Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark

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Knud
Hereditary Prince of Denmark
Knud in 1935
Born	(1900-07-27)27 July 1900 Sorgenfri Palace, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	14 June 1976(1976-06-14) (aged 75) Copenhagen, Denmark
Burial	Roskilde Cathedral
Spouse	Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark ​ ​ (m. 1933)​
Issue	Princess Elisabeth Count Ingolf of Rosenborg Count Christian of Rosenborg
Names Knud Christian Frederik Michael
House	Glücksburg
Father	Christian X of Denmark
Mother	Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (Knud Christian Frederik Michael; 27 July 1900 – 14 June 1976) was a member of the Danish royal family, the younger son and child of King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine.

From 1947 to 1953, he was heir presumptive to his older brother, King Frederik IX, and would have succeeded him as king following his death in January 1972 had it not been for a change in the Danish Act of Succession that replaced him with his niece, Queen Margrethe II. Later, Knud's two sons, Ingolf and Christian, were stripped of their titles of prince and removed from the line of succession by the new law because they had married commoners without asking permission to their uncle.