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Denmark On This Day

Posted by Karen on April 16, 2025, 1:08 pm

1940 - Princess Margrethe of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, was born at Amalienborg in Copenhagen as the first child of the then Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark, King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. Her birth took place just one week after Nazi Germany's invasion of Denmark. She was baptized in May 1940 in the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen. Her godparents were: King Christian X of Denmark, Hereditary Prince Knud of Denmark, Prince Axel of Denmark, King Gustaf V of Sweden (her maternal great grandfather), Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (her maternal grandfather), Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten (her maternal uncle) and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (her maternal great grandfather).