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…
Happy birthday to Princess Benedikte of Denmark - take a look at her extraordinary life so far
29th April 2018
Her Royal Highness Benedikte Astrid
Ingeborg Ingrid, Princess of Denmark, was born on 29 April 1944 at
Frederik VIII’s Palace, in the Amalienborg Complex, Copenhagen.
Having been born during World War II, Denmark was in the middle of
Nazi occupation, which made…
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…
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…
Watercolour paintings by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on Greenland stamps
25th April 2018
One fact that is perhaps not as
well-known to the vast majority of the world regarding the
leadership of Denmark is the not-so-hidden talents of its leading
monarch. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark was born in April of 1940
during World War II. By the time she assumed the…
It has been announced in Copenhagen that
Crown Prince Frederik will visit Beijing Design Week in September
this year. Some may remember the Crown Prince visiting the Beijing
for the exhibition last year. 2018 marks ten years since Denmark
and China entered into a partnership…
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…
The Royal Danish House has released new
images of Princess Isabella, the second child of Crown Prince
Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, who turns 11-years-old
today. The photographs show the Princess with her horse Lancet.
Photo: HRH Crown Princess Mary The three…
It has been revealed that the Dutch Photo
Agency has tried to sell paparazzi pictures of Princess Marie while
she was on holiday in Saint-Tropez, France, last summer. In the
images, the Danish Princess is seen sunbathing topless. The Dutch
Photo Agency has now promised to…
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…
