Word: frederik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, who was Sweden's pretty, blonde Princess Ingrid...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
Soldier Son. On the spring evening 25 years ago when Christian was called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...
...decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered plane to Copenhagen in time for his father's celebration...
...Very Last Minute. Meanwhile slandered Edward, who had paused for only an hour in Hamburg, was winging toward Copenhagen, escorted by four squadrons of Danish Air Force Planes. Ten thousand Danes roared a welcome as he landed at Kastrup, Copenhagen's airport, and was warmly greeted by Crown Prince Frederik, Prince Valdemar (the King of Denmark's uncle) and three of his sons, Prince Erik, Prince Viggo and Prince Axel. Exclaimed Britain's Edward, whose grandmother was Denmark's Alexandria: "Do you know it has been 20 years since I was in Denmark...