What Happened to Princess Thyra’s Secret Daughter? | Documentary Investigation

By Christmas of 1871, the Danish royal family was facing a scandal that could have damaged the reputation of their young dynasty. Princess Thyra’s two older sisters had already made extraordinary royal marriages. Alexandra had married the future King Edward VII of Britain, while Dagmar had married the future Emperor Alexander III of Russia. But their seventeen-year-old younger sister was hiding a secret that no royal family wanted the world to discover: she had fallen in love with an ordinary officer and secretly given birth to his child. The young mother and her baby were separated, and the story disappeared into the shadows of royal history for almost a century. In this video, we uncover the tragic love story of Princess Thyra and Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, examine the rumors surrounding their secret child, and investigate what may have happened to the mysterious baby the Danish royal family allegedly tried so hard to hide. Was the child really Maria Katharina Jørgensen? Are the photographs circulating online genuine? And could the truth still be hidden somewhere in the private archives of the Danish royal family? Join me as we investigate one of the most mysterious royal scandals of nineteenth-century Europe.