Count Ingolf of Rosenborg

Ingolf of Rosenborg ( born February 17, 1940 Castle Sorgenfri in Copenhagen) is the elder son and the middle child of Hereditary Prince Knud and Hereditary Princess Caroline Mathilde and thus the cousin of the reigning Queen Margrethe. His full first name is Ingolf Christian Frederik Knud Harald Gorm Gustav Viggo Valdemar Aage.

Position in the Danish royal house

At his birth was Ingolf, after his father Knud, were not included in the second place the succession, in the female offspring. As the Danish Basic Law regarding the succession in favor of the daughters of King Frederik was changed, he fell back to sixth place in the ranking of the heir to the throne, but kept still the title Prince of Denmark, the state him as the grandson of a monarch. When he did not marry befitting 1968, he was deprived of this and assigned to the throne created for not follow legitimate family members 1914 title Count of Rosenborg.

Family

Ingolf of Rosenborg has an older sister Elizabeth, who is listed as one of the siblings still in the Danish throne. Ingolfs younger brother Christian ( † 2013) was also excluded from the succession due unstandesgemäßer marriage and therefore has occupied the title of Count of Rosenborg. On January 13, 1968 Ingolf married the Civil Inge Terney, which was raised by the marriage to the Countess of Rosenborg. She died on 21 July 1996. On March 7, 1998 married Count Ingolf in Engtved the lawyer Sussie Hjorhøj, which has since also bears the title of Countess of Rosenborg. From the marriage no children were born. Ingolf has three nieces who are known as Countesses of Rosenborg in Denmark: Josephine, Camilla and Feodora of Rosenborg.

Activities

Count Ingolf has the good Egeland at Egtved in southern Jutland, which he leads as farm. As " compensation " for his demotion in the line of succession change 1953 he receives an annual appanage of 1.3 million kronor ( 2007).

As a member of the royal family, he mainly occurs as patron of various organizations, including Country Garde Foreningen and Sydslesvigsk udvalg af maj 5th, 1945.