Arveprins Knud & Arveprinsesse Caroline Mathilde


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I guess I'm curious as to why the name of a scandalous and disgraced queen remained popular enough to give to Danish princesses. Is "Caroline Mathilde" just a popular Germanic name, generally?
 
I'm trying to compile a list of attendees for the 1976 funeral of Arveprins Knud. Does anyone have a link to photographs or info on the funeral guests? Thanks.
 
I guess I'm curious as to why the name of a scandalous and disgraced queen remained popular enough to give to Danish princesses. Is "Caroline Mathilde" just a popular Germanic name, generally?
Both children were devoted to the memory of their mother and had difficult upbringings under the "care" of their step-grandmother Queen Juliane Marie and the Prince Regent. Because of his mental illness their father the King played a small role in their lives. The siblings were very close and made sure to never forget their mother and remembered those who had taken part in her downfall. King Frederik later reinstated several of Struensee's reforms. They both had daughter's named Caroline (King Frederik had two - one legitimate and one illegitimate) and it was through Princess Louise Augusta's descendants that the name Caroline Mathilde and the blood of Struensee passed into later generations of the Royal family.
 
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They were close cousins and that was admitted . Ingolf and Christian married communors , this was not admitted and they became Rosenborg. Their Sister, the most clever Dane Royal , never married to keep her titlle.
 
I'm trying to compile a list of attendees for the 1976 funeral of Arveprins Knud. Does anyone have a link to photographs or info on the funeral guests? Thanks.
I don’t have that information but i have read an interview with Count Ingolf that i now can’t find a link to (but i think it was an interview for his 70:th birthday) where he said that his father died as a bitter man after the succession-feud with his brothers family, and all the bullying he felt that the danish media had intentionally done to him, that he left clear instructions for his funeral that it should be no state occassion and that it should take place without public attention…

That may explain why it is difficult to find any information about his funeral - except that he is buried in a crypt below Roskilde Cathedral…
 
It's the sapphire tiara that was a gift from Emperor Nicholas and Empress Alexandra to Princess Alexandrine when she married the future Christian X in 1898. After passing from Alexandrine to her daughter-in-law Princess Caroline Mathilde and from her to her son Count Christian AF Rosenborg who gifted it to his wife Anne-Dorthe. After the latter's death in 2014 the tiara was sold to an anonymous buyer who has lent it to the Amalienborg museum.
 
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