Princess Isabella of Denmark

Princess Isabella Countess of Monpezat Isabella in 2010 Born 21 April 2007 Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Full name Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe Father Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Mother Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark Religion Church of Denmark

Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe; born 21 April 2007), is the second child and elder daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.

She is the fourth grandchild and oldest granddaughter of Queen Margrethe II and her husband Henrik. She was the first girl born into the Danish royal family since the birth of her grandaunt, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, in 1946. The Princess is third in the line of succession to the Danish throne, after her father and her older brother, Prince Christian.

Birth and christening

Princess Isabella was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. She weighed 3.350 kg and was 50 cm long at birth.^[1] At noon on 22 April, a 21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen Naval Base in Copenhagen and from Kronborg Castle in North Zealand to mark her birth.

Isabella's christening took place on 1 July 2007, at the chapel of Fredensborg Palace. She wore the same christening gown her older brother, Prince Christian, had worn at his christening the year before and that Glücksborg princes and princesses in the main line had worn since the christening of the future King Christian X in 1870. Her name was announced as Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, after the Danish queen consort and ancestor Isabella of Austria, the princess's maternal grandmother, paternal great-grandmother, and paternal grandmother respectively. Her godparents were the then-Duchess of Brabant, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering, and Marie Louise Skeel.^[2]

Isabella accompanied her parents to New York on 17–21 September 2007 on a visit to promote Denmark's "Creative Nation" initiative, according to court spokesperson Lis M. Frederiksen, because she was still being breastfed.^[3]

Constitutional position and education

On 20 December 2007, as he had done the previous year for Prince Christian, Per Stig Møller, Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs, formally wrote and signed a hand-written document confirming Isabella's position as third in the line of succession to the Danish throne. The Princess's full name, dates of birth and christening, and the names of her godparents were recorded as dictated by the Royal Law of 1799.^[4][5]

On 13 August 2013, Isabella started school at Tranegårdsskolen in Gentofte, the same public school as her older brother.^[6]

Titles and styles

• 21 April 2007 – 29 April 2008: Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark
• 29 April 2008 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat

Isabella is styled as "Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat". She has been Princess of Denmark since birth and Countess of Monpezat since 29 April 2008, when Queen Margrethe granted the title to her male-line descendants.^[7]

Honours and decorations

Medals

• 11 June 2009: Commemorative 75th Birthday Medal of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort
• 16 April 2010: Commemorative 70th Birthday Medal of Her Majesty The Queen
• 14 January 2012: Commemorative Ruby Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty The Queen
• 16 April 2015: Commemorative 75th Birthday Medal of Her Majesty The Queen

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Isabella of Denmark

16. Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat               8. Count André de Laborde de Monpezat                       17. Henriette Hallberg               4. Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat                             18. Maurice Doursenot               9. Renée Yvonne Doursenot                       19. Marthe Gay               2. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark                                   20. Christian X of Denmark               10. Frederick IX of Denmark                       21. Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin               5. Margrethe II of Denmark                             22. Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden               11. Princess Ingrid of Sweden                       23. Princess Margaret of Connaught               1. Princess Isabella of Denmark                                         24. Alexander Donaldson               12. Peter Donaldson                       25. Jean Stevenson               6. John Dalgleish Donaldson                             26. John Dalgleish               13. Mary Dalgleish                       27. Barbara McDonald Baisley               3. Mary Elizabeth Donaldson                                   28. John Thomas Tait Horne               14. Archibald Horne                       29. Henrietta Clark               7. Henrietta Clark Horne                             30. William Melrose               15. Elizabeth Gibson Melrose                       31. Catherine Smith

References

1. Kongehuset – Aktuelt – Den Kongelige Familie. Kongehuset.dk (21 May 2010). Retrieved on 18 July 2015.
2. "Godparents to Her Royal Highness the Princess". Kronprinsparret.dk. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2007.
3. "Prins Christian alene hjemme". Billed-Bladet.dk. 23 August 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
4. "Isabella klar til at regere". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
5. "Official registration of Isabelle as Heir to the Danish throne". Retrieved 20 December 2007.
6. "H.K.H. PRINSESSE ISABELLAS SKOLESTART". Retrieved 11 February 2013.
7. "Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella". Danish Royal Court. Retrieved 22 December 2013. Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat...

External links

• Official website
• New Danish princess named Isabella