:Frederick VIII of Denmark

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Frederik VIII

| image = Frederik VIII of Denmark 1909.jpg

| caption = Frederik VIII in 1909

| succession = King of Denmark

| moretext = (more...)

| reign = 29 January 1906 – {{nowrap|14 May 1912}}

| predecessor = Christian IX

| successor = Christian X

| birth_name = Prince Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1843|6|3}}

| birth_place = Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1912|5|14|1843|6|3}}

| death_place = Hamburg, German Empire

| burial_place = Roskilde Cathedral

| spouse = {{marriage|Louise of Sweden|28 July 1869}}

| issue = {{plainlist|

}}

| full name = Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl

| house = Glücksburg

| father = Christian IX of Denmark

| mother = Louise of Hesse-Kassel

| religion = Church of Denmark

| signature = Signature of Frederick VIII of Denmark.svg

}}

Frederik VIII ({{langx|da|Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl}}; 3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.

As the eldest son of King Christian IX, nicknamed the Father-in-law of Europe, Frederick was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was heir apparent to the Danish throne and served as crown prince for more than 42 years. During the long reign of his father, he was largely excluded from influence and political power.{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/dbl/5/0329.html |title =Frederik (Christian F. Vilhelm Carl) f. 1843, Kronprins|website= Dansk biografisk Lexikon

|access-date=1 November 2019}} Upon his father's death in 1906, he acceded to the throne at the advanced age of 62. In many ways, Frederick VIII was a liberal monarch who was much more favorable to the new parliamentary system introduced in 1901 than his father had been, being reform-minded and democratically inclined. Due to his late accession to the throne, however, Frederick's reign would last only six years, throughout which he was plagued by ill health.

Frederick VIII was married to Louise of Sweden, with whom he had eight children. Their eldest son succeeded his father as Christian X of Denmark, while their second son, Carl, ascended the Norwegian throne as Haakon VII in 1905.

Early life

File:Det Gule Palae Copenhagen.jpg in Copenhagen]]

Prince Frederick was born on 3 June 1843 in the Yellow Palace, an 18th-century town house at 18 Amaliegade, immediately adjacent to the Amalienborg Palace complex, the principal residence of the Danish royal family in the district of Frederiksstaden in central Copenhagen.{{sfn|Thorsøe|1891|p=327}} He was the eldest son and child of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim.{{cite book|author-link=Hugh Massingberd|last=Montgomery-Massingberd|first=Hugh|year=1977|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World|volume=1|location=London|publisher=Burke's Peerage|isbn=0-220-66222-3}}. pp. 69–70.{{cite web

|url= https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1915/origin/170/ |title =Louise Vilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Augusta Julie

|website= Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon|access-date=1 November 2019}} His father's family was a cadet branch of the Danish royal House of Oldenburg, which was descended from Christian III and which had ruled as non-sovereign dukes in Schleswig-Holstein for eight generations. He was baptised on 22 June with the names Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl, and was known as Prince Frederick.{{cite book|first1=Lone|last1=Hindø|first2=Else|last2=Boelskifte|title=Kongelig Dåb. Fjorten generationer ved Rosenborg-døbefonten|trans-title=Royal Baptisms. Fourteen generations at the Rosenborg baptismal font|publisher=Forlaget Hovedland|year=2007|isbn=978-87-7070-014-6|page=87-88}} To the family he was known as Fredy throughout his life.{{sfn|Smidt|2020}}

File:Christian IX of Denmark and family 1862.jpg, Frederick, Valdemar, Christian IX, Queen Louise, Thyra, George and Alexandra.]]

He had five younger siblings: Alexandra (1844–1925), William (1845–1913), Dagmar (1847–1928), Thyra (1853–1933) and Valdemar (1858–1939). Although they were of royal blood,{{efn|His parents were both great-grandchildren of Frederick V of Denmark and great-great-grandchildren of King George II of Great Britain.}} the family lived a comparatively normal life. They did not possess great wealth; their father's income from an army commission was about £800 per year and their house was a rent-free grace and favour property.Duff, David (1980). Alexandra: Princess and Queen (London: Collins) {{ISBN|0-00-216667-4}}, pp. 16–17. Occasionally, Hans Christian Andersen was invited to call and tell the children stories before bedtime.Duff, p. 18.

In 1853, it was clear that the main line of the Oldenburg dynasty would become extinct with King Frederick VII, who was elderly and childless. Frederick's mother was very close to the succession, as she was a niece of the previous Oldenburg king, Christian VIII, through his sister. With the other heirs from the House of Hesse-Kassel having renounced their claims to the Danish throne in favour of Louise, who in turn relinquished her own claim, his father was eventually chosen as the heir presumptive. Accordingly, Frederick was created a Prince of Denmark.{{cite web|url= http://www.kongernessamling.dk/en/amalienborg/person/christian-ix/ |title =Christian IX|website= Amalienborg |access-date=1 November 2019}}

File:Carrol, Lewis - Frederick, Kronprinz von Dänemark (Zeno Fotografie).jpg in 1863 during his stay in Oxford.]]

On 19 October 1860, he was confirmed together with his sister Princess Alexandra in the chapel of Christiansborg Palace.{{sfn|Thorsøe|1891|p=327}} After his confirmation, Prince Frederick was given an extensive military education, pursuing a career in the Royal Danish Navy alongside his brother Valdemar. In 1863, Frederick was sent to study political science at the University of Oxford, but returned to Denmark upon his father becoming king in November that year. As heir apparent to the throne, he was given a seat in the State Council and subsequently assisted his father in the duties of government. In 1864, he formally took part in the Second Schleswig War against Prussia and Austria.

The crown prince was a member of the Danish Order of Freemasons, serving as its Grand Master from 1871 until his death.{{cite book|editor-last=Kjeldsen |editor-first=Jørgen|title=I Guld og Himmelblåt – Frimureriet i Danmark gennem 250 år, 1743–1993|location=Copenhagen, Denmark|publisher=Den Danske Frimurerorden / Nyt Nordisk Forlag|edition=2|date=1993|pages=161–174|language=da|isbn=87-17-06379-5}}

Marriage

File:Fredrik og Lovisa.jpg]]

Queen Louise wanted her eldest son to marry as well as had her two daughters, Alexandra and Dagmar. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom had two yet unmarried daughters, Princess Helena and Princess Louise, and Queen Louise planned to have Frederick marry one of them. During his stay in England, Crown Prince Frederik actually took an interest in Princess Helena, and although his feelings were reciprocated, the connection did not materialize, as Queen Victoria opposed it.{{sfn|Bramsen|1992|p=260-67}} Victoria did not want her daughters to marry heirs to foreign thrones, as this would force them to live abroad, instead preferring German princes who could establish homes in England. In addition, Victoria had always been pro-German and another Danish alliance (Frederick's sister, Alexandra, had married Victoria's eldest son Edward, Prince of Wales), would not have been in line with her German interests.{{cite web|url= https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-queen-alexandra-4582642 |title = Biography of Queen Alexandra |website= thoughtco.com |access-date=1 December 2019}}{{cite web|url= http://www.kongernessamling.dk/amalienborg/person/alexandra/ |title =Alexandra|website= Amalienborg |access-date=1 November 2019}}

After this failed marriage attempt, attention turned instead to Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway, the only daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway. Princess Louise belonged to the Bernadotte dynasty, which had ruled in Sweden since 1818, when the founder, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon Bonaparte's generals, was elected crown prince of Sweden in 1810 and later succeeded the throne as King Charles XIV John in 1818. He married Désirée Clary, who had once been engaged to the French Emperor. Charles XIV's son, Oscar I, had married Josephine of Leuchtenberg, the granddaughter of Napoleon's first wife, the Empress Josephine. King Oscar I and Queen Josephine were Princess Louise's paternal grandparents.{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sbh/b0095.html|title = Lovisa – Lovisa Josephina Eugenia |website= Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |access-date=1 November 2019}}

The marriage was suggested as a way of creating friendship between Denmark and Sweden. Relations between the two countries had been tense after Sweden had not assisted Denmark during the war with Prussia in 1864. Frederick and Louise had met for the first time in 1862, but in 1868, Frederick was invited to Sweden to get to know Louise, and their meeting was described as a success. In July that same year, Crown Prince Frederick—then 25 years old—became engaged to the 17-year-old Princess Louise. A year later, they were married in the chapel at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on 28 July 1869. Louise was the first Swedish princess to be married into the Danish royal house since the Middle Ages, and the marriage was welcomed in all three Scandinavian countries as a symbol of the new Scandinavism.

File:King FrederickVIIIof denmark and lovisa of sweden.jpg

On 10 August 1869, the newlyweds made their entrance into Copenhagen, where they received a warm welcome. As their residence, the couple was awarded Frederik VIII's Palace, an 18th century palace which forms part of the Amalienborg Palace complex in central Copenhagen. As their country residence they received Charlottenlund Palace, located on the shores of the Øresund Strait 10 kilometers north of Copenhagen. Here they had a refuge far away from court life at Amalienborg and here several of their children were born. Frederick and Louise had four sons and four daughters born between 1870 and 1890: Prince Christian, Prince Carl, Princess Louise, Prince Harald, Princess Ingeborg, Princess Thyra, Prince Gustav and Princess Dagmar. Their eldest sons, Christian and Carl, would become kings of Denmark and Norway respectively.{{cite web|url= http://www.kongernessamling.dk/amalienborg/person/christian-10/ |title =Christian 10 |website= Amalienborg

|access-date=1 November 2019}}{{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Haakon_7 |title =Haakon 7|website=Store norske leksikon |access-date=1 November 2019}} Due to the many children, Charlottenlund Palace was rebuilt to accommodate the large family, and in 1880–81, the palace was expanded with a dome and two side wings.

Heir apparent to the throne

Frederick was crown prince for 43 years and used the time to prepare carefully for his reign. Even though he, as heir apparent to the throne, had a seat in the Council of State, his father made sure to largely exclude him from influence and political power.{{sfn|Bramsen|1992|p=270}}

Reign

File:The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII.jpg for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: Frederick VIII's son King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.]]

File:Frederik IIX - Otto Bache.jpg (1910).]]

On 29 January 1906, King Christian IX died peacefully at the age of 87, after a reign of 43 years. Upon his father's death, Frederick succeeded to the throne at the age of 62. He was proclaimed king from the balcony of Christian VII's Palace at Amalienborg by the Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen as Frederick VIII.

Due to his late accession to the throne, Frederick's reign would last only six years, throughout which he was plagued by ill health. In many ways, Frederick VIII was a liberal monarch who was much more favorable to the new parliamentarian system than his father had been, being reform-minded and democratically inclined.

Death

On 14 May 1912, while on his return journey from a trip to Nice with his wife and four of his children, the king made a short stop in Hamburg, staying at the Hotel Hamburger Hof under the pseudonym "Count Kronberg". That evening, Frederick—while incognito—went out for a stroll on the Jungfernstieg, during which he became faint and collapsed on a park bench at Gänsemarkt. He was discovered by a police officer who took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead; his cause of death was announced as a heart attack. As Frederick was incognito at the time and had no papers on him, his body was brought to the local morgue, where he was identified by the hotel manager the next morning.

Rumors soon began to circulate about a possible scandal involving the king, as the place where he collapsed and died at was near a well-known brothel. The local police did not disclose details about the investigation, for fear of causing distress to the royal family.{{cite journal|author=Bernhard Röhl|date=10 March 2003|title=Der Tod kam mit dem Sex|url=https://taz.de/!803428/|page=22|journal=Die Tageszeitung|language=de}}

Frederick's body was transported via a special train to Travemünde, after which he was brought back to Denmark by the royal yacht Dannebrog. After lying in state at the chapel of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, he was interred in Christian IX's Chapel in Roskilde Cathedral on the island of Zealand, the traditional burial site for Danish monarchs since the 15th century.{{cite web|url=https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=frederik8|title=Frederik VIII|website=gravsted.dk|access-date=11 October 2022|language=da}}

Descendants

The reigning families of Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Luxembourg are descended from King Frederick VIII; Denmark's through his eldest son Christian X, and Norway's through his second son, Haakon VII as well as through his daughter, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. The royal family of Belgium and grand ducal family of Luxembourg are both also descended from Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.{{cite web|url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11950

|title =Ingeborg C C F L|website= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|access-date=1 November 2019}}

Titles, styles, honours, and arms

= Titles and styles =

During his reign, the King's full style was: His Majesty Frederick VIII, By the Grace of God, King of Denmark, of the Wends and of the Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, Lauenburg and Oldenburg.{{efn|In spite of the fact that Denmark had lost the duchies as a consequence of the Treaty of Vienna in 1864, this style continued to be used until the 1972 accession of Queen Margrethe II.}}{{cite web |url=http://eurulers.altervista.org/denmark.html |title=Denmark |website=Titles of European hereditary rulers |language=en |access-date=23 July 2023 |archive-date=10 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210010251/http://eurulers.altervista.org/denmark.html|url-status=live}}

=Honours=

The Kronprins Frederiks Bro in Frederikssund and King Frederick VIII Land in Greenland are named after him.

National orders and decorations{{cite book |year=1906 |orig-year=1st pub.:1801 |editor1-last=Bille-Hansen |editor1-first=A. C. |editor2-last=Holck |editor2-first=Harald |title=Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1906 |trans-title=State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1906 |url=https://dis-danmark.dk/bibliotek/921842.pdf#page=39 |format=PDF |series=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender |language=da |location=Copenhagen |publisher=J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri |pages=3, 6 |access-date=30 April 2020 |via=:da:DIS Danmark}}

Knight of the Elephant, 3 June 1861
Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 3 June 1861
Grand Commander of the Dannebrog, 28 July 1869
Commemorative Medal for the Golden Wedding of King Christian IX and Queen Louise, 1892

Foreign orders and decorations{{cite book |year=1912 |orig-year=1st pub.:1801 |editor1-last=Bille-Hansen |editor1-first=A. C. |editor2-last=Holck |editor2-first=Harald |title=Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1912 |trans-title=State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1912 |url=https://dis-danmark.dk/bibliotek/918019.pdf#page=40 |format=PDF |series=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender |language=da |location=Copenhagen |publisher=J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri |page=2 |access-date=30 April 2020 |via=:da:DIS Danmark}}

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{{flagicon image|Flag of Anhalt Duchies.png}} Ascanian duchies: Grand Cross of the Order of Albert the Bear, 4 April 1863Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Herzogtum Anhalt (1867) "Herzoglicher Haus-orden Albrecht des Bären" p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TYEp3N5O48EC&pg=PA18 18]
{{flagicon|Austrian Empire}} {{flagicon|Kingdom of Hungary|1872}} Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1873[http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm "A Szent István Rend tagjai"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222022855/http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm|date=22 December 2010}}
{{flag|Baden}}:Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden" [https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/1878736 pp. 62], [https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/1878750 76]
Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1881
Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1881
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bavaria}}: Knight of St. Hubert, 1908{{citation|title=Hof- und – Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern|year=1910|language=German|chapter=Königliche Orden|chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx3n9k&view=1up&seq=38&skin=2021|location=Munich|publisher=Druck and Verlag|page=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx3n9k&view=1up&seq=40&skin=2021 8]|via=hathitrust.org}}
{{flag|Belgium}}: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (military), 23 May 1866{{cite book|title=Almanach royal officiel: 1867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqBCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA52|year=1867|page=52|author1 = Belgien}}
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bulgaria}}:
Knight of Saints Cyril and Methodius, with Collar
Grand Cross of St. Alexander
{{flagicon|Saxe-Coburg and Gotha}} {{flagicon|Saxe-Altenburg}} {{flagicon|Saxe-Meiningen}} Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
{{flagcountry|French Third Republic}}: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
{{flagicon|Greece|royal}} Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Hawaii}}: Grand Cross of the Order of Kalākaua
{{flagicon image|Flagge Großherzogtum Hessen ohne Wappen.svg}} Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 5 May 1865[https://archive.org/details/hofundstaatshan00gergoog/page/n36 Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen] (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" p. 12
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}}: Knight of the Annunciation, 10 May 1875{{cite book|author=Italia : Ministero dell'interno|title=Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dnhcmSJ6FcC&pg=PP5|year=1898|publisher=Unione tipografico-editrice|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0dnhcmSJ6FcC&pg=PA54 54]}}
{{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}: Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, 18 May 1888{{cite book|author=刑部芳則|title=明治時代の勲章外交儀礼|url=http://meijiseitoku.org/pdf/f54-5.pdf|year=2017|publisher=明治聖徳記念学会紀要|language=ja|page=144}}
{{Flagicon image|Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg.svg}} Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore and in Diamonds, 28 May 1884{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/grossherzoglich-mecklenburg-strelitzscher-staatskalender-fur-1907/mode/2up |title=Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 1907 |chapter=Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen |location=Neustrelitz |publisher=Druck und Debit der Buchdruckerei von G. F. Spalding und Sohn |date=1907 |page=[https://archive.org/details/grossherzoglich-mecklenburg-strelitzscher-staatskalender-fur-1907/page/n65/mode/2up 14]|language=German }}
{{flagicon|Nassau}} Nassau Ducal Family: Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau
{{flag|Netherlands}}: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion
{{flag|Oldenburg}}: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown
{{flag|Ottoman Empire}}: Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class in Diamonds
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal}}:
Grand Cross of the Royal Military Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword
Grand Cross of Our Lady of Conception
Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1803-1892).svg}} Prussia:
Knight of the Black Eagle, 8 December 1866{{citation|title=Königlich Preussische Ordensliste|volume=1|chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021|page=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021 6]|lang=German|chapter=Schwarzer Adler-orden|location=Berlin|year=1886}}
Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Romania}}:
Grand Cross of the Star of Romania
Grand Cross of the Crown of Romania
{{flagcountry|Russian Empire|1858}}:
Knight of St. Andrew, 1864
Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
Knight of the White Eagle
Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class
Knight of St. Vladimir, 4th Class
{{flag|Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach}}: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1882[https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00185861/Staatshandbuch_Film_Nr_16_0245.tif Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906150133/https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00185861/Staatshandbuch_Film_Nr_16_0245.tif |date=6 September 2020 }} (1900), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 16
{{flagicon|Thailand|1855}} Siam:
Knight of the Order of the Royal House of Chakri, 15 July 1897{{cite journal |author=Royal Thai Government Gazette |author-link=Royal Thai Government Gazette |date=19 March 1898 |url=http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2441/051/559.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508043649/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2441/051/559.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 May 2019 |title=พระราชทานเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์ ที่ประเทศยุโรป|language=th |access-date=8 May 2019 }}
Grand Cross of the White Elephant
{{flagcountry|Restoration (Spain)}}: Knight of the Golden Fleece, 19 April 1883{{cite book|url=http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0000976079&search=&lang=es|chapter=Caballeros de la insigne orden del toisón de oro|title=Guía Oficial de España|date=1900|access-date=21 March 2019|page=167|language=es}}
{{flagicon|Sweden|1844}} {{flagicon|Norway|1844}} Sweden-Norway:
Grand Cross of St. Olav, with Collar, 18 July 1862{{citation|title=Norges Statskalender|year=1890|url=https://runeberg.org/norkal/1890/0355.html|via=runeberg.org|access-date=6 January 2018|language=sv|pages=593–594}}
Knight of the Seraphim, with Collar, 7 August 1862{{citation|title=Sveriges Statskalender|year=1905|url=https://runeberg.org/statskal/1905/0464.html|via=runeberg.org|access-date=6 January 2018|language=sv|page=440}}
Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 4 November 1871{{cite book|author=Anton Anjou|year=1900|title=Riddare af Konung Carl XIII:s orden: 1811–1900: biografiska anteckningar|chapter-url=http://www.archive.org/stream/riddareafkonung00anjogoog#page/n10/mode/1up|chapter=Utländske Riddare|page=[http://www.archive.org/stream/riddareafkonung00anjogoog#page/n186/mode/2up 178]|publisher=Eksjö, Eksjö tryckeri-aktiebolag|language=sv}}
Commander Grand Cross of the Sword

{{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}:
Honorary Grand Cross of the Bath (civil), 10 March 1888Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092537418#page/n303/mode/2up p. 212]
Stranger Knight Companion of the Garter, 21 July 1896Shaw, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092537418#page/n159/mode/2up p. 70]
Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 8 March 1901Shaw, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092537418#page/n515/mode/2up p. 424]
Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain, 9 August 1902Shaw, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092537418#page/n505/mode/2up p. 415]

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;Honorary military appointments

Colonel-in-Chief of The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), 1906 – 1914 (United Kingdom){{cite web|url=http://www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20reports/BUFFS%20DATES.pdf|title=The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)|publisher=Kent Fallen|access-date=30 December 2015}}
À la suite of the Imperial German NavyJustus Perthes, Almanach de Gotha (1912) [https://archive.org/details/almanachdegotha00unse_18/page/32 p. 33]
Honorary General of the Swedish Army, 1891 (Sweden-Norway){{citation|title=Svensk rikskalender|year=1909|page=155|url=https://runeberg.org/rikskal/1909/0239.html|via=runeberg.org|access-date=6 January 2018|language=sv}}

Issue

{{Further information|Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark#Children of Frederick VIII and Louise}}

class="wikitable" !Name!!Birth!!Death!!Spouse!!Children
Christian X of Denmark	26 September 1870	20 April 1947	Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	Frederik IX of Denmark Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
Haakon VII of Norway	3 August 1872	21 September 1957	Princess Maud of Wales	Olav V of Norway
Princess Louise of Denmark	17 February 1875	4 April 1906	Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe	Marie Louise, Princess Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe Stephanie, Princess of Bentheim and Steinfurt
Prince Harald of Denmark	8 October 1876	30 March 1949	Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg	Feodora, Princess Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe Caroline-Mathilde, Hereditary Princess of Denmark Alexandrine-Louise, Countess Luitpold of Castell-Castell Prince Gorm of Denmark Count Oluf of Rosenborg
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark	2 August 1878	12 March 1958	Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland	Margaretha, Princess Axel of Denmark Märtha, Crown Princess of Norway Astrid, Queen of the Belgians Prince Carl Bernadotte
Princess Thyra of Denmark	14 March 1880	2 November 1945	rowspan="2"\|unmarried	rowspan="2"\|none
Prince Gustav of Denmark	4 March 1887	5 October 1944
Princess Dagmar of Denmark	23 May 1890	11 October 1961	Jørgen Castenskiold	Carl Castenskiold Christian Castenskiold Jørgen Castenskiold Dagmar Larsen Christian Frederik Castenskiold

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Frederick VIII of Denmark

|2= 2. Christian IX of Denmark

|3= 3. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel

|4= 4. Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

|5= 5. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel

|6= 6. Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

|7= 7. Princess Charlotte of Denmark

|8= 8. Frederick Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

|9= 9. Countess Friederike von Schlieben

|10= 10. Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel

|11= 11. Princess Louise of Denmark

|12= 12. Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel

|13= 13. Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen

|14= 14. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark

|15= 15. Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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Notes

References

=Citations=

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External links

{{commons category|Frederik VIII of Denmark|Frederick VIII of Denmark}}

[http://kongehuset.dk/english/the-monarchy-in-denmark/The-Royal-Lineage The Royal Lineage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314224944/http://kongehuset.dk/english/the-monarchy-in-denmark/The-Royal-Lineage |date=14 March 2015 }} at the website of the Danish Monarchy
[http://www.kongernessamling.dk/en/amalienborg/person/frederik-viii/ Frederik VIII] at the website of the Royal Danish Collection at Amalienborg Palace
{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Frederick VIII. |short=x}}

{{s-hou|House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|3 June|1843|14 May|1912|House of Oldenburg|name=Frederick VIII}}