Princess Isabella of Denmark

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Princess Isabella
Countess of Monpezat
File:Prinsesse Isabella.jpg
Isabella in 2010
Born (2007-04-21) 21 April 2007 (age 16)
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Full name
Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe
Father Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Mother Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Religion Church of Denmark

Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe; born 21 April 2007), is the second child and elder daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.

She is the fourth grandchild and oldest granddaughter of Queen Margrethe II and her husband Henrik. She was the first girl born into the Danish royal family since the birth of her grandaunt, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, in 1946. The Princess is third in the line of succession to the Danish throne, after her father and her older brother, Prince Christian.

Birth and christening

Princess Isabella was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. She weighed 3.350 kg and was 50 cm long at birth.[1] At noon on 22 April, a 21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen Naval Base in Copenhagen and from Kronborg Castle in North Zealand to mark her birth.

Isabella's christening took place on 1 July 2007, at the chapel of Fredensborg Palace. She wore the same christening gown her older brother, Prince Christian, had worn at his christening the year before and that Glücksborg princes and princesses in the main line had worn since the christening of the future King Christian X in 1870. Her name was announced as Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, after the Danish queen consort and ancestor Isabella of Austria, the princess's maternal grandmother, paternal great-grandmother, and paternal grandmother respectively. Her godparents were the then-Duchess of Brabant, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering, and Marie Louise Skeel.[2]

Isabella accompanied her parents to New York on 17–21 September 2007 on a visit to promote Denmark's "Creative Nation" initiative, according to court spokesperson Lis M. Frederiksen, because she was still being breastfed.[3]

Constitutional position and education

On 20 December 2007, as he had done the previous year for Prince Christian, Per Stig Møller, Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs, formally wrote and signed a hand-written document confirming Isabella's position as third in the line of succession to the Danish throne. The Princess's full name, dates of birth and christening, and the names of her godparents were recorded as dictated by the Royal Law of 1799.[4][5]

On 13 August 2013, Isabella started school at Tranegårdsskolen in Gentofte, the same public school as her older brother.[6]

Titles and styles

  • 21 April 2007 – 29 April 2008: Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark
  • 29 April 2008 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat

Isabella is styled as "Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat". She has been Princess of Denmark since birth and Countess of Monpezat since 29 April 2008, when Queen Margrethe granted the title to her male-line descendants.[7]

Honours and decorations

Medals
  • Denmark 11 June 2009: Commemorative 75th Birthday Medal of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort
  • Denmark 16 April 2010: Commemorative 70th Birthday Medal of Her Majesty The Queen
  • Denmark 14 January 2012: Commemorative Ruby Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty The Queen
  • Denmark 16 April 2015: Commemorative 75th Birthday Medal of Her Majesty The Queen

Ancestry

Family of Princess Isabella of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Count André de Laborde de Monpezat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Henriette Hallberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Maurice Doursenot
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Renée Yvonne Doursenot
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Marthe Gay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Christian X of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Frederick IX of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Margrethe II of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Princess Ingrid of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Princess Margaret of Connaught
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Princess Isabella of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Alexander Donaldson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Peter Donaldson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Jean Stevenson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. John Dalgleish Donaldson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. John Dalgleish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Mary Dalgleish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Barbara McDonald Baisley
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. John Thomas Tait Horne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Archibald Horne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Henrietta Clark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Henrietta Clark Horne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. William Melrose
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Elizabeth Gibson Melrose
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Catherine Smith
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Kongehuset – Aktuelt – Den Kongelige Familie. Kongehuset.dk (21 May 2010). Retrieved on 18 July 2015.
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Princess Isabella of Denmark
Born: 21 April 2007
Lines of succession
Preceded by Line of succession to the Danish throne
3rd position
Succeeded by
Prince Vincent of Denmark
Preceded by Line of succession to the British throne
descended from Arthur, son of Victoria
Succeeded by
Princess Josephine of Denmark