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Imperial Majesty
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Things are a bit quiet in BB this week, so let me end with summaries of two articles from Billed Bladet #41, 2010.
Til middag hos Dronningen - To dinner with the Queen.
Written by Annelise Weimann.
Both the Irish President, Mary McAleese, and the Mongolian President, Bolormaa Khajidsuren have been on official visits lately. As such they were the guest of the Danish government, rather than guests of the Danish Monarch as is the case with state visits.
The Mongolian President has visited DK before and he had lunch with QMII and Prince Henrik. Alas, the President's wife had to return home as her father died. Bolormaa Khajidsuren has an interesting background as he is a university graduate, while his eight brothers are goat sheperds. - I guess the family could only afford one of them to attend university.
As the diplomatic protocol dictates, a visiting head of state must also greet the head of state of the country he/she is visiting. Not doing so would be an insult. And while doing so the visiting head of state is treated to a lunch, an official, but still fairly low key dinner or at the very least a cup of coffee.
The Irish President was treated to an Irish inspired first course, deer and Napoleon cookies (too sweet and fattening for me).
I mudder til knæene - In mud to the knees.
Written by Annelise Weimann.
It's no secret that QMII is very interested in archaeology, - to put it mildly. (*) So it was a delighted Queen who opened an exhibition at the National Museum about her and her interest for archaeology.
It was actually her nanny who opened her eyes for archaeology and Margrethe was twelve when she first took part in an excavation - and she was hooked! It was a wet and muddy afternoon and she loved it!
Her grandfather (morfar), the Swedish King Gustav VI Adolf, took her out to a number of excavation and they were memorable times of her life.
She later studied archaelogy in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Cambridge.
She hasn't had opportunities to take part in excavations for years, but that didn't prevent her from basically throwing herself down on her belly, to have a closer look at some runes at a dig on the island of Bornholm.
At the exhibition it will be QMII's voice you will hear talk about excavations, finds, experiences and so on.
(*) She has stated more than once that if she hadn't become Queen, she would have become an archaelogist.
Til middag hos Dronningen - To dinner with the Queen.
Written by Annelise Weimann.
Both the Irish President, Mary McAleese, and the Mongolian President, Bolormaa Khajidsuren have been on official visits lately. As such they were the guest of the Danish government, rather than guests of the Danish Monarch as is the case with state visits.
The Mongolian President has visited DK before and he had lunch with QMII and Prince Henrik. Alas, the President's wife had to return home as her father died. Bolormaa Khajidsuren has an interesting background as he is a university graduate, while his eight brothers are goat sheperds. - I guess the family could only afford one of them to attend university.
As the diplomatic protocol dictates, a visiting head of state must also greet the head of state of the country he/she is visiting. Not doing so would be an insult. And while doing so the visiting head of state is treated to a lunch, an official, but still fairly low key dinner or at the very least a cup of coffee.
The Irish President was treated to an Irish inspired first course, deer and Napoleon cookies (too sweet and fattening for me).
I mudder til knæene - In mud to the knees.
Written by Annelise Weimann.
It's no secret that QMII is very interested in archaeology, - to put it mildly. (*) So it was a delighted Queen who opened an exhibition at the National Museum about her and her interest for archaeology.
It was actually her nanny who opened her eyes for archaeology and Margrethe was twelve when she first took part in an excavation - and she was hooked! It was a wet and muddy afternoon and she loved it!
Her grandfather (morfar), the Swedish King Gustav VI Adolf, took her out to a number of excavation and they were memorable times of her life.
She later studied archaelogy in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Cambridge.
She hasn't had opportunities to take part in excavations for years, but that didn't prevent her from basically throwing herself down on her belly, to have a closer look at some runes at a dig on the island of Bornholm.
At the exhibition it will be QMII's voice you will hear talk about excavations, finds, experiences and so on.
(*) She has stated more than once that if she hadn't become Queen, she would have become an archaelogist.
), the artist behind the tapestries which can be seen at Christiansborg Palace and which the queen received as a gift for her 50th birthday. The tomb will be made of sandblown glass carried on three pillars which will be made of stone from Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the island of Bornholm, respectively. Each pillar will be decorated with the silver head of an elephant.
Which is of course why the gentlemen mentioned here assumed that QMII's bag has to have a practical function. 
