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Denmark's Prince Christian Features on The Simpsons

The Simpsons has been host to hundreds of guest stars. As with any long-running popular weekly series, it has featured many vastly celebrated figures of the acting world. The show has also been home to the fairly recurrent instance of public figure cameos. Besides the obvious onslaught of acting talent that has been involved with the program over its 29-season run, The Simpsons has had guest…
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Watercolour paintings by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on Greenland stamps

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 throne of Denmark from her father King Frederick IX in 1972, times were changing. Her position as ruler of the country was one…
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App for Royal Run in Denmark launched

To celebrate Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark’s milestone birthday of 50 years, the country of Denmark will be hosting a nationally recognised running event which will take place on 21 May 2018. This comes just nearly a week shy of Crown Prince Frederik’s…
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The Queen of Tears? Caroline Mathilde: The British-born Queen of Denmark

In the magnificent twelfth-century Gothic cathedral church of Roskilde on the island of Zealand, thirty-nine Kings and Queens of Denmark are buried. One Danish queen, however, is missing – and by no mere accident or fluke of history. Members of the Royal House of Denmark that she knew, such as her formidable stepmother-in-law, Queen Juliana Marie, are at Roskilde, as is, of course, her one-time…
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Danish Royal Family donates 750,000 Danish Kroner for world’s hungry children

The Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik Foundation has teamed with the Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary Foundation to donate 750,000 Danish kroner to support the world’s hungry children. The considerable donation was revealed as part of a televised fundraising event in Denmark on Saturday, 4 February – the eleventh annual Denmark Collection 2017 DR Saturday Night. The event was the…
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