Editing Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (section)

==Birth and family==
[[File:Amalienborg cph.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|230px|Frederik VIII's Palace at [[Amalienborg]], Princess Anne-Marie's birthplace]]

Princess Anne-Marie was born on 30 August 1946 in [[Frederik VIII's Palace]], an 18th-century [[palace]] which forms part of the [[Amalienborg Palace]] complex in central [[Copenhagen]]. She was the third and last daughter and child of [[Frederik IX of Denmark|Crown Prince Frederik]] and [[Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark]]. Her father was the eldest son of [[Christian X of Denmark]] and [[Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]; her mother, born a [[princess of Sweden]], was the only daughter of the [[Gustaf VI Adolf|Crown Prince of Sweden]] (later King Gustaf VI Adolf) and [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]]. At birth, Anne-Marie had two elder sisters: [[Margrethe II|Princess Margrethe]] (later [[queen of Denmark]]) and [[Princess Benedikte]] (who became [[princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]).<ref name="burkeI"/>

Anne-Marie was [[baptised]] on 9 October 1946 in the [[Holmen Church]] in Copenhagen. Her godparents were her paternal grandparents, King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark; her maternal grandfather, [[Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden]]; her maternal uncle [[Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland]]; her paternal great-uncle [[King Haakon VII of Norway]]; her paternal great-aunt [[Princess Dagmar of Denmark]]; her grandfather's cousin [[Prince George of Greece and Denmark]]; her father's cousin, [[Crown Princess Märtha of Norway]]; [[Queen Mary of the United Kingdom]]; and [[Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands]].<ref>[http://www.sa.dk/composite-2686.htm Prinsesse Anne-Maries fødsel og dåb] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203085229/http://www.sa.dk/composite-2686.htm |date=3 February 2012 }} – Website of the [[Danish National Archives]].</ref>

Anne-Marie is a great-great-granddaughter of both [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Christian IX of Denmark]]. Therefore, she is related to many other members of European royalty, such as her future husband Constantine II, who is also a great-great-grandchild of both Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark. Moreover, Anne-Marie is the aunt by marriage of [[Felipe VI]] of Spain and the first cousin of [[Carl XVI Gustaf]] of Sweden.