Posted by M.Sjostrom on 24/10/2009, 18:36:43
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I got fresh reminders that actually, by the 1830s all relevant branches of the royal family of Denmark had apparently been infiltrated by children sired by other men than royal dynasts......
The then heir-presumptive of the Danish throne, prince Christian Frederik (since 1839, king Christian VIII) seemingly was sired to his Mecklenburger mother by a courtier, Frederik Blücher - not the official father, the late prince-regent Frederik.
and the same with siblings of Christian VIII - also they were said to be spawns of Blücher, instead of the lame former regent.
But, also the only sister of the then-reigning king, Frederik VI,
i.e princess Louise Auguste, was a cuckoo ih the dynastical nest: her biological father appears to been the executed Premier Struensee, who was lover of their Hanoverian mother.
king Frederik VI himself was next to sole child of any of the sons of the late Frederik V, to been actually sired by a member of the dynasty, the official father. And Frederik VI's legitimate daughters were unable to beget children. So, no help from them....
Legally, this illegitimacy seemingly had no impact: the throne was succeeded by cuckoos in that nest, it sufficed that their mothers' husbands had not denied the cuckooed paternities.
Still, this cardhouse of illegitimacies was one of the backgrounds,
when the Sleswick-Holsten Question was developing and culminated, and when Denmark itself also struggled with organizing its succession in 1840s-1850s.
If and when both the line of Louise Auguste and the family (including siblings) of Christian VIII, were illegitimate,
then (after the childless daughters of Frederik VI)
the heirs in blood of the dynasty were the issue of daughters of the late king Frederik V.
These included the deposed king of Sweden, the prince-elector of Hesse, the childless princes of Panker and Hessen, and the duchess-consort of Glücksborg.
Who clearly carried on the blood of the dynasty, while issue of their brothers were so much cuckooed.
