Princess Isabella of Denmark was born on 21 April 2007 as the daughter of the then Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. She was their second child and has an older brother, Prince Christian, and two younger siblings, twins Vincent and Josephine.
Due to the introduction of absolute primogeniture in 2009, she kept her place in the line of succession after the subsequent birth of a younger brother.
Isabella was christened in Fredensborg Palace Chapel on 1 July 2007, and her godparents were her father’s first cousin, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark; Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering and Marie Louise Skeel. Her first name is in honour of the Danish Queen Isabella of Austria. Isabella was confirmed in 2022.
She began her official schooling in the 0 class at Tranegårdskolen on 3 August 2013. A 12-week stay at an international school was planned in 2020 but this was cancelled due to the pandemic. She began in the th form at Ingrid Jespersens Gymnasieskole in Copenhagen in 2022 and moved to the 1.g at Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup in 2023.
Her first official engagement, the baptism of the M/F Prinsesse Isabella ferry, took place on 6 June 2015.
Upon her father’s accession as King, she became second in the line of succession.
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