Talk:Dagmar of Denmark
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Because a royal consort has no ordinal to distinguish them, once they are no longer the consort of a reigning monarch they are generally recorded in history books and on wiki by their pre-marital name. (eg, her sister is always described as Alexandra of Denmark, not Queen Alexandra. Similarly Alexandra of Denmark's daughter-in-law is known in history as Mary of Teck or May of Teck, not Queen Mary. Only national histories tend to use the consort name for their queens or princes consort. Wiki isn't a national history, it is a worldwide one so it follows world wide historical conventions, which are used in wiki's own naming conventions for consorts of monarchs. ÉÍREman 05:17 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)
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Her father became king of Denmark only after her marriage. At the time of her marriage, his father was HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg-Glucksburg, hereditary prince of Denmark (the last title, and HRH epithet granted by a recent Danish succession law settling the succession to him and the children of his marriage with Louise of Hesse after the possible extinction of the male line of the yet living Frederick VII and that of Frederick V). Thus, she was a Princess of S-H-S-Glucksburg and only after marriage, as soon as her father ascended, she received Denmark: she was then Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia, Princess of Denmark, etc. I think Denmark should not be used here as her pre-marital name, as it was not.
(The same actually is true to her sister Alexandra, Queen of United Kingdom.)
She was known with name Dagmar only a relative short period of her life, i.e only her youth (as Edward VIII was known as David when a boy and a teen). Most of her life she was known with the first of her christened names, i.e Maria. I believe she should be in Maria of Glucksburg or Maria of Denmark, or better, in Maria Fedorovna of Denmark or Maria Fedorovna of Glucksburg. 62.78.104.14 14:41, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)