Princess Isabella of Denmark

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

Princess Isabella
Countess of Monpezat
Born (2007-04-21) 21 April 2007 (age 16)
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Full name
Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe
HouseGlucksburg (cognatic) Monpezat (agnatic)
FatherFrederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
MotherMary Donaldson
ReligionChurch of Denmark

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

Biography

 
Princess Isabella in 2023

Princess Isabella was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.[1]

She was christened on 1 July 2007, at the Royal Chapel of Fredensborg Palace as Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, after the Danish queen consort and ancestress Isabella of Austria, the princess's maternal grandmother, paternal great-grandmother, and paternal grandmother respectively. Her godparents were her father's first cousin, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark; Queen Mathilde of Belgium (then Duchess of Brabant), Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering and Marie Louise Skeel.[2] Isabella was confirmed in the Lutheran church in the same chapel on 30 April 2022.[3]

Titles and styles

 
Royal monogram

21 April 2007-29 April 2008 Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark[4]

29 April 2008 Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat

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References

  1. Kongehuset – Aktuelt – Den Kongelige Families Kongehuset.dk (21 May 2010). Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. Godparents to Her Royal Highness the Princess. Kronprinsparret.dk. 1 June 2007. http://www.kronprinsparret.dk/4ef0029. Retrieved 1 June 2007. 
  3. "HRH Princess Isabella's confirmation". Danish royal family. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  4. "Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella". Danish Royal Court. Retrieved 22 December 2013. Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat...

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Princess Isabella of Denmark
Born: 21 April 2007
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Prince Christian of Denmark
Line of succession to the Danish throne
3rd position
Succeeded by
Prince Vincent of Denmark