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 Ingolf and his wife Sussie in 2005 | |||||
| Born | Prince Ingolf of Denmark (1940-02-17)17 February 1940 (age 85) Sorgenfri Palace,Lyngby-Taarbæk,Denmark | ||||
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| House | Glücksburg | ||||
| Father | Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark | ||||
| Mother | Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark | ||||
Count Ingolf of RosenborgRE (born 17 February 1940) is a Danish count andformer prince.
BornPrince Ingolf of Denmark (Danish:Prins Ingolf Christian Frederik Knud Harald Gorm Gustav Viggo Valdemar Aage til Danmark), he appeared likely to some day become king until the constitution was changed in 1953 to allow females to inherit the crown, placing his branch of the dynasty behind that of his first cousinPrincess Margrethe and her two younger sisters. He later gave up his princely rank and his rights to the throne in order to marry a commoner.
He is alandlord inEgeland Gods,Øster Starup Kolding.[1]
Ingolf was born atSorgenfri Palace,Sorgenfri, as His Highness Prince Ingolf of Denmark. He was the elder son ofHereditary Prince Knud, by his wife and first cousin,Hereditary Princess Caroline-Mathilde.
From the 1947 death of his grandfather,Christian X of Denmark, Ingolf stood only behind his father in theorder of hereditary succession to the throne and was expected to become king in his turn. His father, Prince Knud, was then theheir presumptive, due to succeed Ingolf's uncleKing Frederik IX, who had three daughters but no sons.
In 1953, theConstitution of Denmark was amended to allowcognatic primogeniture. The new law made thirteen-year-oldPrincess Margrethe the newheir presumptive, placing her and her two sisters before Prince Knud and his family in the succession. Ingolf was thus relegated to fifth in the line ofsuccession to the Danish throne, but more importantly, he now ranked behind Margrethe and others who were likely to havedynastic children of their own (as has, in fact, happened). The princess becameQueen Margrethe II in 1972 and reigned until 2024. Ingolf's place in the line of succession, were he still eligible, would be no higher than twelfth today.
In 1968, now with little hope of ascending the throne, Ingolf chose toforfeit his right of succession to the throne by marrying without having received theroyal assent of the monarch in theCouncil of State. The king's permission to marry was not sought because it was expected to be denied, since Ingolf's fiancée was anuntitled commoner.[2] Though Frederik IX had liberalized traditional practice by allowing royal spouses who were not themselves royal, but who claimed noble blood and were known bycourtesy titles (Anne Bowes-Lyon was the granddaughter of an earl and through her first marriage to the son of an earl bore the title of viscountess;Henri de Laborde de Monpezat used the title of count, though his family's claim to nobility was later acknowledged to be flawed), it would not be until 1995 that Margrethe II would allow her children to marry commoners with neither title nor claim to noble blood. Ingolf was given the titlecount of Rosenborg and thestyle ofExcellency, as was customary in the 20th century for Danish princes who forfeited their dynastic rights.
Prior to his son's wedding, Prince Knud sought to convince his brother that Ingolf should be allowed to retain his royal title after marriage.[3] But the king refused, on the grounds that other males of the dynasty who had been demoted to counts of Rosenborg upon marriage might try to reclaim their royalrank if Ingolf were allowed to do so, despite marrying a commoner as they had done.[3] So, in 1968, Ingolf forfeited his rights to the throne and took the title count of Rosenborg. His younger brotherChristian did the same three years later.
Ingolf married firstly Inge Terney (21 January 1938 inCopenhagen – 21 July 1996 in Velje),[4] daughter of Georg Terney (1906–1977), hardware storer, and wife Jenny Kamilla Hansen (1908–1990), on 13 January 1968, at Kongens Lyngby Kirke, KongensLyngby, Denmark.[5] After being widowed, he married secondly Sussie Hjorhøy-Pedersen (born 20 February 1950 inCopenhagen),[6] daughter of Frederick Walter Pedersen and wife Ruth Hjorhøy, who thus became "Her Excellency Countess Sussie of Rosenborg" on 7 March 1998, atEgtved, Denmark. He has no children. Ingolf is godfather to his grandnephew, Leopold Rosanes af Rosenborg, who is the grandson of his brotherChristian.[7]
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Count Ingolf usually takes part in major public events associated with the royal family; he and Countess Sussie attended theMay 2004 wedding ofCrown Prince Frederik atCopenhagen Cathedral,[8] and the subsequent reception atFredensborg Palace.[9] They also attended the memorial service in honour of his great-grandauntEmpress Maria Feodorovna of Russia held on 22 September 2006.[10] On some occasions, they are listed as members of the royal family, such as when they attended the wedding ofPrince Joachim in 2008[11] and the luncheon to celebrate the 75th birthday ofPrince Henrik atFredensborg Palace on 11 June 2009[12] On other occasions, such as the celebrations for the Queen's 70th birthday,[13] they are listed along with non-royal guests, but even in these cases at the ceremonies themselves they are usually givenprecedence immediately after his sisterPrincess Elisabeth of Denmark. Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie attended the Queen'sruby-jubilee (40th-anniversary) celebrations. In 1964, when still Prince Ingolf, he acted as groomsman to his third cousin,Constantine II of Greece, on his marriage toPrincess Anne-Marie of Denmark (also Ingolf's first cousin).
According toJyllands-Posten, he carries out official engagements around 200 days of the year, typically relating to agriculture and defence, mostly in Jutland.[14]
Ingolf receives an annual allowance of 1.4 millionkroner according to the Danish Royal House website.[15] His sister,Princess Elisabeth, did not receive such an allowance, though she remained in the line of succession. His brother did not receive it either.
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1 Also prince of Norway 2 Also prince of Greece 3 Also prince of Iceland 4 Also prince of the United Kingdom 5 Not Danish prince by birth, but created prince of Denmark Princes that lost their title are shown in italics | ||