Queen Ingrid

[Liva]

pictures from scanpix:

[Scott]

Thank you Liva for all these great photos. Prince Frederik was really close to his grandmother wasn't he. It shows in any photo he is with her. Their relationship actualy reminds me of that of Prince Charles POW and the Queen Mother. It really is nice to see. I wonder if the new little Prince will have that kind of relationship with Queen Margrethe? I do hope so.

Scott

[foiegrass]

Ingrid, Fredrick, Margarethe, Beneditke, Anne-Marie.
They really look like one happy family ((:

[Aussie Princess]

yes, i love seeing the old pictures of them together as a family, so lovely. Ingrid was a great Queen.

[UserDane]

Originally Posted by Aussie Princess

yes, i love seeing the old pictures of them together as a family, so lovely. Ingrid was a great Queen.

She was indeed. And as a child, the most beautiful little girl I think I have ever seen - it's almost surreal: http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs5...den1910-67.jpg

[foiegrass]

was it true that ingrid was upset when her father married Lady Louise Mountbatten.

[Aussie Princess]

Originally Posted by UserDane

She was indeed. And as a child, the most beautiful little girl I think I have ever seen - it's almost surreal: http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs5...den1910-67.jpg

I've seen that picture before and you could really think you were looking at a picture of a doll!
I've seen some old video footage of her with one of her grandchildren running up to her to hug her and I thought they were going to knock her down, shelooked kind of frail, (probably because of her size)but she caught him!:p

[UserDane]

Originally Posted by Aussie Princess

I've seen that picture before and you could really think you were looking at a picture of a doll!
I've seen some old video footage of her with one of her grandchildren running up to her to hug her and I thought they were going to knock her down, shelooked kind of frail, (probably because of her size)but she caught him!:p

LOL - I bet she did. I think queen Ingrid could do whatever she set her mind on doing :) There are lots of other really pretty pictures of Ingrid at the Worldroots link if you haven't already seen them.

[michelleq]

Originally Posted by foiegrass

was it true that ingrid was upset when her father married Lady Louise Mountbatten.

I do remember reading something on the order of this; that she always referred to Louise as her "Stepmother". I believe that their relationship was quite frosty. I don't know how it was between her brothers and Louise, but there was not any love lost between Louise and Ingrid. Actually, she always had photos and items of her mother's about her. I believe that she always felt the loss of her mother and that was why she was an extraordinary mother and wife and her daughters as well as their children are so close. She was an extraordinary woman and Queen, in my honest opinion.

[Daneborn]

Originally Posted by michelleq

I do remember reading something on the order of this; that she always referred to Louise as her "Stepmother". I believe that their relationship was quite frosty. I don't know how it was between her brothers and Louise, but there was not any love lost between Louise and Ingrid. Actually, she always had photos and items of her mother's about her. I believe that she always felt the loss of her mother and that was why she was an extraordinary mother and wife and her daughters as well as their children are so close. She was an extraordinary woman and Queen, in my honest opinion.

and also she kept her mother's interest for gardening alive plus naming her daughter Margrethe, which is Danish for Margaret / Margaretha, with the nick name Daisy, as her mother.

i agree she was an extraordinary woman and Queen.

[michelleq]

She is in the top 5 (if not #1) of my favorite Queens.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

from point de vue

[sm1939]

Was Queen Ingrid's marriage a love match ??

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally Posted by sm1939

Was Queen Ingrid's marriage a love match ??

I think the marriage was a mach made in heaven

[Josefine]

When did the Queen do her last official duty
and were she called queen or Dowager Queen?

[GrandDuchessOlga]

In danish media she was only referred as Queen. I´ve never heard her being called dowager queen even though she actually was.

I don´t know her exact last official duty but as to my rememberance (sp?) she was active until almost the very last. Someone correct me if I´m wrong

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by GrandDuchessOlga

In danish media she was only referred as Queen. I´ve never heard her being called dowager queen even though she actually was.

I don´t know her exact last official duty but as to my rememberance (sp?) she was active until almost the very last. Someone correct me if I´m wrong

She has been referred to as enkedronning Ingrid (Dowager Queen Ingrid) on occasions (as in this article on Frederik and Mary moving into her old home) - but Dronning Ingrid was the most frequent form.

[GrandDuchessOlga]

Hmm... Enkedronning Ingrid and Dowager Queen Ingrid somehow sounds weird cause you´re not used to it

[MargreteI]

Queen Ingrid never held the title Dowager Queen but was styled Queen Ingrid for life. Meaning that during her daughters reign and while she was still alive Denmark oficially had two queens. Though only one Monarch.

This was the request of the young Monarch back in 1972 when her father had just died, that her mother not be dowager queen, but to be titled Queen Ingrid also in future.

:)
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[Furienna]

That was a sweet thing to do by Margarethe.