# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christian-ix-of-denmark
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:28:56.298Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/christian-ix-of-denmark"
name: "Christian IX of Denmark"
slug: "christian-ix-of-denmark"
description: "A Danish king who lost a war, faced decades of political conflict, and died wildly popular — not for what he did, but for whom his children married. His descendants now wear nearly every crown left in Europe."
tagline: "King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christian_IX_of_Denmark_color_altered.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1818-04-08"
deathDate: "1906-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             21.90677966101695
  historical:           25.25218666666667
  currentAttention:     64.28571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Christian IX."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Christian IX grew up a minor prince in Schleswig, a younger son of a junior branch, nowhere near the Danish throne. After his father died in 1831, he was raised in Denmark, trained at the Military Academy of Copenhagen, and in 1842 married Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Ten years later, with the senior royal line dying out, he was named heir presumptive. He became king in 1863 and immediately lost the Second Schleswig War, forfeiting Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg — a defeat that made him deeply unpopular. The next decades brought bitter clashes over the balance of power in Denmark's new constitutional monarchy, with the king on one side and much of the public on the other. But his six children married into the ruling houses of Britain, Russia, Greece, and beyond, and by the time he died in 1906 after forty-three years on the throne, he had become a national symbol — less for his reign than for the web of European royalty that descended from him.