Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (December 24, 1879- December 28, 1952) was the consort of King Christian X of Denmark.

She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the city of Schwerin. Her father was the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; her mother was the Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

Princess Alexandrine married Crown Prince Christian of Denmark on April 26, 1898, in Cannes, France, when she was 18 years old. She died in Copenhagen as Dowager Queen of Denmark in 1952 and is interred next to her husband in Roskilde Cathedral.

The only brother of Queen Alexandrine was Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born April 9, 1882, in Palermo, Italy; married Princess Alexandra of Hanover, in Gmuenden, Austria, on June 7, 1904; died November 17, 1945, in Flensburg, Germany).

The only sister of Queen Alexandrine was the Duchess Cecile Auguste Marie (born September 20, 1886, in Schwerin; married (last)Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, in Berlin, on June 6, 1905; died May 6, 1954, in Kissingen, Germany).

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