{"id":79535,"date":"2026-03-11T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=79535"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:27:09","slug":"profile-of-the-day-frederick-ix-of-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-frederick-ix-of-denmark-79535.html","title":{"rendered":"Profile of the Day: Frederick IX of Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Frederik_IX-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Frederik_IX-600x350.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Frederik_IX-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Frederik_IX-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Frederik_IX.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>Image: Frederick IX of Denmark \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 11, 1899, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Frederik-IX-King-of-Denmark\/4117966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Frederick IX of Denmark<\/a> was born. A highly popular monarch, Frederick IX reigned as the King of Denmark from 1947 until his death in 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frederick IX and his wife Ingrid had three daughters and no sons. In 1953, the Act of Succession was passed, which allowed a female to inherit the throne if there were no male heirs. Upon his death, Frederick was succeeded by his eldest daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Margrethe-II-Queen-of-Denmark\/6000000018714406121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Margrethe II<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore Frederick IX of Denmark&#8217;s family tree on Geni and share how you&#8217;re related to Danish royalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Frederik-IX-King-of-Denmark\/4117966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">View Frederick IX of Denmark&#8217;s Geni Profile<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> iframe{ border: 1px solid #999; } <\/style>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/family-tree\/index\/4117966?minimal=1\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Frederick IX of Denmark \/ Wikimedia Commons On March 11, 1899, Frederick IX of Denmark was born. A highly popular monarch, Frederick IX reigned as the King of Denmark from 1947 until his death in 1972. Frederick IX and his wife Ingrid had three daughters and no sons. In 1953, the Act of Succession was passed, which allowed a female to inherit the throne if there were no male heirs. Upon his death, Frederick&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-frederick-ix-of-denmark-79535.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":113340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5672,5743,5428,4932],"class_list":["post-79535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile-of-the-day","tag-denmark","tag-frederick-ix","tag-king","tag-monarchy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113343,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79535\/revisions\/113343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}