It is to-day twenty-five years since the present King of Deni christian IX, ascended the Throne. He was born at the castle of Gettorp in Schleswig in 1818 as Prince of Gltickuburg and was partly educated at Copenhagen, where he entered the military profession and became a Captain in the Royal Horse Guard; married in 1848 his cousin Princess Lot daughter of the Land, of Hesse-Cassel,. and sister to the Danish King Christian VIII. When Prince Christian of Gliicksburg was born, nobody ever expected him to be: come a King, although he was a distant relation to the Danish Royal family, and it was only the result of many converging circum stances, which made him the elected, when this question had to be decided, King Frederick VII. being without issue. -It was however not without a rather hot'gon-test in the Danish Chambers, that Prince Christian in, 1853 became the heir apparent and assumed the title of Prince of Denmark; it was due principally to the near relationship of the Princess Louise to the reigning King, and to hisreniainingtrue to the Danish Government during the insurrection: in Schleswig and Holstein in 1848-50, in which he personally fought in the Danish army and against nearly all his family, his brothers included, who had turned traitors the Danish crown.
It was at a very difficult time that he was called upon to assume the Government, not the least because his predecessor Frederick VIL. (dit ' Folkekiir" beloved of the people) had been and still is the most popular of any of the Kings of Denmark. A chai in the Constitution had just been carried by the Chambers and required: the King's signature, it had even been ascertained. that this change.was approved by Prussia and then the sudden leath of the old King upset everything. The change of rulers seemed to be an
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