THE ROYAL FAMILY His Majesty King CHRISTIAN X of Denmark and Iceland, born September 26, 1870; first son of King Frederik VIII, born Her Majesty Queen ALEXANDRINE, born December 24, 1879, daughter of the late Grand Duke Friedrich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. SONS: (1) His Royal Highness Crown-prince FREDERIK, born March 11, 1899. (2) His Royal Highness Prince KNUD, born July 27, 1900. BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE KING: (1) H.M. King HAAKON VII of Norway, born August 3, 1872, married Her Majesty Queen MAUD (née Princess of Great Britain & Ireland, daughter of King Edward VII) July 22, 1896. (2) H. R. H. Prince HARALD, born October 8, 1876, married April 28, 1909, H. R. H. Princess HELENA (née Princess of Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Glücksborg). Family: (1) H. H. Princess FEODORA, b. /, 1910. (2) H. H. Princess CAROLINE-MATHILDE, b. 27/49 1912. (3) H. H. Princess ALEXANDRINE-LOUISE, b. 1914. (4) H. H. Prince GORM, b. 24/2, 1919. (5) H. H. Prince OLUF, b. 10/3, 1923. 12/12, (3) H. R. H. Princess INGEBORG of Sweden, born August 2, 1878, married August 27, 1897, to His Royal Highness Prince CARL of Sweden. (4) H. R. H. Princess THYRA, born March 14, 1880. (5) H. R. H. Prince GUSTAV, born March 4, 1887. (6) DAGMAR, born May 23, 1890, married November 23, 1922, to Jørgen Castenskiold, Master of the Hounds & Gentleman in Waiting. BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE LATE KING: (1) † H. M. Dowager-Queen ALEXANDRA of Great Britain & Ireland (died 1925). (2) † H. M. King GEORGE I of Greece (died 1913). (3) H. M. Dowager-Empress DAGMAR of Russia. (4) H. R. H. Princess THYRA, Duchess of Cumberland. (5) H. R. H. Prince VALDEMAR, born October 27, 1858, married October 22, 1885, to H. R. H. Princess MARIE (née Princess of Orléans, died 1909). Family: (1) H. H. Prince AAGE, Count of Rosenborg, b. June (2) H.R.H. Prince AXEL, b. Aug. 12, 1888, married May (4) H. H. Prince VIGGO, Count of Rosenborg, b. Dec. (5) H. R. H. Princess MARGRETHE, born Sept. 17, 1895, married June 9, 1921, to H. R. H. Prince Renatus of Bourbon-Parma. LAND AND PEOPLE THE CONFIGURATION AND SIZE OF DENMARK The Kingdom of Denmark comprises an area of about 44,400 square kilometres, this figure including the small group of islands, the Faroe Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, which have an area of about 1,400 square kilometres. Denmark proper thus covers an area of very nearly 43,000 square kilometres. In proportion to its small surface area, the country is very extensive, stretching from the South to the North from Lat. 54° 33' 31" N. (Gedserodde) to Lat. 57° 44' 55" (The Scaw), and from East to West from Long. 15° 11' 59" E. of Greenwich (Aerteholmene in the Baltic) to Long. 8° 4' 36" E. (Blaavandshuk on the North Sea Coast). That there is not a correspondingly larger area is due to the peculiar configuration of the country; taking it as a whole, the country is made up of two parts: 1) the peninsula of Jutland, which is attached to the Continent of Europe, of about 30,000 square kilometres, and 2) the islands in the waters between Jutland and Sweden, whose number attains to 525 with a total area of a good 13,000 square kilometres. Of these 252 islands, however, only about a hundred are inhabited. The biggest of the islands are Zealand, with 7,043 square kilometres, Funen, with 2,990, Lolland (1,244), Bornholm (587), Falster (514), and Møen (217). SURFACE AND SOIL One can most easily form an idea of the nature of the surface and soil of Denmark by considering the manner in which the country came into existence. From a geological point of view, Denmark is a young country, as the surface apart from various formations of the present age, such as bogs, marshes, and dunes consists of the stratifications of the glacial period. The substratum under these originates from the two immediately prece |