Denmark’s French-born princess Marie gives birth to her first child, a son

Denmark’s French-born princess gives birth to son

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s Princess Marie gave birth to a son on Monday, a year after she gave up her French citizenship to marry the Scandinavian country’s Prince Joachim.

The newborn — weighing 6.7 pounds (3 kilograms) and measuring 20 inches (49 centimeters) at birth — is seventh in line to the Danish throne.

Joachim said his 33-year-old wife and the child were both doing fine.

“It is a very moving moment,” the 39-year-old prince told reporters at the hospital in Copenhagen.

He said he was present during the birth and cut the umbilical cord, but that the couple had not yet settled on a name for the baby. He and Marie married in May 2008.

Joachim is the younger brother of Crown Prince Frederik and is fourth in the line of royal succession.

He has two sons — Felix, 7, and Nikolai, 9 — from a previous marriage with Hong Kong-born Alexandra Manley. The couple divorced in 2005 in Denmark’s first royal split in nearly 160 years.

It was Queen Margrethe’s fifth grandchild. Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Crown Princess Mary, have two children.