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Count Oluf
Born(1923-03-10)10 March 1923
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died19 December 1990(1990-12-19) (aged 67)
Copenhagen, Denmark
SpouseAnnie Helene Dorrit Puggard-Müller
Lis Wulff-Juergensen
IssueUlrik Harald Gunnar Oluf, Count of Rosenborg
Charlotte Helene Annie Dorrit, Countess of Rosenborg
Names
Oluf Christian Carl Axel
HouseGlücksburg
FatherPrince Harald of Denmark
MotherPrincess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Oluf, Count of Rosenborg (Oluf Christian Carl Axel; 10 March 1923 – 19 December 1990), a former Danish prince, was the youngest child and son of Prince Harald of Denmark by his wife, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Early life

Oluf is a Danish form of Olaf.[1] Oluf renounced his rights to the throne in 1948 and took the title Count of Rosenborg when he married Annie Helene Dorrit Puggard-Müller (8 September 1926 - 14 May 2013) in Copenhagen on 4 February 1948. They had two children and divorced in 1977. He married secondly Lis Wolf-Jürgensen (b. 30 June 1935) in 1982, they divorced in 1983, without issue.

Oluf and his first wife had two children:

Ancestry

References

Citations

  1. ^ A Handbook of Scandinavian Names

Bibliography

  • Bramsen, Bo (1992). Huset Glücksborg. Europas svigerfader og hans efterslægt [The House of Glücksburg. The Father-in-law of Europe and his descendants] (in Danish) (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: Forlaget Forum. ISBN 87-553-1843-6.
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