Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Danish Honorific Titles for women

Kammerdame means ChamberLady and is the equivalent to the male title of Kammerherre. The tasks are honorific - the Kammerdames accompany ambassadors to their audience with the Queen and have other tasks at court.

Hofjægermester means Master of the Royal Hunt and is a title bestowed on land-owners or landed gentry. 

See also Denmark Heads of State

1997- Kammerdame Lensgrevinde Susanne Wedel
Her husband, Tino Wedel, died in 1982 and she administered the Manors of Frijsenborg and Wedellsborg - among the biggest estates in Denmark- for her infant son, Bendt. Her husband had inherited Frijsenborg from his mother, Inger Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, who inherited the Fiefcounty of Frijsenborg in 1923, after her father Mogens. She married Fiefcount Julius Wedell til Wedellsborg and in 1958 the two estats were united.

1997- Hofjægermester Britta Caroc Schall Holberg, til Hagenskov
Owner of the Estate of Hagenskov. Former Vice-Mayor of Assens and Minister of the Interior and Agriculture and Liberal MP several times.

1997- Hofjægermester Anne Dorothea Agnete Tesdorph Carstenschiold, til Pandebjerg
Owner of the Estate of Pandebjerg

1998- Hofjægermester Charlotte Riegels Hjort, til Broksø
She later handed ower the Estate of Broksø to her daughter Cathrine Riegels Gudbergsen.

2000- Kammerdame Carin Sigrid Eleonore von Haffner
She was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Ingrid

2000- Kammerdame Davide Rostock-Jensen
She was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Ingrid

2001- Kammerdame Anita van Hauen Garth-Grüner
She was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Margrethe until she resigned in 2001.

2001-08 Kammerdame Komtesse Wava Kitty Armfelt
Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Margrethe 1955-2008, she was daughter of Count Carl Magnus Mauritz Armfelt, who was Finnish military attaché in Stockholm and his second wife Inge Blechingberg, who married Ambassador Oscar Ludvig Oxholm, owner of Rosenfeldt Castle, inherited by her half-sister, Elsa Oxholm (1929-1991) in 1949 and now owned by her son, Oscar Oxholm Tillisch. Unmarried and lived (1925-2008).

2003- Kammerdame Ulla Gorwetz Obel
Retired as Lady-in-waiting in 2003.

2005- Hofjægermester Barbara Mourier-Petersen, til Rugaard
Owner of the Estate of Rugaard

2008- Kammerdame Countess Helle Flamand Moltke
Her daughter by her first marriage, Caroline Heering, is the lady-in-waiting of Crown Princess Mary. Her second husband, Count Norman Moltke, died of cancer in 1988, and she administered the estates of Lystrup and Jomfruens Egede for her son, Joachim (b. 1988-). (b. 1947-)

2008- Hofjægermester Birgitte Dinesen, til Kragerup

Around 2008- Hofjægermester Silvia Holstein-Ledreborg Munro, til Ledreborg
Daughter of Count Knud Holstein-Ledreborg and Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg and was married to Scottish noble-man John Munro. Her aunt, Birgitte, married Prince Jacque de Bourbon-Parma and her sister, Lydia married Prince Eric de Bourbon-Parma. (b. 1958-).

2009- Kammerdame Anne Elisabeth Lütken, til Broholm Slot
Inherited the castle from her mother Birgitte Sehested and John Grice in 2001 and still manages it after she sold it to her son, Anders Sehested Hjerl-Hansen in 2008.

Last update 22.04.09