Frederick VIII

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Frederick VIII, detail from a portrait by Otto Bache, 1911

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 30, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		May 10, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 04, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Royal Danish Collections - Biography of Frederik VIII.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jun 09, 2017
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998