Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Her one exception was her militant anti-German sentiment due to the annexation of Danish territories by the newly-created German Empire.

Her family had been relatively obscure until, when she was a child, her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne.

Her later books usually appeared simultaneously in both Danish and English.

Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.

Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese.

Her father was a native of Alabama and primarily of English ancestry with small amounts of Welsh and Danish ; her mother was also a native of Alabama and of English and Scottish descent.

* The Silver Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ( accession to the Danish throne

Her grandfather Erik Eriksen of Demstrup (" Gyldenstjerne ") was Danish, but became acquainted with Sweden, because the two realms were united in the Kalmar Union.

Her godparents were her paternal uncle The Prince Leopold ( for whom The Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel ( represented by Prince Francis of Teck ); Count Gleichen ; the Duchess of Nassau ( for whom Princess Francis of Teck ); the King of Sweden and Norway ( who was represented by Baron Hochschild, the Swedish minister ); the Princess of Leiningen ( represented by Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde ); her maternal aunt the Tsarevna of Russia ( represented by the Baroness de Brunnow, the Russian ambassador's wife ); the Crown Princess of Denmark ( represented by Madame de Bülow, the Danish Minister's wife ); and the Duchess of Inverness ( widow of Queen Victoria's uncle the Duke of Sussex ).

Her remaining four children ( Ekaterina, Elizaveta, Peter and Alexei ) were released from prison in to the custody of their aunt, the Danish queen dowager Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in 30 June 1780 and settled in Jutland, were they lived in comfort under house arrest in Horsens for the rest of their lives under the guardianship of Juliana and at the expense of Catherine the Great: having lived as prisoners, they were not used to social life, and kept a small " court " of 40 / 50 people, all Danish except for the priest

Her father Claus Toksvig was a foreign correspondent for the Danish television channel Danmarks Radio so Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark.

Her mother was of Greek, English, and Welsh descent, and her father was of Danish and English ancestry.

Her parents, mag. art Karen Nyrop and mag. art Anders Carl Christensen, were both engaged to teach French language for listeners at the Danish State Broadcast when it started around 1926.

Her history is fully explained in The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, but it can be summed up rather briefly.

Her family had been relatively obscure until her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant childless cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne.

Her brother George I of Greece suggested that she have the baby in Athens to avoid scandal ; the Danish press was told Thyra had been taken ill with jaundice.

Her mother was a Norwegian circus performer and her father a Danish stablemaster.

Her brother is the former Danish footballer Ken Martin.

Her exotic beauty combined with culture and elegance secured her position though she was not the only talented Danish actress of her age.

Her image was featured on the front of the Danish 1997 series 200-krone banknote.

Her children's books, listed below, have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and will be in Thai and Polish.

Her first dance partner was Mikhail Botashev, a Danish champion, and in 1990 they won a Lambada competition ; and a year later, they were the first Soviet pair of their age to be allowed abroad to dance.

Her social background was similar to what Ventris ' had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

Her cynicism grew when one of the two pictures she submitted in 1875 was refused by the jury, only to be accepted the following year after she darkened the background.

Her supposed Mustique indiscretions form an important part of the background of the quasi-historical 2008 film The Bank Job.

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

Her game concept included animated color graphics, a pseudo 3D-perspective where the main character was visible on the screen, a more competent text parser that would understand advanced commands from the player, and music playing in the background through the PCjr sound hardware.

Her father, Robert Goulden, came from a modest Manchester merchant family with its own background of political activity.

Her background and performances earned her the nickname " the Flying Housewife ".

Her presence creates an awkward situation, but when Samia, a pompous family friend, ridicules Rayette's background, Robert gives a fiery defense of her.

Her story, retold in the first person, closely mirrors Joan's story and background.

Her speech as Delight in Endless Nights takes the same form, with somewhat orderly lettering and a faint rainbow background.

Her classical educational background is clearly seen in her poetry, which captures her literary talent.

" Her texts usually take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race often appears in the background.

Her mother, Annie Grayce Yarbrough, had a similar background of an uneducated working-class family in Greene County, Georgia.

Her contributions to the songs had been reduced to periodic eight-bar raps, and studio session singers such as Debra Killings often took her place on the background vocals for the group's songs.

Her Jewish background hindered selection of Volynov for space missions.

Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish-American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family.

Her father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, from a heavily Irish Catholic background died when she was 16.

Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.

Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter ( 1877 – 1974 ), was a dentist who came from a working-class background and attended dental college in Kansas City.

Her first marriage to Jeffrey Ross was revealed in the press for the first time, her educational background was clarified, she appeared in a Barbara Walters interview on 20 / 20, and her estranged relations with Rudy Giuliani's children were examined.

Her business background made the offer at least defensible, but she had no knowledge of Australian politics or economics, and not much experience of managing a large and complex office.

Her parents initially disapproved of him due to the many differences in background, age, and politics.

Her most recent album, Journey to The Snow Queen, is more of an audio book — she reads the Snow Queen fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in the background.

Her career background includes being the Director of the Greenwich Racial Equality Council as well as a Community and Equal Opportunities Worker.