Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Danish: Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg), from Glücksburg in northernmost Germany, is a branch of the House of Oldenburg that is descended from King Christian III of Denmark. Its members include the royal houses of Denmark and Norway, the deposed royal house of Greece, and the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom.
This particular line comes from the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. The...
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Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Danish: Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg), from Glücksburg in northernmost Germany, is a branch of the House of Oldenburg that is descended from King Christian III of Denmark. Its members include the royal houses of Denmark and Norway, the deposed royal house of Greece, and the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom.
This particular line comes from the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. The last of them became Duke of Glücksburg and changed his title accordingly to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He was married to Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, a granddaughter of King Frederick V of Denmark.
Neither the Dukes of Beck nor of Glücksburg were sovereign rulers — they held their lands in fief to the sovereign dukes of Schleswig and Holstein (the Kings of Denmark) and, before 1773, the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp.
Christian IX of Denmark, the fourth son of Friedrich Wilhelm, was chosen by...
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