Did the danish royalty have flings with maids?

Question

Many of my older relatives (mostly great aunts and uncles) have told me that my great-great grandfather's mother was a maid of the danish king and they had a fling and thats how my great great grandpa came to be. but obvisously he wasnt given a title or even acknowledged as the kings son. so im wondering if my family is right or crazy.

Answer 1

Imagine you are a 19th Century Royal. Your job description is;

a) to be (just in case everyone in Royal Line of Succession before you dies), and

b) production of male heirs (and thereafter, spares).

Light duties. Great pay. Short hours. Fringe benefits. Adoring crowds. All the salutes you can eat. Staff to sweat the small stuff. Your advisors know you have an eye for the ladies. To keep you from getting bored, and going out to catch a dose of the clap with the local daughters of the evening, they surround you with a large circle of socially acceptable horsey out-doorsey enthusiastic healthy naive aristocratic girls whose parents are pressuring them to sleep with you (the Court), and attractive healthy available servants (the Household). Palace Maid would have been a high prestige long term career for today's modern pro-Monarchist domestic service professional.

Imagine one of the maids caught your eye. As a Royal, you are not an Alpha Male, you are an Apex Male. She is loyal, pro-Monarchist, and would never refuse anything you asked. Everybody in the environment is discreet and employed to make your life interesting. Nobody tells you who you can and can't amuse yourself with (until the 1980s, all of the newspaper owners were deferential).

Is it possible that royalty had flings with maids? What do you think?

Answer 2

You have the information and the stories. Maybe you should ask for advice in genealogy to find the best way to get your information ?

Answer 3

Why don't you do some genealogy research on it??  

My grandfather's sister took our family history back to the 1600's in England (unfortunately just a bunch of normal folk - no royals "infusions").  And, she did that in the 1970s without a computer - which always really impressed me.  

If you found a birth certificate without a husband's name -- that might be a bit of "proof" for the family legend.

Answer 4

it wouldn't be a first  nobles are pretty well known through out history for having b*****d children