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Christian IX

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noun

  1. 1818–1906, king of Denmark 1863–1906.


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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, 83, was a third cousin — related by way of both Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023

Educated in Copenhagen's Metropolitanskole, he had served an 18-month term as a private in the army, often standing sentry duty on frosty nights outside the palace of his grandfather, Christian IX, who died in 1906.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of them are great-great-great-grandchildren of King Christian IX of Denmark, and four of them are his great-great-grandchildren as well.

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During a period of near-anarchy in Athens, a Greek delegation went to Denmark to beg King Christian IX to allow his son, Prince William George, to become their king.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon afterwards, Frederick VII. of Denmark died, and his successor, Christian IX.,

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor

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