After announcing that, due to an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, many of the major public events of Queen Margarethe’s Golden Jubilee were to be postponed, the Danish Royal Household has released a new timeline for the celebrations.
The events were supposed to take place in mid-January, around the date of her father’s death and her subsequent ascension to the throne (which falls on the 14th of January), but they have now been moved to the 10th and 11th of September.
Those events include “celebrations at Copenhagen City Hall, a gala performance at the Royal Theatre’s Old Stage, festive service in Copenhagen Cathedral and gala dinner at Christiansborg Castle”, according to the press release.
The intention is to maintain a small number of events for January 14th; at 9:30am, the Queen and the Crown Prince will welcome the Prime Minister at Christiansborg Castle while at 10am, the Queen, Crown Prince and Crown Princess, Prince Joachim and Princess Marie and Princess Benedikte will take part in the celebrations at the Danish Folketing, offered by the Parliament.At 12pm, the family will move to Roskilde Cathedral, where they will lay a wreath on the grave of King Christian IX and Queen Ingrid, father and mother of the current Monarch.
Since the public will no longer be allowed to gather in the Yellow Palace at Amalienborg as is traditional for big Royal events, the Court has added a section to its website where citizens will be able to leave personal congratulatory messages for the Queen.
The jubilee-dedicated area of the website will also be continuously updated with information about the activities that will take place throughout the year in connection with the jubilee.
In the press release, the Royal Household also specified that a more detailed program for the mid-September celebrations will be announced later in the year.
