Aage, Count of Rosenborg, was a Danish prince and officer of the French.
Background
He was born in Copenhagen the eldest child and son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and Princess Marie d"Orléans. Prince Aage carried on a passionate flirtation with Princess Marie Bonaparte, the wife of his cousin Prince George of Greece and Denmark, who had also enjoyed intimacies with his father.
Career
In neither case does it appear that Prince George objected, or felt obliged to give the matter any attention. In 1909 Prince Aage joined the Danish Army, and by 1913 had risen to the rank of lieutenant. During World War I he served as an observer in Italy for a year.
Returning home to Denmark he was promoted to captain.
A few days later, he renounced his place in the line of succession to the Danish throne, forfeiting his title of Prince of Denmark, and his style of Royal Highness. With the king"s authorisation, he assumed the title "Prince Aage, Greve af (Count of) Rosenborg" and the style of Highness on 5 February 1914.
Aage and Mathilde had one son before their divorce in 1939:
Valdemar Alexander Georg Luigi Maria, Count of Rosenborg (Turin, 3 January 1915 – Paris, 1 April 1995), married at Villefranche-sur-Mer, Nice, on 20 April 1949 Floria, Baronne d"Huart-Saint-Mauris (Paris, 10 August 1925 – Paris, 20 August 1995), (divorced from Charles Emmanuel, 3rd Prince and Count de Louisiana Rochefoucauld-Montbel, died 30 January 2000), without issue. In 1922, Aage received permission from the King, as required by Danish law, to leave the Danish army in order to join the French After negotiations between the Danish and the French governments Prince Aage entered the with the rank of captain.
He was sent to Morocco as part of the French involvement in the Rif War within a year of service.
In 1927 he published the book "A royal adventurer" in English about his time in the
Prince Aage died of pleurisy in Taza, Morocco, in 1940, and was buried in Sidi Belorussian Abbès, Algeria. Before the left Algeria in 1962, it was decided that the remains of three selected soldiers should be brought to the new headquarters in France. The remains of Prince Aage were selected as the representation of the foreign officers in the His remains now lie next to those of Général Rollet and légionnaire Zimmermann in the town of Puyloubier, France.