Princess Josephine of Denmark

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Princess Josephine

| title = Countess of Monpezat

| image = The Danish Royal Family at Amalienborg - Princess Josephine.jpg

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| caption = Josephine in 2023

| full name = Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda

| father = Frederik X

| mother = Mary Donaldson

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|2011|1|8}}

| birth_place = Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

}}

Princess Josephine of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat,[http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?id=28791 Kongehuset – Aktuelt – Nyheder] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419181320/http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?id=28791 |date=19 April 2011 }}. Kongehuset.dk (21 May 2010). Retrieved on 15 April 2011. {{post-nominals|post-noms=RE}} (Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda; born 8 January 2011) is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the fourth and youngest child of King Frederik X and Queen Mary, and the seventh grandchild of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik. She is the twin sister of Prince Vincent.

Josephine is fourth in line to the Danish throne, after her older siblings, Crown Prince Christian and Princess Isabella, and her elder twin brother, Prince Vincent.

Birth and christening

File:Kongelige tvillinger til tronfølgen i Danmark markeres med kanonsaltut fra Kronborg den 8. januar 2011.jpg from Kronborg Castle at the occasion of the birth of Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine on 8 January 2011]]

Josephine was born on 8 January 2011 at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, at 10:56 am local time, 26 minutes after her twin brother.[http://www.kronprinsparret.dk/86d2774 TRH The Crown Prince Couple – A Prince and a Princess are born] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111041058/http://www.kronprinsparret.dk/86d2774 |date=11 January 2011 }}. Kronprinsparret.dk (8 January 2011). Retrieved on 15 April 2011.[http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/live/kongeligetvillinger/ TV 2 Nyhederne – Live] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317074601/http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/live/kongeligetvillinger/ |date=17 March 2011 }}. Nyhederne.tv2.dk. Retrieved on 15 April 2011. At noon on 8 January, a 21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen Naval Base in the Port of Copenhagen and from Kronborg Castle in Elsinore in North Zealand to mark the arrival of the two royal children.{{cite web|url=https://www.artilleriet.dk/artikel/4195-1-DAA-1-Danske-Artilleriafdeling--royale-tvillinger-faar-kort-kanon-salut.htm|title=Royale tvillinger får kort kanonsalut|trans-title=Royal twins receive short cannon salute|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Netavisen Artilleriet.dk|language=da}}

File:Vincent and Josephine.jpg

Josephine and Vincent were baptized on 14 April 2011 at the Church of Holmen in central Copenhagen by the royal confessor, the Bishop of Copenhagen Erik Norman Svendsen.{{cite web | url=http://kongehuset.dk/menu/materiale/barnedab-i-holmens-kirke-den-14-april-2011 | title=Barnedåb i Holmens Kirke den 14. april 2011 | trans-title=Baptism in the Church of Holmen on 14 April 2011 | publisher=Monarchy of Denmark | access-date=12 January 2016 | language=da | archive-date=22 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322094455/http://kongehuset.dk/menu/materiale/barnedab-i-holmens-kirke-den-14-april-2011 | url-status=dead }} The twins were baptised at the royal baptismal font which has been used for the baptism of royal children in Denmark since 1671.{{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=13|language=da}} Princess Josephine wore a christening gown found among her great-grandmother Queen Ingrid's belongings, making her the first child of a future Danish monarch not to wear the Danish royal family's traditional christening gown (which was worn by her twin brother) since it was taken into use in 1870.{{cite news|url=https://www.kongehuset.dk/menu/materiale/barnedab-14-april-2011/dabskjolerne|title=Dåbskjolerne|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Danish royal family|access-date=25 April 2021|archive-date=3 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603220629/https://www.kongehuset.dk/menu/materiale/barnedab-14-april-2011/dabskjolerne|url-status=dead}} The Princess's name was announced as Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda. Her third name, Ivalo, is Greenlandic. It stems from the Qaanaaq region where her father patrolled with the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol and means "sinew".{{cite news|url=https://knr.gl/da/nyheder/hvad-betyder-minik-og-ivalo|title=Hvad betyder Minik og Ivalo?|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|access-date=25 April 2021}} Her godparents are her paternal aunt, Princess Marie of Denmark; her maternal aunt, Patricia Bailey; as well as her parents' friends Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, Count Bendt Wedell, Birgitte Handwerk and Josephine Rechner.{{cite news|url=http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?id=28880|title=Godfathers and Godmothers to the Prince and Princess|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Kronprinsparret.dk|access-date=14 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929125501/http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?id=28880|archive-date=29 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

Public appearances and education

On 3 August 2014, during the family's official visit to Greenland, Josephine, her parents and siblings, took part in a tree planting in Qaqortoq's new poplar grove, Ivalos og Miniks Poppellund, named after Josephine and her brother who are known by their Greenlandic middle names in Greenland.{{cite news|url=http://kongehuset.dk/Menu/foto--video/video-traplantning-i-qaqortoq|title=TRÆPLANTNING I QAQORTOQ|date=3 August 2014|publisher=Kongehuset.dk|access-date=6 August 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://sermitsiaq.ag/billedgalleri-qaqortoq-kronprinsfamilien-fik-traeer|title=Billedgalleri fra Qaqortoq: Kronprinsfamilien fik træer|date=3 August 2014|publisher=sermitsiaq.ag|access-date=6 August 2014}}

On 15 August 2017, Josephine and her twin brother started school at Tranegårdsskolen in Gentofte – the same public school as her older siblings. In August 2023, the Royal House announced that Josephine would be starting at Kildegård Privatskole in Hellerup in September 2023.{{cite web |title=HRH Princess Josephine begins at new school |url=https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/news/hrh-princess-josephine-begins-at-new-school |website=Danish Royal House |access-date=16 August 2023}} The school was founded by Countess Thusnelda Moltke in 1870.{{cite web |title=Historie |url=https://kildegaard.dk/om-kildegaard/historie/ |website=Kildegaard Privatskole |access-date=16 August 2023}}

Titles, styles, and honours

File:Royal Monogram of Princess Josephine of Denmark.svg

Josephine is styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat.{{cite web|url=http://kongehuset.dk/english/the-royal-house/Crown-Prince-Couple/HRH-Princess-Josephine|publisher=Danish Royal Court|title=Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-date=20 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220195415/http://kongehuset.dk/english/the-royal-house/Crown-Prince-Couple/HRH-Princess-Josephine|url-status=dead}}

=Honours=

{{see also|List of honours of the Danish Royal Family by country}}

==National honours==

===Orders and appointments===

60px Knight of the Order of the Elephant (14 January 2024) (R.E.){{Cite web|url=https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/news/the-king-and-the-queen%E2%80%99s-three-youngest-children-become-knights-of-the-order-of-the-elephant|title=The King and Queen's three youngest children become Knights of the Order of the Elephant|website=kongehuset.dk|date=14 January 2024|access-date=14 January 2024}}

=====Medals and decorations=====

60px Queen Margrethe II's Ruby Jubilee Medal (14 January 2012) {{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
60px Queen Margrethe II's 75th Birthday Medal (16 April 2015) {{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik's Golden Wedding Anniversary Medal (10 June 2017){{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
60px Prince Henrik's Memorial Medal (11 June 2018){{cite web |title=Mindemedaille for Prins Henrik|url=https://www.kongehuset.dk/nyheder/mindemedaille-for-prins-henrik|website=Kongehuset.dk |access-date=15 October 2023 |date=11 June 2018 |language=Danish|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231016092513/https://www.kongehuset.dk/nyheder/mindemedaille-for-prins-henrik|archive-date=16 October 2023 |url-status=live|trans-title=Prince Henrik's Memorial Medal|quote=Hendes Majestæt Dronningen har i dag den 11. juni 2018 tildelt en mindemedaille for Prins Henrik til den kongelige familie, hoffets medarbejdere og personer, der har bistået på særlig vis ved Prinsens sygdom, død og bisættelse. [Her Majesty the Queen has today, 11 June 2018, awarded Prince Henrik's Memorial Medal to the royal family, court employees and persons who have assisted in a special way during the Prince's illness, death and funeral.]}}
60px Queen Margrethe II's 80th Birthday Medal (16 April 2020) {{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
60px Queen Margrethe II's Golden Jubilee Medal (14 January 2022){{cite web |title=Commemorative medal in connection with the 50th anniversary of HM The Queen's accession to the throne|url=https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/news/commemorative-medal-in-connection-with-the-50th-anniversary-of-hm-the-queen%E2%80%99s-accession-to-the-throne|website=Kongehuset.dk |access-date=15 October 2023 |date=14 January 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231016091641/https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/news/commemorative-medal-in-connection-with-the-50th-anniversary-of-hm-the-queen%E2%80%99s-accession-to-the-throne|archive-date=16 October 2023 |url-status=live|quote=... the Royal Family, the Court’s employees and other individuals have received the Commemorative Medal in connection with the 50th anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen’s accession to the throne.}}