Thyra of Denmark (1853 - 1933)

[MAfan]

Originally Posted by crown

Margrethe, Princesse of Bourbon-Parma (she married René of Bourbon-Parma. Thet had one daughter; Anne, Queen of Romania)

René and Margrethe also had three sons: Prince Jacques (1922-1964, who married to Danish Countess Birgitte Holstein-Ledreborg), Prince Michel (born in 1926, husband firstly of Yolande de Broglie-Revel and secondly and currently to Princess Maria Pia of Savoy) and Prince André (1928-2011).

[CyrilVladisla]

There were rumors about Princess Thyra marrying a British prince, either Prince Alfred of Edinburgh or Prince Arthur of Connaught.
These rumors proved unfounded.

[MAfan]

More precisely, the rumors were about a possible marriage between Thyra and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, or Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught.
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Prince Arthur of Connaught were their namesake sons, and besides were far too young for marrying Princess Thyra.

Another candidate for marrying Thyra was King Willem III of the Netherlands, but he was rejected because he was too old (he was 36 years older than the Princess).

[CyrilVladisla]

Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland: 1878 portrait with a portrait of his fiancee, Princess Thyra
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ern...-36919371.html

[CyrilVladisla]

Thyra with her sisters Alexandra and Dagmar and their mother Queen Louise of Denmark
http://alamy.com/stock-photo-queen-l...-37018500.html

[Blog Real]

Thyra never met her illegitimate daughter?

Where can I read more information about this daughter of Princess Thyra?

[Prinsara]

There isn't much, because it's not well-documented. Or even treated like a historical certainty sometimes.

[Curryong]

I first heard about this birth years ago in the excellent TV series on the Danish Royal Family, ‘A Royal Family’. Queen Daisy and others talk about it quite candidly there. I think a Danish author wrote about it first several years before though. It was quite a sad story because the putative father, a young Danish Army officer supposedly killed himself afterwards, following an interview with Thyra’s father.