Count Flemming of Rosenborg

Count Flemming Valdemar Carl Axel of Rosenborg (9 March 1922 – 19 June 2002) was a former Danish prince.

Life
Prince Flemming was the youngest son and child of Prince Axel of Denmark (himself a son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark) and Princess Margaretha of Sweden.

He renounced his rights to the throne and his princely title and style on 14 June 1949 and took the title of Count of Rosenborg. He served in the Royal Danish Navy as a Commander War Captain. He was the Director and BFM at Kalk- & Mørtelværkerne A/S and A/S Carl Nielsen, Sand- & Gruskompagni (Calkas) in Copenhagen.

Count Flemming of Rosenborg had four children and ten grandchildren.

Marriage
He married Alice Ruth Kai Nielsen (Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 8 October 1924 – 25 July 2010), daughter of Kai Nielsen (Copenhagen, 5 October 1893 - 28 June 1967), Administrator Director of A/S Carl Nielsen, Sand- & Gruskompagni, A/S Kalk- & Mørtelværkerne and H. Poulsen & Co. A/S (Calkas) in Brinken, Springforbi, and his wife Edith Fischer (31 May 1896 - 1978), paternal granddaughter of Carl Nielsen (1855 - 1929), Contractor, Manufacturer, Founder and Owner of A/S Carl Nielsen, Sten- & Gruskompagni (Calkas) in Copenhagen, and wife, and maternal granddaughter of Otto Fischer, Overpass Master in the Danish State Railways (DSB), and wife Jenny ..., in Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, on 24 May 1949, and had four children:


 * Count Valdemar Georg Flemming Kai Axel of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen 24 January 1950), Civil Economist H.A., Administrator Director of Calkas A/S, he married Jane Glarborg (b. Hörup, 17 September 1950) in Oxholm Gods, Aabybro, on 24 May 1975 and divorced in 1986 or 1987, daughter of Major Steen Glarborg and wife Kirsten Vibeke Hansen; they had two children. He married Jutta Beck (b. Copenhagen, 9 November 1958), Civil Economist, Cand.merc.aud., Certified Public Accountant, Director of Finance and Economics in ALB-Abello A/S (CHL) in Rungsted Kyst, daughter of Villy Beck, Cand.agro., Head of Department, and wife Tove Kohl-Lauritzen, Clerk, in Høsterkøb Kirke, Høsterkøb, on 10 December 1988; they had two children.
 * Countess Julie of Rosenborg (b. Ålborg, 10 May 1977)
 * Count Carl Johan of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 15 November 1979), married in Oxholm on 4 September 2010 Sidsel Lykke-Nielsen (b. 11 February 1980), of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Hillerød University Hospital, Hillerød, daughter of Steen Lykke-Nielsen, of the Department of Agroecology of Aarhus University,  and wife Countess Christiane (Gugi) Scheel (Messiaskirken Hellerup, Sokkelund, Copenhagen, 15 July 1939); they had two children.
 * Countess Dagmar of Rosenborg (b. 2011)
 * Count Valdemar of Rosenborg (b. 2014)
 * Countess Désirée Christine of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 25 December 1990), Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company
 * Count Alexander Flemming of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 4 November 1993)
 * Count Birger Valdemar Georg Flemming Kai Axel of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 24 January 1950), Landowner of Marstal, he married Minna Benedicta Tillisch (b. Helleruplund, 3 July 1949) in Skovshoved Kirke, Skovshoved, on 19 October 1974, daughter of Niels Benedict Tillisch (Copenhagen, 26 September 1912 - ), Branch Manager in Gentofte, and wife (m. Skjødstrup, 1 December 1945) Countess Dagmar Sophie Elé Knuth af Christiansdal (18 March 1915 - 20 June 1975), enrolled in the Noble Diocese of Vallø, and had one daughter. He divorced in 1978 and married secondly Susanne Kristensen (Copenhagen, 13 February 1951 - Thisted, 22 October 1999) in Taarbæk on 28 November 1981. They divorced in 1990. He married thirdly Lynne Denise Sharpe (b. Sheffield, 10 June 1953) at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, on 4 March 2000.
 * Countess Benedikte Margaretha Dagmar of Rosenborg (b. Feroskobing, 20 July 1975), enrolled in the Noble Diocese of Vallø
 * Count Carl Johan Valdemar Georg Flemming Kai Axel of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 30 May 1952), he married Dorrit Zander-Olsen (Copenhagen, 23 October 1956 - 17 October 2010) in Skovshoved Kirke, Skovshoved, on 3 September 1982 and divorced in 1986, daughter of Paul Zander-Olsen and wife Anne Berthe Törning or Terning; they had one daughter. He married Colette Vivian Cabral (b. New York, 9 May 1967) in Venice on 19 November 1994 and divorced in 2004; they had one daughter. He married Lisa Jeanne Stollar on 20 September 2013 and they divorced in 2016. He married Vanessa Wilson, née Barker in 2023.
 * Countess Caroline of Rosenborg (b. Gentofte, 30 March 1984), Design Director at CARO Editions, Founder of Cari Earth and Caroline af Rosenborg
 * Countess Josephine Coco of Rosenborg (b. London, 24 June 1999)
 * Countess Désirée Märtha Ingeborg of Rosenborg (b. Copenhagen, 2 February 1955), she married as his second wife Fergus Stewartson Smith (b. Rochester, Monroe County, New York, 17 September 1949), Inventor, of South Londonderry, Londonderry, Windham County, Vermont, son of Arthur F. Smith (? - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, bur. Riverside Cemetery), of Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida, and Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, and wife Jean Dawson Rogers, of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in Kongsted Kirke, Kongstedlund, on 23 May 1981,  they had one daughter, separated in 1984 and divorced in 1987. She married Peter Rindom (b. Hellerup or Copenhagen, 10 October 1955), son of Jørgen Rindom (Hellerup, 22 September 1924 - ?), Wholesaler, Co-Owner of A. Rindom in Copenhagen, and wife (m. 20 October 1951) Ida Augusta Hartz (7 August 1927 - ?), in Gentofte Raadhus, Gentofte, on 6 February 1988 and they had two sons.
 * Dana Maerta af Rosenborg Smith (b. 31 December 1981), of New York, New York County, New York, Inventor
 * Peter Rindom (b. 13 September 1988)
 * Philip Rindom (b. 6 November 1990)

Titles and styles

 * 9 March 1922 – 24 May 1949: His Highness Prince Flemming of Denmark
 * 24 May 1949 – 19 June 2002: His Excellency Count Flemming of Rosenborg