Denmark

Princess Marie attends launch of GeoPark's Children Art Project

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1st May 2018
On 30 April, Princess Marie attended the launch of GeoPark’s Children Art Project, the biggest children’s art project in Denmark. GeoPark Odsherred was the first GeoPark opened in Denmark and is now sponsored by UNESCO. Geokids is an art project and educational offer for school students in Odsherred which started in 2014. In connection with the project, the students have been…
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Denmark

Annual report released for Danish Royal House

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29th April 2018
The Royal Danish House released its Annual Report for 2017 late last week, outlining the activities of the Danish Royal Family. There was a deficit of 2.8 million krone, which the Royal House says “can be attributed to the extraordinary expenses of the Royal Danish House…
Denmark

Queen Margrethe of Denmark's sarcophagus completed

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25th April 2018
Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s sarcophagus has been completed and been placed in Sankt Birgittas Chapel in Roskilde Domkirke. It will be there that she will lay upon her death alongside close to 40 Danish kings and queens going back to the early Middle Ages up to present day – including her parents, King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. Construction began in 2003 in what was initially a…
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Crown Princess Mary opens Danish Women's Crisis Centre

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22nd April 2018
On 20 April, Crown Princess Mary opened the new Danish Women’s Crisis Centre in Copenhagen. The Crisis Centre is a residence and counselling centre for women who are abused. The new centre will focus on newborn mothers and pregnant women, and it can accommodate 20 women and their children, making it one of the largest shelters in the country. The Crisis Centre is supported by the Mary…
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Queen Margrethe celebrates first birthday after Prince Henrik's death

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19th April 2018
It wasn’t that long ago that Prince Henrik died from a pulmonary infection on 13 February, leaving Queen Margrethe of Denmark a widow. For a couple who had been married for fifty years, it was clear there was still a spark between the two. When they met in the spring of 1965 at a dinner party in London, neither had realised they had just met the love of their life.The Margrethe and Henrik…
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