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 | | Alexandra Caroline Mary Charlotte Louise Julia 1844-1925, of Denmark, queen-consort of King Edward VII, was born at the Gule Palace, Copenhagen, 1 December 1844, the eldest daughter and second of the six children of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, by his wife, Louise, daughter of the Landgrave William of Hesse-Cassel. |
 | | Her parents lived in modest circumstances at Copenhagen, but her mother, as niece to King Christian VIII (1839-1848), was the natural heiress, after her childless cousin King Frederick VII (1848-1863), and subject to the renunciations of her mother and brother, to the throne of Denmark. |
 | | The death in November of King Frederick VII placed the princess's father on the throne of Denmark as Christian IX, and her second brother, William, was chosen by the European powers to be king of the Hellenes, and crowned under the name of George, the patron saint of Greece. |
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