On this day in 1847, a Danish princess was born who would go on to become a Russian empress and give her name to a city centre cinema.
Her father was Christian IX, the ‘father-in-law’ of Europe because his children married into so many royal houses.
Dagmar’s sister, for example, was Queen Alexandra, the wife of British king Edward VII.
Read more: Consorting with the kings and tsars for nearly a millennium
Dagmar married Tsar Alexander III in 1866 and became empress in 1881. Her eldest son, Nicholas, was Russia’s last tsar.
