Count Oluf of Rosenborg
Count Oluf of Rosenborg, a former Danish prince, was the youngest child and son of Prince Harald of Denmark by his wife, Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
Early life
Oluf is a Danish form of Olaf.He gained the rank of Wing Commander in the Royal Danish Air Force and was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark.
Oluf renounced his rights to the throne and took the title Count of Rosenborg on 13 January 1948 when he married Annie Helene Dorrit Puggaard-Müller in Copenhagen on 4 February 1948, daughter of Gunnar Puggaard-Müller, Cand.jur., Head of Office in the Ministry of Finance in Bybjerggaard, Kikhavn, Hundested, and wife Gerda Annie Nielsen, paternal granddaughter of Johan Sophus Müller, Cand.theol., parish priest, and wife Alice Helene Puggaard and maternal granddaughter of Louis Nielsen, Major-General in the Royal Danish Army in Copenhagen, and wife Anny Jordan. They had two children and divorced on 20 January 1977. He married secondly Lis Wulff-Juergensen in 1982, they divorced in 1983, without issue.
Oluf and his first wife had two children:
- Ulrik Harald Gunnar Oluf, Count of Rosenborg, Director in Lyngby, married firstly Tove Waigner-Larsen, daughter of Axel Waigner-Larsen and wife Karen Dorothea Nielsen, in Copenhagen on 4 April 1981. They have two children. He married secondly Mrs. Judith Sandwick on 26 May 2012.
- * Katharina Dorthea Helene, Countess of Rosenborg.
- * Philip Oluf Axel Ulrik, Count of Rosenborg.
- Charlotte Helene Annie Dorrit, Countess of Rosenborg, married firstly Jens Philipsen on 12 November 1977. They divorced in 1978 without issue. She married secondly Torben Wulff af Gyldenfeldt at Lyngby on 11 April 1981. They have two children:
- * Johan Henrik Oluf Torben Wulff.
- * Beate Inge Dorrit Charlotte Wulff.