Daughters of Frederick VIII & Queen Louise

[Danjel]

Can anyone provide me with info or pics of Princess Dagmar, Mrs. Castenskiold and her children/grandchildren??

I do have some pics, which I shall post, but I'm curious about her family...

[Danjel]

[LenelorMiksi]

I picked this up on another thread, I forget which one, but Q. Louise kept Dagmar very close to her and refused to allow her to attend a number of family functions.

[grandduchessella]

Probably either the Dagmar or Aunt Swan thread. There's a good deal of information on the lives of the children there.

[kmerov]

Crown Princess Louise visiting Princess Louise and her first child.

[cimbrio]

Amorous and/or sexual relations between men and women are generally (and in my oppinion wrongly) thought to be something of today. I have a friend for instance whose great-grandmother (he says she was quite wealthy and was able to maintain a few maids) kept a woman in her service who eventually became her female lover! I don't know if royal ladies kept mistresses but I don't think it's such an amazing fact, nor do I think that every bachelor prince or spinster princess had homosexual inclinations necessarily... Personally I'm more interested in the political/historical side of royalty's life... gossip can remain in the anecdote section and the background...

[Eric_Lowe]

Apart from the historical and political aspects, the personal side can be very interesting too.  

[grandduchessella]

Personally I'm more interested in the political/historical side of royalty's life... gossip can remain in the anecdote section and the background...

I'm interested in both. I think the personal side helps to understand a person's character. Also, since many royals never had a 'political' side not being a monarch or influential, it's where much of their story lies. I don't like gossip for gossip sake or unfounded rumors but so many interesting stories can be found. Reading QV and Vicky's letters, for example, have a good deal of family news, some might call it gossip, that just sheds fascinating light onto various royal personages. Between those two, not much was missed!

[anabel]

Poor Thyra...she must have been the least attractive in a family of unattractive sisters...it has always struck me how the three eldest boys (Frederick, Carl and Harald) were nice-looking but the sisters (maybe with the exception of Louise and Ingeborg) were so plain-looking.

Actually I think that Thyra was the most attractive of the sisters...

[frimousse]

In 1900,  it was reported that King Oscar was making arrangements for the marriage of his son, Eugene, to Thyra (who would be bringing a good dowry.)  

[grandduchessella]

Interesting! Eugen never did marry. He was great friends with Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden and the two would talk about art together and paint.

[Luc]

Could anyone provide me with photos of Princess Thyra in old age ? And did she inherit any jewelry from her mother Queen Louisa that is now in the Danish royal family ?

[Eric_Lowe]

I had a postcard, but do not have a scan.

[Marlene]

   Eugen never married but he certainly had male lovers.

[Eric_Lowe]

Maybe that is why the match never flew. Little research had been done on the daughters of Frederick VIII. Coryne Hall did an artilcle on them...that was about it.