Editing Frederick VIII of Denmark (section)

==Death==
On 14 May 1912, while on his return journey from a trip to [[Nice]] with his wife and four of his children, the king made a short stop in [[Hamburg]], staying at the Hotel Hamburger Hof under the pseudonym "Count Kronberg". That evening, Frederick—while incognito—went out for a stroll on the [[Jungfernstieg]], during which he became faint and collapsed on a park bench at [[Gänsemarkt]]. He was discovered by a police officer who took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead; his cause of death was announced as a heart attack. As Frederick was incognito at the time and had no papers on him, his body was brought to the local morgue, where he was identified by the hotel manager the next morning.

Rumors soon began to circulate about a possible scandal involving the king, as the place where he collapsed and died at was near a well-known [[brothel]]. The local police did not disclose details about the investigation, for fear of causing distress to the royal family.<ref name="Rohl">{{cite journal|author=Bernhard Röhl|date=10 March 2003|title=Der Tod kam mit dem Sex|url=https://taz.de/!803428/|page=22|journal=[[Die Tageszeitung]]|language=de}}</ref>

Frederick's body was transported via a special train to [[Travemünde]], after which he was brought back to Denmark by the royal yacht ''[[HDMY Dannebrog (1879)|Dannebrog]]''. After [[lying in state]] at the [[Christiansborg Palace Chapel|chapel]] of [[Christiansborg Palace]] in Copenhagen, he was interred in ''[[Christian IX's Chapel]]'' in [[Roskilde Cathedral]] on the island of [[Zealand]], the traditional burial site for [[List of Danish monarchs|Danish monarchs]] since the 15th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=frederik8|title=Frederik VIII|website=gravsted.dk|access-date=11 October 2022|language=da}}</ref>