Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg

Count Flemming Valdemar
Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg
Born (1922-03-09)9 March 1922
Stockholm, Sweden
Died 19 June 2002(2002-06-19) (aged 80)
Antibes, France
Spouse Alice Ruth Nielsen
Issue Count Axel
Count Birger
Count Carl Johan
Countess Désirée
Full name
Flemming Valdemar Carl Axel
House Glücksburg
Father Prince Axel of Denmark
Mother Princess Margaretha of Sweden

Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg (Danish: Prins Flemming Valdemar Carl Axel til Danmark and later Danish: Greve Flemming Valdemar af Rosenborg (9 March 1922, Stockholm – 19 June 2002, Antibes), was a former Danish prince.

Life

Prince Flemming was the youngest son of Prince Axel of Denmark (himself a son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark) and Princess Margaretha of Sweden.[1]

He renounced his rights to the throne in 1949 and took the title Count of Rosenborg. Flemming served in the Royal Danish Air Force and achieved the rank of Wing commander.

Marriage

He married in Copenhagen on 24 May 1949 Alice Ruth Nielsen (Copenhagen, b. 8 October 1924; d. 25 July 2010) and have four children, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren:

Titles and styles

Ancestry

Notes and references

  1. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, Burke's Royal Families of the World, vol.1: Europe & Latin America, p.70
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