Princess Isabella of Denmark

by Susan Flantzer  © Unofficial Royalty 2019

Princess Isabella of Denmark; Photo: Danish Royal House © Hasse Nielsen

Princess Isabella of Denmark was born on April 21, 2007, at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the second of the four children and the elder of the two daughters of King Frederik X of Denmark and his Australian-born wife Queen Mary of Denmark, born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson. Princess Isabella was the first girl born into the Danish Royal Family since the birth in 1946 of her paternal great-aunt Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark who married King Constantine II of Greece.

Princess Isabella’s family: Princess Josephine, King Frederik X, Princess Isabella, Queen Mary, Prince Vincent, Prince Christian

Isabella has an elder brother and younger twin siblings:

Princess Isabella was christened at the Fredensborg Palace Chapel in Fredensborg, Denmark on July 1, 2007. She was given the names Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe.

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Princess Isabella with her parents, brother Christian, and godparents; Photo Credit – The Danish Monarchy, photographer Steen Brogaard

Isabella’s godparents were:

  • Queen Mathilde of Belgium, then the Duchess of Brabant, born Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz
  • Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, her first cousin once removed
  • Nadine Johnston, her parents’ friend
  • Christian Buchwald, her parents’ friend
  • Major Peter Heering, her parents’ friend
  • Marie Louise Skeel, her parents’ friend

Denmark changed its succession law in 2008 to absolute primogeniture where the succession passes to the eldest child of the sovereign regardless of gender. Males and females have equal succession rights. This means that King Frederik X’s second-born child Isabella is ahead of her younger brother Vincent in the line of succession to the Danish throne. With the abdication of her grandmother Queen Margrethe II and the accession of her father as King Frederik X on January 14, 2024, Isabella is second in the line of succession after her elder brother Crown Prince Christian.

Isabella on her first day of school in 2013; Credit – Hello

On August 13, 2013, Princess Isabella began to attend the same public school her older brother attended, Tranegårdskolen (link in Danish) in Hellerup, Gentofte Municipality, a Copenhagen suburban municipality. Isabella started her secondary studies at Ingrid Jespersens Gymnasieskole in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2022. She then started upper secondary school in August 2023, at Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup, Gentofte Municipality, a Copenhagen suburban municipality, the same school her father Frederik and her paternal uncle Prince Joachim had attended.

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Princess Isabella on her confirmation day

Isabella was confirmed in the Lutheran Evangelical Church at the Fredensborg Palace Chapel in Fredensborg, Denmark on April 30, 2022.

Left to right: Princess Isabella, Crown Prince Christian, King Frederik X, Queen Mary, Princess Josephine, and Prince Vincent on the balcony of Christiansborg Palace after the proclamation of King Frederik X as King of Denmark.

On January 14, 2024, the day of her father’s accession to the Danish throne Princess Isabella and her siblings Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine were created Knights of the Order of the Elephant. It is likely that the three new Knights of the Order of the Elephant will be presented with the Order of the Elephant’s insignias on their 18th birthdays. Isabella’s oldest brother, Crown Prince Christian was created a Knight of the Order of the Elephant on October 15, 2023, his 18th birthday.

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