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Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg

Yellow Palace, 10 Jun 1887 – Taza, 29 Feb 1940

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Facts and their sources

A life in time

  1. 10 Jun 1887

    Born in Yellow Palace

  2. 29 Feb 1940

    Dies in Taza, aged 52

Family

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Parents

Partner

During his lifetime

He lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Yellow Palace.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1880s · Prince is born in Yellow Palace

What people wore

Wealth Displayed on Læsø Blouses

Wealthy women on Læsø Island wore blouses adorned with gilded metal plates, which functioned as a way to store and pass down family capital.

Getting around

Travel across frozen waters

In severe winters, when the Great Belt froze, mail and passengers were transported in large boats that men pulled across the ice.

At the table

Working-class diet of bread and fat

Working-class families often economized by subsisting on bread spread with fat, known as fedtemadder, when they could not afford warm meals.

Europe divides Africa. At the Berlin Conference, European powers set the rules for carving up Africa; within thirty years almost all of it was colonised.In Africa · 1884–1885

Europe divides Africa. At the Berlin Conference, European powers set the rules for carving up Africa; within thirty years almost all of it was colonised.

Adalbert von Roessler · public domain

Music

Weddings and musician payment in 19th-century Denmark

In the late 19th century, weddings were the most important festive occasions, often lasting two to three days with dancing until dawn. Guests might pay the musicians 3 to 6 marks per plate during these celebrations.

Daily life

Low wages for domestic help

A maidservant, who might serve a family faithfully for a lifetime, earned only 6–8 kroner per month.

What it cost

Earnings from making fire-lighters

A mother could earn 25 øre by making 500 small fire-lighters, which was just enough to buy a quarter of a loaf of rye bread and 2 kg of fat.