Royals Using Incognito Titles and Names

[CyrilVladisla]

In 1912 King Frederik VIII of Denmark visited Hamburg, Germany.
He stayed at the Hotel Hamburger Hof.
He used the pseudonym Count Kronsberg.

 

[Prinsara]

Kronberg, not Kronsberg. He picked the wrong time to die when out alone.

 

[Curryong]

Yes, rather odd that he didn’t have even one equerry or aide de camp travelling with him. Of course the Danes did live, and travel about, as simply as possible, but still….!

King Edward VII used the nom de plume Duke of Lancaster when travelling around Europe when Prince of Wales, especially when visiting elite spa towns.

His mother ictoria on the other hand preferred the title Duchess of Balmoral.

 

[Prinsara]

Yes, rather odd that he didn’t have even one equerry or aide de camp travelling with him. Of course the Danes did live, and travel about, as simply as possible, but still….!

He had a number of staff with him (they tracked him down, eventually) and even his wife and younger children, by some accounts. They were just all at the hotel. He went for the walk by himself.

A number of people did seemingly notice when he was having his heart/stroke trouble and a couple of them tried to help him, but of course he was beyond speech and no one knew who he was. Public mortuary.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands used her title Countess of Buren when she travelled incognito.

 

[Somebody]

Calling yourself a countess will not help if you want to be in cognito. Willem-Alexander famously used 'van Buren' as surname when he participated in the Elfstedentocht (skating 200 km through 11 cities).

 

[Sister Morphine]

I believe when King Frederik X studied at Harvard for a year, he used the name "Frederik Henriksen."

 

[Prinsara]

Calling yourself a countess will not help if you want to be in cognito. Willem-Alexander famously used 'van Buren' as surname when he participated in the Elfstedentocht (skating 200 km through 11 cities).

Does that make them related to the US President of the same name?

 

[Somebody]

The title is based on Willem van Oranje's (also known as William the Silent) first wife: Anna van Egmont, countess of [gravin van] Buren (and of Lingen and of Leerdam; Lady of IJsselstein, of Borssele, of Grave, of Cranendonck, of Jaarsveld, of Kortgene, of Sint Maartensdijk, and of Odijk).

Anna van Egmont - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

County of Buren - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Prince Adalbert of Prussia and his wife Princess Adelheid moved to Switzerland. They adopted the names Count and Countess von Lingen.

 

[PhillyMonarchist]

Wonder what name Elisabeth is using in America

 

[duke of poliganc]

Empress Elizabeth “Sisi” used the title Countess of Hohenembs when traveling

 

[PhillyMonarchist]

Ingrid might be able to pass off as an American if she go to college in the states because of how long her American accent is

 

[blooms_rulers]

Ingrid might be able to pass off as an American if she go to college in the states because of how long her American accent is

Where have you heard her speaking English? Is there a video you could link?

 

[doro]

Queen Margrethe used an pseudonym too, when she translated the Lord of the Rings into Danish.

 

[PhillyMonarchist]

Where have you heard her speaking English? Is there a video you could link?

At about 0:15 she could used an American name as her pseudonym

 

[blooms_rulers]

At about 0:15 she could used an American name as her pseudonym

Thanks!

I wonder whether her parents speak English with an American accent. I know when they first married, there were comments made on some royal boards that MM was better in English than Haakon.

 

[Toledo]

Ingrid has a beautiful international English accent but if she decides to go to college in the USA it will become imprinted with the regional accent of the state she would be living in. Even in states with close proximity the accents depend on who populated the area the most. The Boston accent doesn't sound anything like the New York, New Jersey, the southern states or the famously called 'Valley Girl' California accent (think if the Kardashians).

 

[Prinsara]

I wonder whether her parents speak English with an American accent.

Haakon very definitely does not have an American accent.

(ML does.) I don’t know about MM.

Ingrid has a beautiful international English accent

Ingrid has a fairly standard American one, unlike Bestefar Harald who fascinatingly still speaks like it’s the 1940s.

But there is an entire other thread for what royals speak and how they speak it.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Marie Feodorovna of Russia toured Europe in 1781 and 1782. They traveled incognito as the Count and Countess of the North.