Christian IX of Denmark
King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906
- Fame59.2
- Momentum2.0
- Historical Figures rank#173
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- Fame59.2
- Momentum2.0
- Historical Figures rank#173
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Lived 1818–1906, aged 88Germany
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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.
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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…
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