One story may help to convey the moment: in 1709, there was a ball at the home of a Venetian noble in honor of the king of Denmark, Frederick IV.

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In 1925, Queen Alexandra, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and widow of King Edward VII of Britain, died.

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Petri-Dom was the seat of bishops for half a millennium, and the burial place of King Frederick I of Denmark, whose tomb was carved in the 1550s by the renowned Flemish sculptor Cornelis Floris de Vriendt.

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Two days after her birth, as we have seen, on 1 October 1766, her aunt Princess Caroline Matilda married King Christian VII of Denmark by proxy in London in the Great Drawing Room at St.

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