It is my destiny to rule Greenland as the rightful owner. An hour ago I found Princes Margaret of Denmark, who might be in the Last Audience of the Habsburgs. I claimed the Habsburg holdings in North America! What’s going on here? Everything that President Grabby goes for, may be rightfully mine! This is…..Biblical!.
John
Princess Margaret of Denmark
For other people with the same name, see Margaret of Denmark.
Princess Margaret of Denmark (Margrethe Françoise Louise Marie Helene; 17 September 1895 – 18 September 1992) was a Danish princess by birth and a princess of Bourbon-Parma as the wife of Prince René of Bourbon-Parma. She was the youngest grandchild of Christian IX of Denmark.
| Princess Margrethe | |
|---|---|
| Princess René of Bourbon-Parma | |
| Born | 17 September 1895 Bernstorff Palace, Gentofte, Denmark |
| Died | 18 September 1992 (aged 97) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Spouse | Prince René of Bourbon-Parma(m. 1921; died 1962) |
| Issue | Prince Jacques Anne, Queen of Romania Prince Michel Prince André |
| NamesMargrethe Françoise Louise Marie Helene | |
| House | Glücksburg |
| Father | Prince Valdemar of Denmark |
| Mother | Princess Marie d’Orleans |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Biography
Family and background
Princess Margaret was born on 17 September 1895, in Bernstorff Palace north of Copenhagen.[1] She was the fifth child and only daughter of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, and his wife Princess Marie of Orléans.[2] She was named for her mother’s sister Princess Marguerite d’Orléans.[citation needed]
Margaret’s connections to European royalty were extensive and extraordinary. Her father, Prince Valdemar, was one of the six children of King Christian IX of Denmark. He had two older brothers and three sisters. His brothers were, respectively, King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece, while his sisters were Queen Alexandra of the UK, Empress Dagmar of Russia and Thyra, titular queen of Hanover.
Margaret’s mother was the eldest daughter of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres and Princess Françoise of Orléans. Her parents’ marriage had been arranged by their families, as was the custom among European royalty in that era.[3] It had been agreed at the time of her parents’ wedding that all their sons would be raised Lutheran, their father’s creed, and all their daughters Roman Catholic, their mother’s faith. Margaret, the only daughter, thus became the first Danish princess since the Reformation to be raised a Roman Catholic. She was only fourteen years old when her mother died in 1909.
Marriage
Raised a Catholic, Margaret married a Catholic prince, her mother’s relative, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (Schwarzau, 17 October 1894 – Hellerup, Copenhagen, 30 July 1962) on 9 June 1921 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Copenhagen. His father was Robert I, Duke of Parma. His mother was the Duke’s second wife Princess Maria Antonia, daughter of the exiled King Miguel I of Portugal. René was the brother of Empress Zita of Austria and of Felix, the consort of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
René and Margaret had four children:
- Prince Jacques of Bourbon-Parma (9 June 1922 – 5 November 1964; traffic accident outside Roskilde) married Countess Birgitte of Holstein-Ledreborg (descendant of Count Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, former Prime minister of Denmark), on 9 June 1947. They had three children and two grandsons.
- Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma (18 September 1923 – 1 August 2016) she married King Michael I of Romania on 10 June 1948. They had five daughters.
- Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (4 March 1926 – 7 July 2018) he married firstly Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel on 9 June 1951 and they had five children and twelve grandchildren. They divorced in 1966. He married secondly Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, daughter of King Umberto II of Italy, on 17 May 2003.
- Prince André Marie of Bourbon-Parma (6 March 1928 – 22 October 2011) he married Marina Gacry on 2 May 1960. They had three children and six grandchildren:
- Axel André Pierre Marie (b.18 Sep 1968) married Raphaële de Montagnon (b.Paris 9 Jun 1971). They had children:
- Côme Axel Marie (b.1997)
- Alix Jehanne Marina (b.2000)
- Aure Ghislaine Marie (b.2004)
- Sophie Tania (b.1961) married Gilbert Silly dit Gilbert Bécaud (b.1953)
- Astrid Marie (b.1964)
- Axel André Pierre Marie (b.18 Sep 1968) married Raphaële de Montagnon (b.Paris 9 Jun 1971). They had children:
Later life
The family was poor compared to other royalty. They chiefly resided in France, where all of their children were born.[4] In 1939 the family fled from the Nazis and escaped to Spain. From there they went to Portugal and then to the United States. There, in New York, Margaret made a living making hats while her husband worked at a gas company and her daughter as a shop assistant.[5] Her sons were studying in Montreal.[6] They returned to Paris after the war.[4] In June 1951, Margaret was travelling in a car her husband was driving when they ran over a 22-year-old man, Jaja Sorensen, who died soon after being taken to hospital.[7]
Together with her husband and their sons Jacques and André, she took part in the ship tour organized by Queen Frederica and her husband King Paul of Greece in 1954, which became known as the “Cruise of the Kings” and was attended by over 100 royals from all over Europe.
She died one day after her 97th birthday, on the 69th birthday of her daughter Anne. She was the last surviving grandchild of Christian IX.
Ancestors
Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (17 October 1894 – 30 July 1962) was the seventh surviving son of Robert I, Duke of Parma, and his second wife, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. In 1921, he married Princess Margaret of Denmark. They had four children including Anne, the wife of Michael I, former King of Romania.
| Prince René | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 October 1894 Schwarzau am Steinfeld |
| Died | 30 July 1962 (aged 67) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Spouse | Princess Margaret of Denmark (m.1921) |
| Issue | Prince Jacques Anne, Queen of Romania Prince Michel Prince André |
| NamesItalian: Renato Carlo Maria Giuseppe di Borbone-Parma | |
| House | Bourbon-Parma |
| Father | Robert I, Duke of Parma |
| Mother | Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal |
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Early life
Prince René of Bourbon-Parma was the nineteenth child among the twenty four children of the last reigning Duke of Parma, Robert I (1848–1907). Prince Rene’s mother was Duke Robert’s second wife, Princess Maria Antonia, a daughter of the exiled King Miguel I of Portugal. By his father’s first and second marriages, Rene had seventeen siblings who survived childhood. Two of the most famous included Empress Zita of Austria and Prince Felix, the consort of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Prince Rene was born in Schwarzau am Steinfeld. He was raised in Austria.[1] Educated at the Theresianum in Vienna, he graduated from a military academy and served at the Imperial and Royal armed forces as a cavalry officer.
During World War I, René’s brothers, Princes Sixtus and Xavier decided to fight for the cause of the allies, while René and his brothers, Elias, Duke of Parma and Felix fought on the opposite side joining the Austrian Army and the cause of the central powers. Their sister, Zita, was married to Archduke Charles of Austria, who became the Austrian Emperor on November 21, 1916. At the fall of Habsburg monarchy in 1918, Prince René moved to France.
Marriage and children
On 9 June 1921, Prince René married Princess Margaret of Denmark in Copenhagen. She was a daughter of Prince Valdemar of Denmark (himself a younger son of Christian IX of Denmark) by his wife Princess Marie of Orléans. Though her father was a Lutheran, Margaret had been raised in her mother’s Catholic faith.[2] Her parents had agreed before the marriage that all their sons would be raised as Lutherans, their father’s religion, and that all their daughters would be raised as Roman Catholics.
The couple had four children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Jacques of Bourbon-Parma | 9 June 1922[3] | 5 November 1964 (aged 42) | married 1947 to Countess Birgitte Alexandra Maria af Holstein-Ledreborg (1922–2009), descendant of Count Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, former Prime minister of Denmark; had issue |
| Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma | 18 September 1923 | 1 August 2016 (aged 92) | married king Michael I of Romania; had issue |
| Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma | 4 March 1926 | 7 July 2018 (aged 92) | married 1st, Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel, 5 children; married 2nd, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, daughter of King Umberto II of Italy, no issue |
| Prince André of Bourbon-Parma | 6 March 1928 | 1 October 2011 (aged 83) | married 1960 to Marina Gacry; had issue. His descent from Louis XIII was confirmed by DNA in 2013.[4] |
Prince René was a French citizen. A few weeks before the birth of their first child, René and his wife traveled to Paris for a few weeks in order to ensure he was born on French soil.[3] The birth was witnessed by René’s three brothers.[3] Although Prince René’s father had been very wealthy, René’s own personal fortune was not large. Nevertheless, he enjoyed a comfortable existence with his wife and their children. They lived in a large villa in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne. The family’s prosperity was reduced during financial crisis in the 1920s and 1930s.
Later life
At the outbreak of World War II, Prince René tried to join the French Army, unable to do it, he traveled to Finland, where he volunteered for service with the Finnish army. He received a mission from the commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim, to acquire support for Finland from France and Italy, a task more suitable for him than fighting.[5]
His three eldest children joined the allied effort. His sons, Jacques and Michel, fought in Europe and the Far east. His daughter, Anne, trained as a mechanic in Morocco. René’s wife, Princess Margaret, fled from the Nazis in 1939 and escaped to Spain. From there she went to Portugal and then to the United States.[6] In September 1944, Prince René witnessed the liberation of Luxembourg, where his brother, Prince Felix, was the consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte.
After the war ended, Prince René settled with his wife in Denmark. In 1947, they took their daughter, Anne, to the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, both of whom, like Princess Margaret, were direct descendants of Christian IX of Denmark. At the wedding, Princess Anne met her future husband King Michael I of Romania.
In 1953, Prince René was halted by irate motorists for driving while intoxicated, according to a police statement.[7] As a result, Frederik IX of Denmark forbade René from driving an automobile in Denmark for a year. Frederick apparently told René to find someone else to drive him if the Prince desired to travel somewhere within the year.[7]
Together with his wife and their children Jacques and André, he took part in the ship tour organized by Queen Frederica and her husband King Paul of Greece in 1954, which became known as the “Cruise of the Kings” and was attended by over 100 royals from all over Europe.
In 1964, René’s eldest son, Prince Jacques, was killed. He was a motor sport enthusiast, and died in a traffic accident on a highway in Denmark.[8] René himself died on 30 July 1962 at the age of 67.
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