People: Sep. 16, 1966

For several years the Danes have been wondering whom Daisy would marry. Otherwise known as Princess Margrethe, 26, Daisy will one day inherit the throne of Denmark. Now she has chosen her consort: Count Henri Jean Marie André de Laborde de Monpezat, 32, a French diplomat whom she met in London three years ago. Briefly leaving his post as third secretary of the French embassy in London to meet his future in-laws, the count called on King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen, practiced his Danish, and arranged his conversion from Catholicism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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