In her youth, Thyra had fallen in love with Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, a Lieutenant in the Cavalry, which resulted in a pregnancy. Her brother George I of Greece suggested that she have the baby in Athens to avoid scandal; the Danish press was told Thyra had been taken ill with jaundice. She gave birth to a girl, Maria (1871-1964), who was adopted by Rasmus and Anne Marie Jørgensen of Odense shortly after birth and renamed Kate. Marcher killed himself on 4 January 1872 after a confrontation with the King. Thyra never saw her daughter again.
In 1878 she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover. As the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, she spent most of her life in exile with her husband in Austria.
Thyra was the sister of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, King George I of Greece, and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia.
In her youth, Thyra had fallen in love with Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, a Lieutenant in the Cavalry, which resulted in a pregnancy. Her brother George I of Greece suggested that she have the baby in Athens to avoid scandal; the Danish press was told Thyra had been taken ill with jaundice. She gave birth to a girl, Maria (1871-1964), who was adopted by Rasmus and Anne Marie Jørgensen of Odense shortly after birth and renamed Kate. Marcher killed himself on 4 January 1872 after a confrontation with the King. Thyra never saw her daughter again.
In 1878 she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover. As the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, she spent most of her life in exile with her husband in Austria.
Thyra was the sister of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, King George I of Greece, and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia.
Family Members
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Maria Katharine Johnasine Regine Jørgensen Pløyen von Holstein
1871–1964
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Marie Louise von Cumberland
1879–1948
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Georg Wilhelm Christian Albert Edward Alexander Friedric von Hannover
1880–1912
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Alexandra Louise Marie von Hannover
1882–1963
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Olga von Hannover
1884–1958
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Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Peter Waldemar von Hannover
1885–1901
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Ernst August III. von Hannover
1887–1953
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