The House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, better known as the House of Glücksburg, is a collateral branch of the German House of Oldenburg. Its members have reigned at various times in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greece, and several northern German states.
The water-castle Glücksburg Castle—ancestral seat of the House of Glücksburg—is located in the "Schlossteich" (palace pond) in Glücksburg (Ostsee), a town located on the Anglia Peninsula in the (Southern) Schleswigian part of Schleswig-Holstein, in the very north of Germany, where the close-by Flensburg Firth (visible in the background) constitutes the border with Denmark.
Thirty-drachma coin of 1963, commemorating the centennial of the reign of the House of Glücksburg. Clockwise from the top: Paul, George II, Alexander, Constantine I and George I.
Image: Prins Vilhelm 1785 1831
Image: Caroline Bardua Herzog Karl von Schleswig Holstein Glücksburg
Sofía is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I. She is the first child of Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover.
Sofía and Juan Carlos at the wedding of Prince Karl of Hesse and Countess Yvonne Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár, The Hague, 1966
Sofía departing the United States in 1986