Princess Thyra of Denmark, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Princess Thyra of Denmark
- Princess Thyra of Denmark, Danish pronunciation: ['t?y??a], (29 September 1853 – 26 February 1933, in Gmunden) was the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
- In 1878, she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover.
- As the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, she spent most of her life in exile with her husband in Austria. Thyra was the younger sister of Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, George I of Greece, Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and an elder sister of Prince Valdemar of Denmark.
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