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This CdV shows Princess Christian of Denmark, the mother of the Princess of Wales (born Alexandra of Denmark) and Princess Dagmar (later Empress of Russia). She was born Louise of Hesse-Kassel in 1817, and married her second cousin Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksberg in Copenhagen on 26 May 1842. She was then known as Princess Christian until her husband succeeded to the Danish throne on 15 November 1863, when she became Queen Louise of Denmark. This photograph was taken just a month before the succession.
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