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King Christian X

King Christian X. BY Tyriek Baucom. King Christian.

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King Christian X

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  1. King Christian X BY Tyriek Baucom

  2. King Christian • Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Wilhelm was born on September 26, 1870 near Copenhagen to King Frederick VIII and his wife Princess Louise. Christian married 18-year-old Princess Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on April 26, 1898 in Cannes, France. Their first child, Frederick was born a year later and a second son, Knud, in 1900. Christian X succeeded to the throne of Denmark upon the death of his father in 1912. • King of Denmark was born in 1912 and died in 1947 and of Iceland until 1944

  3. Before long conflicts arose between Christian and his cabinet over the reunification with Denmark of the former Danish fiefdom of Schleswig which had been lost to Prussia. After the defeat of Germany in World War I the dispute was brought to plebiscite. Northern Schleswig voted to return to Denmark but Central Schleswig decided to remain with Germany. This caused some friction as many Danes felt that the city of Flensburg, at least, should return to Denmark due to its Danish majority. • Christian X agreed with the nationalists and ordered his prime minister, Carl Zahle, to include Fensburg in the reunification

  4. In April 1920, Christian instigated the Easter Crisis, perhaps the most decisive event in the evolution of the Danish monarchy in the 20th century.

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