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Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

1879 - 1952

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Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Alexandrine Auguste; 24 December 1879 – 28 December 1952) was Queen of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, as well as Queen of Iceland from 1918 to 1944 as the spouse of King Christian X. Alexandrine was a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. She was brought up with simplicity, and her early life was peripatetic, spending summers in Mecklenburg and the rest of the year in the south of France. She married Prince Christian of Denmark in 1898. Alexandrine became crown princess in 1906 and queen consort of Denmark in 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is the 209th most popular companion (down from 121st in 2019), the 761st most popular biography from Germany (down from 497th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Companion.

The alexandrine of mecklenburg-schwerin is most famous for being the only surviving member of the house of mecklenburg-schwerin.

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Among companions, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 209 out of 784. Before her are Joan the Lame, Marie Henriette of Austria, Geraldine of Albania, Clarice Orsini, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Philippa of Lancaster. After her are Eleanor of Provence, María Isabella of Spain, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Hugh Despenser the younger, Gülfem Hatun, and Maria Feodorovna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 24. Before her are Francis Picabia, Ottorino Respighi, Ramana Maharshi, An Jung-geun, Italo Gariboldi, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. After her are Léon Jouhaux, Francis Peyton Rous, Chen Duxiu, Shunroku Hata, Pál Teleki, and Knud Rasmussen. Among people deceased in 1952, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 22. Before her are Paramahansa Yogananda, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Ferenc Molnár, Kiichiro Toyoda, Jürgen Stroop, and Charles Maurras. After her are Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, George Santayana, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Charles Scott Sherrington, Hattie McDaniel, and Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 761 out of 7,253. Before her are Albert, King of Sweden (1340), William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852), Bruno Walter (1876), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Michael Praetorius (1571), and Jürgen Klinsmann (1964). After her are Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Berti Vogts (1946), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), George V of Hanover (1819), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), and Werner Mölders (1913).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 31. Before her are Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861), and Matilda of Ringelheim (894). After her are Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1767), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), and Sophie of Württemberg (1818).

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