Vilhelmine of Denmark

[norwegianne]

Name: Vilhelmine of Denmark

Birth: 1808

Child of: Frederik VI of Denmark and Marie Sophie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel

Marriage: 1) Frederik VII of Denmark 2) Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Older brother of Christian IX of Denmark)

Death: 1891

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_VI_of_Denmark

 

[magnik]

Portraits post#15 http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php/topic,4262.15.html

 

[Blog Real]

Princess Wilhelmine Marie of Denmark and Norway (Danish: Vilhelmine af Danmark; German: Wilhelmine von Dänemark) (18 January 1808, Kiel, Duchy of Holstein – 30 May 1891 in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany) was a Princess of Denmark by birth, as daughter of King Frederick VI. She married her agnatic second cousin, the future King Frederick VII of Denmark, but the marriage ended in divorce.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Vilhelmine_Marie_of_Denmark

 

[CyrilVladisla]

I like the pink flowers Princess Vilhelmine is wearing in this portrait.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/211247038741696140/

 

[Somebody]

I am reading up on her story. It must be really weird for the population to be ecstatic about your wedding/marriage, while it was a very unhappy one due to her first husband’s (and her father’s heir’s heir), Frederick VII, infidelity and heavy drinking.

It is also stated that she was thought to be infertile as neither of her two marriages (the second was a happy one!) resulted in children… I cannot help but wonder if that might have anything to do with her first husband’s indiscretions.

Her second marriage of course also brought about complications during the First Schleswig War when her husband sided against her family.