Princess Dagmar of Denmark

Infobox Danish Royalty|highness
name = Princess Dagmar
full name = Dagmar Louise Elisabeth


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title = Princess Dagmar of Denmark
styles = "HRH" Princess Dagmar, Mrs. Jørgen Castenskiold
"HRH" Princess Dagmar of Denmark
royal house = House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
spouse = Jørgen Castenskiold
issue = Carl Castenskiold
Christian Castenskiold
Jørgen Castenskiold
Dagmar Castenskiold
date of birth = birth date|1890|5|23|df=y
place of birth = Charlottenlund Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
date of death = death date and age|1961|10|11|1890|5|23|df=y
place of death = Kongstedlund, Denmark
father = Frederick VIII of Denmark
mother = Lovisa of Sweden

Princess Dagmar of Denmark ("Dagmar Louise Elisabeth") 23 May, 1890 - 11 October, 1961) was the youngest child and fourth daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway. She was named for her aunt, the Empress Maria Fydorovna, who was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark

She married Jørgen Castenskiold on November 23, 1922. They had four children:
* "Carl" Frederik Anton Jørgen Castenskiold (13 November, 1923-14 April, 2006) He married three times. His first marriage, to Bente Grevenkop, produced three children. They divorced in 1963. He later married Else Albrechtsen (in 1961, divorced 1969), and Maja Fabricius (in 1971).
* "Christian" Ludwig Gustav Fritz Castenskiold (b. 10 July, 1926) He married Cecily Abbots, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandra (b. 1965).
* "Jørgen" Frederik Aage Erik Helge Castenskiold (16 March, 1928-4 May, 1964) He married first to Kirsten Schlichtkrull, with whom he had a daughter, Susanne. They divorced in 1958, and he married Birgit Tingstedt, with whom he had another daughter, Marie-Louise.
* Dagmar Castenskiold (b. 11 September, 1930) She married first, in 1950, to Poul Bitsch with whom she had three children, and remarried upon his death to Ole Friis Larsen in 1972.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Dagmar of Denmark
2= 2. Frederick VIII of Denmark
3= 3. Lovisa of Sweden
4= 4. Christian IX of Denmark
5= 5. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
6= 6. Charles XV of Sweden
7= 7. Louise of the Netherlands
8= 8. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
9= 9. Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
10= 10. Prince William of Hesse
11= 11. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark
12= 12. Oscar I of Sweden
13= 13. Josephine of Leuchtenberg
14= 14. Prince Frederik of the Netherlands
15= 15. Princess Luise of Prussia
16= 16. Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
17= 17. Countess Friederike of Schlieben
18= 18. Charles of Hesse
19= 19. Princess Louise of Denmark and Norway
20= 20. Prince Frederick of Hesse
21= 21. Caroline of Nassau-Usingen
22= 22. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway
23= 23. Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
24= 24. Charles XIV John of Sweden
25= 25. Désirée Clary
26= 26. Eugène de Beauharnais
27= 27. Princess Augusta of Bavaria
28= 28. William I of the Netherlands
29= 29. Wilhelmine of Prussia
30= 30. Frederick William III of Prussia
31= 31. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz