Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
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H.M.
Frederik VIII
King of Denmark

1843-1912

    
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

    Links
 
  Vita Index of Royal Colonels
Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Christian Frederik Wilhelm Carl Glücksburg
birth: 1843.06.03 at Kobenhavn
father:   Christian IX Glücksburg (King of Denmark)
mother:   Luise Wilhelmine of Hessen-Kassel
marriage: 1869.07.28 Louise Josephine Eugénie of Sweden
at Stockholm
children: 1870 Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Wilhelm (King of Denmark)
  1872 Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel (King of Norway)
  1875 Louise Caroline Josephine of Denmark
  1876 Harald Christian Frederik of Denmark
  1878 Ingeborg Charlotta Carolina of Denmark
  1880 Thyra Louise Caroline Amalie of Denmark
  1887 Gustav of Denmark
  1890 Dagmar Louise Elisabeth of Denmark
accession: 1906.01.29  
coronation:
death: 1912.05.14 at Hamburg
  Titles, Orders and Awards
Titles:
1906.01.29 King of Denmark
 
British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
 
 
 
   Honorary Military Appointments
1906.11.09 Colonel-in-Chief, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
   Military Service
British:  
   
Danish: [beyond the scope of this site]
 
   Other Military Connections
   
 
   Links