What Happened To Christian IX of Denmark's Daughters After He Died

Christian IX of Denmark answered to a nickname that outlived him by a century: the Father-in-Law of Europe. By the time he closed his eyes at the Amalienborg Palace on 29 January 1906, his children and grandchildren sat on, or would soon sit on, the thrones of Britain, Russia, Greece, and Norway, which lifted a minor German-descended prince who once scraped by on a soldier's pay into the dynastic hinge of an entire continent. His three daughters carried Danish blood into three of the grandest courts on earth, and for decades those marriages looked like an unbeatable hand. Then the century turned mean. Alexandra, the eldest, traveled to Britain in 1863 to marry Bertie, the pleasure-seeking Prince of Wales, and waited nearly four decades to wear a crown. Music used in the video: Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/