Princess Ingeborg of Denmark

Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise; 2 August 1878 – 12 March 1958), was a Princess of Sweden by marriage to Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland. Princess Ingeborg was a daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden, she grew up in Copenhagen as a Danish princess. In 1897, she was married to her mother's first cousin Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland, and spent the rest of her of life in Sweden as a member of the Swedish royal family. Her marriage produced four children, among whom were Märtha, Crown Princess of Norway and Astrid, Queen of the Belgians; she is the maternal grandmother of Kings Harald V of Norway, Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium, the matrilineal great-grandmother of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the paternal grand-aunt of Queens Margrethe II of Denmark and Anne-Marie of Greece, as well as the great-grand-aunt by marriage of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Early life Princess Ingeborg was born on 2 August 1878 at her parents' country residence, the Charlottenlund Palace north of Copenhagen, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King Christian IX. She was the second daughter and fifth child of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, and his wife Princess Louise of Sweden. Her father was the eldest son of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and her mother was the only daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway and Louise of the Netherlands. She was baptised with the names Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise, and was known as Princess Ingeborg.