Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway
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Frederick (Danish: Frederik) (11 October 1753, Copenhagen – 7 December 1805, Copenhagen), was a Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway. He was the surviving son of the second marriage of King Frederick V of Denmark with Juliana Maria of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. He is said to have been physically disabled.
He married Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in Copenhagen on 21 October 1774. She was the Princess and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
His half-brother King Christian VII of Denmark having gone insane, and divorced from his wife (then exiled) Queen Caroline Mathilde, Prince Frederick was designated as Regent of Denmark in 1772, when 18 years old. His regency was mostly nominal, the power being held by his mother Queen Juliane Marie, and minister Ove Høegh-Guldberg.
He acted as regent until the coup of 1784, when Crown Prince Frederick (the future Frederick VI of Denmark), the then 16-year-old son of King Christian, took power and regency.
Prince Frederick had the following children:
- Princess Juliana Marie (Christiansborg Palace, 2 May 1784 – Copenhagen, 28 October 1784)
- Hereditary Prince Christian Frederick (1786–1848), 1814–1814 King of Norway and later, 1839–49 King of Denmark (Christian VIII). He had an only child, the future Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863) with whom the line went extinct.
- Princess Juliana Sophie (Copenhagen, 18 February 1788 – Copenhagen, 9 May 1850), married at Frederiksborg on 22 August 1812 Wilhelm Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (Barchfeld, 10 August 1786 – Copenhagen, 30 November 1834), and had issue
- Louise Charlotte (1789–1864), married William, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel); also the maternal grandmother of Frederick VIII of Denmark, whose son Carl became Haakon VII of Norway.
- Hereditary Prince Frederik (1792–1863), childless
