Word: sonderburg
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Also plainly visible from the fjord is Norse King Haakon's long, plaster-white Kongelige Slot or royal palace. Among connoisseurs the Slot is recognized as Norway's architectural family skeleton. Cheaply and hastily thrown together when the present dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg was established in Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament...
...years earlier the present ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Gliicksburg had displaced the Oldenburgs upon the Danish throne. The Oldenburgs, notably Frederik VI, had been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Queen Alexandra, although usually described as "the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark," was not, curiously enough, born of the blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses...
King Christian is the third ruler of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, to which House the Great Powers of Europe assigned the throne of Denmark on the death of the 16th King of the House of Oldenburg, Frederik VII, who died without issue. The first King of the present house, Christian IX, ascended the throne in 1863. He had previously married a niece of King Christian VIII of Denmark...