Heir To The Throne
In 1847, with the approval of the great powers of Europe, Christian was chosen by King Christian VIII to be heir presumptive after the extinction of the most senior line to the Danish throne, as the future Frederick VII seemed incapable of fathering children. A justification for this choice was his marriage to Louise of Hesse-Kassel, who—as a great-niece of Christian VII—was a closer heir to the throne than her husband.
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“‘Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th’ first.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
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For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
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