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Denmark’s King Christian IX offered Denmark to Germany in 1864 in an attempt to prevent the division of the country, but Germany declined, according to newly-opened records made available to an author by the country’s current monarch Queen Margrethe II.
According to the report, King Christian IX secretly offered Prussia’s Wilhelm I that Denmark could become part of the German Confederation in an attempt to avoid the monarchy losing Schleswig and Holstein after the wars of 1864.
