Prince Georg and Anne Bowes-Lyon

[kalnel]

Why didn't Georg of Denmark lose his title when he married Anne Bowes-Lyon? Even though she was of a noble British family, I'd think it would have been an unequal marriage...

[NGalitzine]

Supposedly it was because Elizabeth The Queen Mother was a Bowes Lyon , and if a Bowes Lyon was good enough for the King of GB they should be good enough for a minor Danish prince. In short the Danish court did not want to offend the British monarch and his consort.

I do wonder what title their children would have received had they had any. Would they be HH and prince or princess like their father or would they have been made count or countess of Rosenberg? How far in descent from the crown can the princely titles go in Denmark?

[Viv]

Originally Posted by NGalitzine

Supposedly it was because Elizabeth The Queen Mother was a Bowes Lyon , and if a Bowes Lyon was good enough for the King of GB they should be good enough for a minor Danish prince. In short the Danish court did not want to offend the British monarch and his consort.

This is what I have read too!

Originally Posted by NGalitzine

I do wonder what title their children would have received had they had any. Would they be HH and prince or princess like their father or would they have been made count or countess of Rosenberg? How far in descent from the crown can the princely titles go in Denmark?

IMO the matter would have been resolved by King Frederik IX, however my best bet is that the children would have been HH princes and princesses! Otherwise it would have been an issue with the British RF! The Rosenborg-title was out of he question, it was used for those who entered unequal marriages.

Viv

[maria-olivia]

Did princess Anne divorce from Lady Anson and Lord Patrick Lichfield 's father or was she a widow ?

[Viv]

Originally Posted by maria-olivia

Did princess Anne divorce from Lady Anson and Lord Patrick Lichfield 's father or was she a widow ?

She divorced viscount Anson in 1948!

Viv

[lumutqueen]

Princess Anne of Denmark (4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) was the mother of royal photographer, Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Born Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon in Washington D.C. in 1917, she was the daughter of Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon (a son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a brother of the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and his wife, the Hon. Fenella (a daughter of the 21st Baron Clinton).

On 28 April 1938, Anne married Thomas Anson. Thomas held the courtesy title of Viscount Anson and Anne was styled Viscountess Anson upon her marriage and they had two children:

• (Thomas) Patrick John Anson (25 April 1939 – 11 November 2005), later the 5th Earl of Lichfield.
• The Lady. Elizabeth Georgiana Anson (b. 7 June 1941), married Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, 6th Bt.

Anne and Thomas were divorced in 1948 and she subsequently married Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (a great-grandson of both Christian IX of Denmark and Oscar II of Sweden and Norway) on 16 September 1950 at Glamis Castle and became Princess Anne of Denmark. Anne died in 1980, aged 62, in London, of a myocardial infarction.

[maria-olivia]

Lutmutqueen , thanks a lot for the informations I didn't know. M-O.

[Royal Fan]

So Prince Georg was a cousin of Elizabeth II as well correct

[lumutqueen]

Originally Posted by Royal Fan

So Prince Georg was a cousin of Elizabeth II as well correct

Anne Bowes - Lyon was Queen Elizabeth; the Queen Mothers neice.
Queen Elizabeth was sister to Anne's father.
So he's a not real relation of the present queen but was in a way a nephew by marriage for the Queen Mother.

[MAfan]

Well, a real relation between Prince Georg and Queen Elizabeth II exist, since both them descend from King Christian IX of Denmark, being in this way second cousins once removed.
Christian IX - Alexandra - George V - George VI - Elizabeth II
Christian IX - Waldemar - Axel - Georg

[lumutqueen]

Originally Posted by MAfan

Well, a real relation between Prince Georg and Queen Elizabeth II exist, since both them descend from King Christian IX of Denmark, being in this way second cousins once removed.
Christian IX - Alexandra - George V - George VI - Elizabeth II
Christian IX - Waldemar - Axel - Georg

Okay second cousins once removed, but not an immediate relation.

[MAfan]

No, not very immediate, you're right...