only coz he Didn't want to upset his brother? Such a true royalty.. He sounds like a fairytale prince
@@Maya-iz9fx And he didn't want to give up being a sailor prince. He was happy with his life. He had status, a job he enjoyed, money, and freedom.
I feel like we need a video on Marie of Orleans. You can't just drop that she's a talented artist, rode a bull over a horse, and got tattooed. Lol. She sounds wild and I like it.
Neeeeeed this!!
Same plus had a morphine addiction like seriously this girl was the it girl and also had a happy royal marriage which is a breath of fresh air
Yup, she's a wild woman!!
Agreed!
Valdemar sounds like a really cool dude with his inked wife.
He is. As a young boy, he bears resemblance to today's prince fredrik.
Marie seems like a really cool chick with her valdimar husband...
I said the same thing! And his wife was awesome too
Fascinating, Lindsay, as always! I'm officially a super fan of Valdemort (the youngest prince - I'm sure I misspelled his name)
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I wanted this so much. I was so confused when drawing the relationships between the royal families of Europe. Ends up king Christian ix and queen victoria are the father in law and grandma of Europe.
I feel like they should call him grandpa pf Europe instead 😂😂😂
i love that Greece just went " we want a new monarch. We'll take that one." *Points at the teenager up north*
Something about the picture of Alexandra, Dagmar, and Olga dressed alike and standing together just made me smile. It’s so easy to think of people who lived so long ago (and in much higher status) as just stiff, regal, and lifeless. But then they’ll do something like wearing polka dot dresses with their sister in law or posing for a picture with their little child on their back!
Thank you, Lindsay, for bringing life back into these figures!
To some extent it was a technology problem old time cameras needed more exposure time to create the foto, this meant people had to stand still for longer time to make a good picture. That is why people often look so dour on old fotographies.
@@erikrungemadsen2081 I think everyone here knows this
I know it’s quite common for notes to be left in lunches, but “Congratulations! You’re the King of Greece!” might top them all.
Wonder if he had any idea one of his descendants would go on to be the longest serving British consort in history also. The Danish royal family has a truly fascinating story, a relatively small kingdom that ended up with TREMENDOUS power and influence.
As a member of the danish jewish community, I ask:
Can you make a video on the danish royal familys involvement in the rescue of danish jewry in 1943 and it's role in the resistance?
Yes, that would be very interesting!
last time i was this early, Victoria still was the queen
Last time I was this early Ealanor of Acquitaine was being covered.
I’m just going to write down a bunch of suggest, if you use one or more of them thank you
1.margaret Beaufort
The mother of Henry vii a strong figure in the war of the roses
2. The rank of Jhansi
The queen who fought against the British
3. Mary queen of scots
Elizabeth the firsts rival
4. Elizabeth I
Gloriana
5. Elizabeth of York
The white rose with the red
The Rani of Jhansi, not Rank
I'm gonna add a king to the list since I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to cover:
Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulus and the man who dared to fight against western influences in South Africa
Always thought that Margaret Beaufort was probably the one who had the princes in the tower killed...it cleared the way for Henry and allowed him to marry Elizabeth of York with her legitimacy restored without threat of the male Yorks.
Hotchpotch OUR STYLE whoops thanks for the correction
Ginger Kid that makes sense cause Richard already made the princes illegitimate so why did he have to kill them, Margaret Beaufort is a much more believable and likely candidate in the murder of the princes , does that mean that the tudors slandered Richard and accused him of the murder??
Poor Olga she wasn’t ready to be queen and shouldn’t have been forced too
She actually proved pretty capable, and twice acted as a regent in later life.
Oh wow, 2 videos this week!!!!!!!
You've really outdone yourself.
What a treat:)
Christian IX of Denmark's descendants are so fascinating.
Thank you!
Girl you're spoiling us now I love when you upload 💕💕
It's kinda cool that the only one of them not to become a king, seemed to have the most adventurous life.
Nikolaj That's how it usually goes. The king has all the pressures and responsibilities, and most of the time it shortens the guy's life. The heir has to watch his step and "the spare" can be wild.
@@653j521 He can *spare* the time. ;)
I'll see myself out.
A lot of the "spare" princes became military commanders from what I've read. Sometimes however, things could get unusual and complicated because the "spare" could suddenly become king for a while if his brother had no children. A very famous example is Wilhelm I of Prussia, since his brother Frederick William IV got the throne as first-born, Wilhelm was free for a while to focus on his military career in the army and became a general (he even saved his brother from a radical uprising in 1848). However, Frederick William and his wife weren't able to have children despite trying (it's unclear why), so plans were set for Wilhelm to reign for at least a few years (he was about 64 years old when he took the throne), the joke was on them though, he lived 27 more years and died at the age of 90. In addition to being Germany's first Emperor, Wilhelm was famously one of the last monarchs to ever personally command a battle, when at 68 he oversaw the Prussian army at Koniggratz against Austria. A truly astonishing story.
@@thunderbird1921 It is
Half the people mentioned in this video are related to the queen of England and her husband/cousin
David Corruthers Just to point out there is no Queen of England and hasn’t been one crowned since Queen Anne. You mean the Queen of the UK or British Queen.
@@001islandprincess While you are right, I think people refer to "The Queen of England"
European royalty. Not much of a surprise. 😅
that is the point of the piece
Half? More like 90%...
Valdemar and Marie just seem so chill to hang out with
Could you do something about asia i would love it to happen cause im from the phillipines
She has
Me too! I would love to see more non-European royalty
That would be awesome!
I am also from the Philippines and yes it will be a good thing to feature asian history
This is one of the few royal family's that actually seems like a real family. So down to earth and just regular. I love it.
Well, that's b/c Christian IX was the 'protocol prince'; he was heir designate of Denmark, chosen pretty much out of the blue from minor German nobility of his time.
The reason was quite simple; the crown could only pass by semi-Salic law among the descendants of Frederick III (that is, all male-line descendants b/f any female-line descendants). Frederick VI died w/out sons (but he had 2 daughters), so the crown passed to his half-'cousin' Christian VIII. Christian VIII had only 1 son, the future Frederick VII, who had been married to Frederick VI's younger daughter, but had no children.
The heir presumptive was Frederick VII's uncle, Ferdinand, who married Frederick VI's eldest daughter, but they too had no children. After Ferdinand there were no other male-line heirs of Frederick III, only female ones.
The senior ones would be the descendants of Augusta, sister of Frederick VI, who had married into the House of Augustenborg (the senior cadet branch of the Oldenburg dynasty). But the Augustenborgs were German by bearing, & Augusta wasn't even the daughter of Christian VII anyway (her real father was Johann Friedrich Struensee), so her line was an easy pass.
The person most closely related to Frederick VII & Ferdinand was Charlotte, princess of Hesse-Kassel (sister of Christian VIII & Ferdinand). Her son was Frederick William, landgrave of Hesse, who was probably the strongest candidate by law at the time, being of Danish upbringing.
However, the end of the male-line of Frederick III didn't just have consequences for Denmark; the twin duchies of Schleswig & Holstein (held in personal union w/ Denmark) would have a new duke as well. The duchies were heritable by the male-line of Helvig of Holstein (mother of Christian I), so the next line over was the Duke of Augustenborg. This meant that Denmark would loose the duchies if they choose any of Charlotte's descendants.
To avoid this, a 'compromise' candidate was considered; Christian of Glücksburg was the 3rd son of a minor German duke, descended in the male line from an even more junior branch of the Oldenburgs than the Augustenborgs were. Unlike the Duke of Augustenborg, however, Christian was raised Danish; he had been Frederick VI's nephew by-marriage, & so found royal favour that way.
More importantly, he was married to Charlotte's younger daughter, Louise of Hesse-Kassel. This meant their children (Christian's heirs) were male-line Oldenburgs (eligible to inherit the duchies, but not 1st-in-line) & close relatives of Frederick VII (& thus suitable for the Danish throne), & of Danish extradition.
Renunciations were procured from Charlotte, her son, her elder daughter, & the Duke of Augustenborg, all in favour of Christian of Glücksburg inheriting the Danish throne & the duchies after the death of his wife's cousin, Frederick VII. Even so, he & his family lived a quiet life, since they weren't actually welcome at the Danish court (they had no respect for Frederick VII's morganatic wife).
It was ultimately for nothing; Denmark lost the duchies after two wars with Germany that they lost *badly.*
Furthermore, Charlotte & her siblings weren't even blood-related to the Oldenburg dynasty! Christian VIII, Ferdinand, & Charlotte were all 'officially' fathered by Hereditary Prince Frederick, half-brother of Christian VII. But Frederick resembles his 'children' not at all; court rumor (supported by King Frederick VI himself) held Friedrich Wilhelm von Blücher to be the real father of the children; he was having an affair w/ Frederick's wife, & the children all had *his* look, not Frederick's.
So the reason they don't act like royalty is b/c, well, they aren't 'real' royalty; they weren't 1st in line or even biologically related to the prior dynasty by any real degree. They were chosen out of misplaced nationalism (that held only a Danish speaker could hold the Danish throne, even tho. all the kings prior to Christian VIII spoke German as their 1st language), & a futile desire to hold onto German duchies they lost anyway.
That's monarchism for ya!
Last time I was this early, George was still a Danish Minor Royal
But George wasn’t prince yet when he became king
@@briannalyon1653 Thanks for tellin'! I changed it to make more sense!
As a Dane I'm very pleased with this series. Thank you :)
Kirstine Otte - Hilsner til Danmark 🇩🇰 fra Graekenland! 🇬🇷
Actually the Greeks with a referandom chose Prince Alfred to be the King. But the Great Powers didn't want the UK to have more influence on Greece and Queen Victoria wanted Alfred to became the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Greeks knew that with a British King they would have the backing of the World's largest empire against the Ottomans.
Christian IX: I have so many descendants
Genghis Khan: that's cute
Your history lessons are great. I love all the little fascinating personal tidbits that made your videos a notch above other biographers. Thank you, Lindsay for my smiles...
I truly love all of your content.
So much information about both the politics and the actual people behind them. Thanks for your hard work!
You missed the part where Fredrick constantly cheated on Louisa. She was hated by the entirety of Danish Royal family because she wasn't someone who would just stand being treated like trash. But she was loved by the public. Though she was strict, she loved her children
Please do a vid about the Egyptian Royal family?
Yes, I'd love to see that as well.
Me too!
Queen Nazli deserves a movie. And the same goes the life of the royals in exile. I think the Christian branch of the family is in California. However I don't know anything about the Russian Orlov descendants whereabouts.
george i’s story is so interesting! i never knew how much the brothers did since i mainly paid attention to the sisters lmao
I think it's pretty interesting that the oldest 2 sons both died at right about the same age (67 and 68), each had 8 children and both died while taking their evening stroll (even with George I with being murdered during it). Even the daughters had close similarities of life (i.e. ages, 6 kids). I wonder if Valdemar would have shared the same circumstances had he chosen to be king; he likely outlived them because he didn't.
Lindsay: Posts two videos in one week
me: *Happy history nerd noises!*
Olga under the stairs playing whit a doll is so tender and lovely!!!
So now I know the source of the name " Valdemar".I think I would have liked him,and his wife.Such a shame,to lose her so young.30 years is a long time to be a widower.I feel for Olga,too.Far too young to be married.
Valdemar 1st "the Great", king of Denmark 1157-1182, Valdemar 2nd "the Victorious", king of Denmark 1202-1241, Valdemar 3rd (an infant puppet king) king of Denmark 1326-1329, Valdemar 4th "A new day" or "Another day", king of Denmark 1340-1375.... So "source" is not quite correct. By the way, Valdemar 1st was great-grandson of Vladimir Monomach of Kiev and was named after him, so Valdemar is the Danish version of the Russian name Vladimir.
I immediately thought of Voldemort
The Sons of King Christian IX in a nutshell
*King Frederick:*
Frederick: I'm waiting
Some years later
Frederick: Still waiting
More years later
Frederick: I'M STILL WAITING, GODDAMIT
Another year later
Frederick: FINALLY I'M KING
Barely a few years later
Frederick: Dammit
*Vilhelm, King George:*
George:*reading the newspaper* OMG I'M KING OF GREECE
Arriving at Greece
George: My people love me now, my name is George
Years later in, the afterlife
George: What have I done to them.
*Prince Valdemar*
Valdemar: I want to be a sailor and have a chaotic family
Marie: Yes, we will do honey
Someone from Norway: Do you want to be king of Norway
Valdemar: No but, my nephew will be good for this position
Someone from Finland: Do you want to be king of Finland
Valdemar: no, thank you
King Alexander: Brother-in-law do you want to be the ruler of Bulgaria?
Valdemar: No, as I said, I want to be a sailor
Thanks for the double dose this wk Lindsey!! Très cool👍🏽
It's so nice to hear the bigger history of Dennark 🥰 and that I still remember most of it is fantastic 🥰 love the way you say our names and the way you teach about a history from another land, thank you 🧡
Omg my queen Lindsay you are feeding us this week
Thank you for two videos this week Lindsay!
Hi, I have been watching your videos for some time and I am very thankful for your way of doing them. The way of intruducing children of monarchs or royals with a lot or most relatives in different countries is just awsome, because seeing how everyone is somehow connected is better then familytree. Thank you.
Whoa! Once I watched your channel about Queen Victoria’s kids and grandchildren. I do wondering about father in law of Europe as well. Thanks Lindsay!
Two 15 min+ videos in one week?! You're spoiling us, Lindsay!
2 Lindsay Holiday Videos in the same week!! I’m spoiled!!!
I was kind of vibing with George and then Lindsay was like "he married a fifteen year old" and I had to pause to sigh 🤦♀️
She was past her sixteenth birthday when they actually got married. The engagement happened when Olga was fifteen.
5:53 the picture of "Constantine I" is wrong.
This is, again, George I, Constantine's father.
6:04 This picture is not from Otto's deposition (1862), but from the September 3rd (1843) revolution, when greek people demanded constitution by Otto (and got it).
6:55 The Ionian (major) islands are seven. The map doesn't even depict Corfu which is the largest!
thank you for making such entertaining and informative videos!! i’ve watched all of them!!
I’d also like to offer a suggestion: the royal family of Japan.
If only I live in this "modest" Yellow palace in Coppenhagen.
Awesome storytelling! Thank you and I cannot wait for more!
I think you should do a video on Mary the first of Denmark, she was a commoner from a small island of the coast of Australia, and by a chance meeting is now the future Queen
Ah, no. Wait until she becomes Queen and throws a shrimp on the barbe(cue).
She wouldn't be Mary 1st, we had a queen Marie which is the Danish version of Mary back in 1808 (-1839) who was also queen of Norway from 1808-1814. This one was married to Frederik 6th. Mary is married to Frederik who will be nr 10 in the rows of Frederiks when he is crowned. Our queen Margrethe is still alive.
Queens consort do not have numbers
A chance meeting? Not she manipulated it
Wow your vidos are amzing and quick. I just came out of my grandmothers funeral so yet again thank you 🙂
I'm sorry for your loss. Hope you'll take your time to grief and feel better when you can :)
@@DutchSimmer1 thank you ❤❤❤
I'm sorry for your loss 💕
@@melmel4712 thank you. Your profile gives me a smile
You should do cleopatra and her ancestors
Fascinating, as always, Lindsay!
I love your videos! I think you do such an excellent job explaining history that doesn’t make it boring. Could you do a video on Anastasia and her siblings?!
Check out the the many, many TH-cam videos.
I would love that!
I love your videos, Ms. Holiday! But would you do more videos on eastern monarchies and royals, keep up the good work!
They are by far the most likable royal family, did not expect that 🤓
Just perfect, as usual. Thank you for these very interesting videos
I have been waiting for this
i really just love your picks for profiles lindsay, so good!
The first time where I heard a queen stricter with her children than a king ( Louise of Sweden, wife of Frederick VIII )
she looked crazy
Your videos never disappoint. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Lindsay. I thoroughly
enjoyed this video. Well presentation
Nice great to see the son's family history
such a pleasure...history with photos and names....a great way to relive it-a wilhelm, an olga, so great, it makes sense
They all had to walk the 10 miles, but the only one who ate Veal cutlets and spinach for every meal was just Ingeborg. Just sayin.
And when she married and went to Sweden, she said she wasn't going to go for long walks ever again. She also was probably tired of veal cutlets and spinach.
@@annbsirius1703 yeah, I would be too. Ingeborg does have a very interesting story though. I hope there might be a video on her because she's a really fascinating royal
Prince Carl, who took the name of Haakon VII, did NOT inherit the Norwegian crown from his maternal (Swedish) uncle, Oscar II.
Cf what Estrid Melissa as well as Chris Carson said in their comments a year ago.
Norway declared independence from Sweden, there was some 'rumbling' but Sweden accepted it, largely because of the influence of the Swedish king, who was negative to secession but did not want to go to war against the Norwegians, whom he after all considered 'his own people', and also because the Swedish social-democrats saw it as a question of 'justice for the Norwegians'. The Norwegian crown, as a kind of peace-offering, was first of all actually offered to a younger son of the Swedish king, prince Carl, duke of Västergötland, who absolutely wanted to accept (ironically enough he had been more in favour of war to discipline Norway). He and his Danish wife, princess Ingeborg (daughter of Frederick VIII), knelt before king Oscar and asked to be allowed to say yes. But king Oscar was very hurt and said no. Norway then asked Swedish prince Carl's Danish brother-in-law, princess Ingeborg's brother, (also Carl by name,). He said yes, but only on the condition that the Norwegian people wanted him, by plebiscite. That was very successful, and he took the name Haakon, which was a well-known royal name from the Middle Ages. - There were of course some republicans in Norway at the time, but it was doubtful whether the European powers would have accepted a republican Norway easily, and prince Carl's English wife princess Maud's connections (she was a daughter of king Edward VII) strengthened their position. Her mother, Queen Alexandra, was Danish, a sister of King Frederick VIII, so Maud and Carl (--> Haakon) were first cousins.
This is the way I know the story, anyway - I am not a historian.
But King Haakon and Queen Maud's son, prince Olav, and one of the Duke and Duchess of Västergötland's daughters, princess Märtha (who was of course his first cousin, since his father King Haakon and her mother Princess Ingeborg were siblings), fell in love and married, and their son Harald V is Norwegian king now. (Princess Märtha's picture is on your chart also, and one can understand that she married Crown Prince Olav, since Harald is given as his son as well, although Märtha and Olav's marriage does not seem to be mentioned in the video.) So a descendant of the Swedish royal house came on Norway's throne after all!
Marianne Skånland (I have chosen not to change my nick MarNorMi, but I am not anonymous.)
Damn.
“Oh look, I’m a newborn with a 38 year old older sister.”🤧
Wonderful video as always! Thankyou for the education your teaching. I had never heard of him. Love learning new things!
I'm going to visit Denmark soon and it was only fitting to learn of their history. Great video
I love your videos Lindsay! Thank-you for making and sharing! 😊❤️🇱🇹🇺🇲
The family gatherings in the summers must have been epic (and quite a handful)...
King Haakon 7. of Norway did not inherit the Norwegian throne.
He - born prince Carl of Denmark, was offered the Norwegian throne after the country broke out of the union with Sweden - accepted after a vote had been held, that the Norwegian people wanted him as king.
& b/c of the prevailing classist, paternalist inclinations regarding international diplomacy of the day (remember, this election happened b/f WWI), it was automatically assumed that the newly independent Norway would be a monarchy (in theory, to create blood ties between the 'representative' of its government & the other 'great powers').
Since Norway's own monarchy had been quietly swept under the rug after the dissolution of the Kalmar Union (well, technically Denmark entered a 'personal union' w/ Norway, but Christian of Oldenburg hardly had the best claim at the time; the House of Mecklenburg holds that dubious honor), 'royalty' had to be found elsewhere.
I mean, it would normally be possible to 'promote from within' (like Gustav Eriksson of Sweden), but this was out-of-fashion in the early 20th C since it usually ignited civil conflict within the country.
Since Denmark already had ties w/ Norway, & b/c the Glücksburg had some *distant* ties w/ the prior Oldenburgs, a junior Danish prince seemed like a good bet. Carl was married to Edward VII's daughter, which created automatic ties w/ the U.K.
It certainly seems absolutely Byzantine now, considering any *new* independent nation would become a Republic (even former 'kingdoms' like, say, Scotland). Which, frankly, I prefer. If only b/c Haakon 'VII' was actually the eighth Norwegian king named Haakon. Norwegian kings didn't use numbers back in the 14th C, so the prior 'Haakons' had to be backdated w/ regnal numbers, w/ the odd one left out.
Prince Carl only accepted to become the King of Norway if a referendum among the Norwegian people showed them in favour of him becoming the king.
During WWII when Norway was occupied by German forces, he refused to kowtow to the Nazis and Hitler. Upholding democracy and protecting the Norwegian constitution was foremost on his mind. He and his family were forced to flee Norway for the duration of the war. His daughter-in-law and her children fled to the US, he and his son, Crown Prince Olav went to the UK.
His grandson, 87 year old King Harald is the current king of Norway. He will in due course be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Haakon who will probably become King Haakon the VIII.
Norway and the other Scandinavian countries changed their laws from male primogeniture to absolute primogeniture, meaning that the first born child regardless of gender inherits the throne.
Crown Prince Haakon’s first born is Princess Ingrid Alexandra. She will eventually become the first ruling Queen of Norway since Queen Margrethe the I in the 1350s to 1412 AD. Photos show her younger brother, Prince Sverre Magnus, as the spitting image of their grandfather King Olav.
Please do a video on the children of king Christian of Denmark's three sons
Can you do one on Mary queen of scots or Margaret Tudor or Mary Tudor the last two often get overlooked but are very interesting
I feel like she has... I’ll check
The last two have ensured the Tudor bloodline survives, though not in name. Scandalous marriages too. They are proper Tudors Haha. Definitely very overlooked yet fascinating figures.
Wait I have more sorry but I’m obsessed with royalty can you do the children or siblings of empress sisi I’ve been reading about them and there pretty interesting
Or maybe the wives of Napoleon
@@sananoor6616 i would love to know more about the French monarchies, its all a bit confusing
So... I had looked forward to this episode. I knew there was a Swedish princess here somewhere since I remember the Ruby Tiara went to Denmark with her... But wow! She really didn't seem like a nice person :( I guess I'll always have your Queen Kristina video!
There were actually two Swedish Princesses, but yes. The ruby tiara, now used by Crown Princess Mary, was brought to Denmark by Lovisa, because her mother believed "The Danish colors should go to Denmark". The second Swedish Princess, who was also descendant of Queen Victoria, was the current Queen of Denmark's mother, Ingrid. Her story is also fascinating and I hope Lindsay will cover it later on. The ruby tiara and accompanying jewels, has been passed down to the future Queens of Denmark, except Queen Margrethe. Queen Ingrid testamented it to her grandson, Crown Prince Frederik, and it was given to Crown Princess Mary, after having been out of the public eye for four years, a few days before their wedding.
Great video as always. My impression was that George I was a carpetbagger forced on Greece by Europe. I was pleasantly surprised to find out differently. If only his descendants had fought for Greece instead of running away in WWII they might still be on the throne (also contributing was his collaboration with the junta). And, in the tradition of cousins marrying cousins, Constantine married a Danish princess, Anne-Marie.
A couple of corrections: the grandson of George I - George II - stayed in Greece during the war. He left, along with the government, when Greece capitulated.
The greatgrandson of George I - Constantine II - cannot be said to have collaborated with the Junta as he staged a counter-coup against them.
The unpopularity of the throne in Greece stems from: Constantine I actively playing politics, during World War I and afterwards, George II's personality and Constantine II's interference in the political life of the nation in the mid-1960s.
Interesting..like I said, these are only impressions that I got growing up. I guess what I meant is that George II should have stayed in Greece during the entirety of WWII. The Danish king did and it boosted his popularity. The British royals also stayed in London during the Blitz (even though they secretly went to Windsor every night). The Greek royal family is Danish and Frederike was a Prussian-i think the Nazis would have gone easy on them. Talking to my relatives who lived through those times, it was not seen as a strategic retreat-they felt that the royal family saved their own skins and left everyone else to starve. Again, these are impressions that I gathered growing up.
This family is absolutely adorable like the whole one!
Wow, Marie and Valdemar seem really cool, I'm glad they were happy together, seems kinda rare for royals
Thank you Lindsay. Well done
Greetings from USA🇺🇸
maam lindsay, hope you can also share story about the powerful mistresses of the kings of france like madame pompadour, madame du barry, madame de montespan, madame maigntenon and madame diane de poitress..
Another excellent video! Well done indeed!
What a Surprise!! 👍👍😁
Louise was so ABUSIVE toward her children! How very sad. No wonder Frederick left her.
"Wanna be King of Bulgaria?" "Nah, I'm good."
So basically, all European royalty is descended from Victoria or Christian IX. Or from both. Or both several times.
Hi Lindsay
Please do a Dutch (the Netherlands) history please
The family move to the yellow palace when he became crown prince. (credentials, Danish and history nerd)
Please to a video on the belgian royal family 🇧🇪
The connection to the Danish royal famliy is, that Ingeborg, who was a daughter of Frederik 8th and a sister of both Christian 10th of Denmark and Håkon 7th of Norway, and was married to Carl, a younger brother of Gustav 5th of Swdeden, had a daugther Astrid, who was married to Leopold 3rd of Belgium and was mother of both king Baudoin and king Albert 2nd as well as Josephine-Charlotte, who was married to Luxembourgian grand duke Jean.
8:00 God damn this guy was a really good King 👑
Please do a video about Sophia of Hanover, the mother of King George I
Another ambitious project Lindsay, doing the grandkids next! Kudos! Does anyone else think George I looks like Peyton Manning in some of his younger photos, or is it just me?
At 5:51, that's not a picture of Constantine I, but a painting of his father, George I.
What about doing Hawaiian Royalty?
A video on the five children of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra!
Awww. Poor Olga. Someone give that girl a hug. Poor baby. Too young to be so far away from home.
last time I felt happy was when I watched this video
Last time I was this early Schleswig-Holstein was still part of Denmark 🇩🇰
Håkon VII didn’t inherited the norwegian throne. It was held two referendum’s in Norway to establish kingdom and to elect Prince Carl as king (Håkon VII).