Christian VIII

I am trying to find a picture of Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Second wife of King Christian VIII. Although he died in 1848, she remained "Dowager Queen" until she died in 1881. She must have been at at least a few family functions. Any ideas ? I can't find her in any of my usual Danish resources.

There is a photo of her in Bjarne Jensen's "Juvelerne I Det Danske Kongehus", and also of a pictue of a painting of her.  She attended the christenings of the children of the the then Crown Prince Frederik (VIII), and I read that whenever Alexandra Princess of Wales visited Copenhagen she always visited her.  I will try to find the reference.

Two pictures of dowager queen Caroline Amalie.

Thank you both !
Kevin, the source you gave is a bit hard to come by in San Francisco. Even in our otherwise excellent public library. Guess we just do not have enough Danes here !
The pictures were exactly what I was looking for, Kmerov. I wonder why she does not show up more frequently in the family pictures of that era ?

You are welcome!
Caroline Amalie was popular in the royal family and they often visited her, and so did the foreign royalty when they visited Denmark. I don't know why she doesn't appear in family pictures but maybe she was to frail in her last years, or the big gatherings didn't take place after she died in 1881. But I also wonder why!

It could not have been easy for her, being a Princess of the S-H-S- Augustenburg house, when Denmark decided on the S-H-S-Glucksburg house, but the little I have read about her she certainly was not shun by any of the family - her list of godchildren includes so many of the Glucksburgs.  I am at work at the moment but will list the godchildren I know of when i get home. (Yes I should not be logging on here while at work, but it is addictive!!)

The godchildren of Queen Caroline Amalie that I have identified so far -

1843, June 22 - H.H. Prince Frederik of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg (later King Frederik VIII of Denmark)
1845, February 7 - H.H. Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg (later Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and Ireland)
1846, February 7 - H.H. Prince Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg (later King Georg I of the Hellenes)
1848, March 7 - H.H. Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg (later Empress Marie Feodorevna of Russia)
1853, November 23 - H.H. Princess Thyra of Denmark (later Duchess of Cumberland)
1854, November 26 - H.H. Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Cassel
1868, August 6 - H.R.H. Princess Victoria of Wales
1869, March 31 - H.H. Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
1870, October 31 -H.R.H. Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X)
1871, May 17 - H.I.H. Grand Duke George Alexandrovitch of Russia
1872, September 7 - H.R.H. Prince Carl of Denmark (later King Haakon VII of Norway)
1875, March 29 - H.R.H. Princess Louise of Denmark (later Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe)
1876, December 1 - H.R.H. Prince Harald of Denmark
1878, October 6 - H.R.H. Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (later Princess of Sweden and Norway)
1879, October 25 - H.R.H. Princess Marie of Cumberland (later of Princess of Baden)
1880, May 3 - H.R.H. Princess Thyra of Denmark

Did Christian VIII have any other children besides his son and heir Frederick? Not even stillborn babies perhaps?

Was Queen Caroline Amalie related to Prince Christian, husband of Helena, QV's daughter? Was she thus related to Empress Dona of Germany?

Caroline Amalia was Christian's paternal aunt. He was her younger brother Christian's second son, and since he was Dona's uncle(his brother Frederick was her father), Caroline Amalia was Dona's great-aunt. Hope it helps

Thank you. Just insatiably curious as usual. : - )

No prob, I enjoy writing posts on here

[CHRISTIAN VIII]

Did Christian VIII have any other children besides his son and heir Frederick? Not even stillborn babies perhaps?

Apparently not. This branch of the family seemed destined to "daughter out":

CHRISTIAN VIII King of Denmark (1839-48), *Christiansborg 18.9.1786, +Amalienborg 20.1.1848; 1m: Ludwigslust 21.6.1806 (div 1810) Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (*4.12.1784 +13.7.1840); 2m: Augustenburg 22.5.1815 Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (*28.6.1796 +9.3.1881)

1. FREDERIK VII King of Denmark (1848-63), *Amalienborg 6.10.1808, +Glücksburg 15.11.1863; on his death he was succeeded by Pr Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; 1m: København 1.11.1828 (div 1837) Wilhelmine Marie of Denmark (*18.1.1808 +30.5.1891); 2m: Neustrelitz 10.6.1841 (div 1846) Caroline Charlotte Marianne of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (*Neustrelitz 10.1.1821, +Neustrelitz 1.6.1876); 3m: (morganatically) at København 7.8.1850 Lovisa Christina, cr Gfn Danner (*København 21.4.1815, +Cannes 6.3.1874)