It will be a special few days of
festivities when Queen Margrethe of Denmark turns 80 in April, and
royals from around Europe are expected to attend the celebrations
this spring. The first of the guests were revealed this week when
it was announced thatKing Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima, and
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands will attend. The full statement
from the Royal House of the…
Princess Marie will undertake a
humanitarian trip in Uganda from 26 February to 1 March as Patron
of DanChurchAid. Princess Marie will be joined by DanChurchAid’s
Secretary-General Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen and the organisation’s
local staff during the trip where…
Crown Prince Frederik has undergone a
minor shoulder operation today after sustaining an injury skiing in
Switzerland last week. The successful outpatient procedure took
place in Copenhagen at the Rigshospitalet. The Crown Prince hurt
his left shoulder while skiing in…
Queen Margrethe of Denmark is set to sail
away on the royal yacht Dannebrog as part of an annual summer tour
of the country. The Queen will make a visit to the island of Anholt
on 3 June and Aarhus Municipality from 5 June to 6 June. Later in
the summer, Her Majesty visits the municipalities of Thisted on 31
August, Esbjerg on 1 September and Fanø on 2 September. The Royal
Court states that the…
Queen Margrethe II was, once again,
accompanied by her younger sister, Princess Benedikte, for a major
engagement in Copenhagen. The princess joined Margrethe at the
official opening of a new permanent feature at the Amalienborg
Palace which will showcase glittering items…
Birth and Childhood Mary Elizabeth
Donaldson was born on 5 February 1972 in Hobart, Tasmania,
Australia. She was the youngest child of Donald and Henrietta
Donaldson. She has two older sisters, Jane and Patricia, and an
older brother, John. Mary’s mother died in…
Today, Princess Marie had her second
official engagement of the year in Paris, France, as she opened the
“Les Contes Étranges de NH Jacobsen, un Danois à Paris” at the
Bourdelle Museum. The “Les Contes Étranges de N.H. Jacobsen, un
Danois à Paris” exhibition is the first exhibition in France
devoted to Niels Hansen Jacobsen (1861-1941) and aims to take the
visitor into the…
Princess Athena of Denmark celebrated her
eighth birthday on 24 January, and to mark the day, the Royal
Danish House, released three photos, taken by Athena’s mother,
Princess Marie. One of the three photos features Athena with her
family dog, Cerise. © HRH…
Denmark’s Crown Prince Couple cancels further “hidden income” from private ski lodge
20th January 2020
Last week, Royal Central reported that
Crown Prince Frederik revealed that the Danish crown Prince family
would during their 12-week stay in Switzerland live in the villa
they had owned for ten years. Several Danish far-left
parliamentarians reacted to the realisation…
As Queen Margrethe of Denmark will
celebrate her 80th birthday on 16 April 2020, the Danish Court
today released a program of events celebrating the Queen during the
month of April. The program is similar to the one organised to
celebrate the Queen’s 75th birthday in 2015. On 2 April, the Queen
will officially open the exhibition “The faces of the Queen” at the
National…
