Queen Margrethe II & Prince Henrik, Current Events Part 4: Jan. 2013 - November 2015

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Queen Margrethe attended the premiere of the puppet show "Comedy in Florence" at the Svalegangen theatre in Aarhus today, August 30.




** stiften.dk: Dronningen begejstret for dukketeater ** translation **

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Last weekend Prince Henrik participated in the cultural event "La forêt des livres" (The forest of books) in Chanceaux-prés-Loches, France.



** pp pic ** IBL gallery **

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Prince Henrik as Patron attended the Schubert Company's 20th anniversary concert in Roskilde yesterday evening, September 7:



** Pic ** sn.dk gallery: Prins Henrik i højt humør på Prindsen **

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A lovely looking Queen Margrethe officially opened the new Music Museum in Copenhagen today, September 11:



** ppe gallery **

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Today, September 17, Queen Margrethe was present at the opening of the exhibition "1814 - Spillet om Danmark og Norge" (1814 - The drama of Denmark and Norway) at Frederiksborg Castle. The exhibition tells the story of how Denmark lost Norway 200 years ago.



** sn.dk gallery: Dronning modtaget i solskin og folkedragter **

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H. M. The Queen is present at the inauguration of the DTI's new research headquarters for the Danish Meat Research Institute.

article and pictures
Indvielse med dronning og flæskesteg - sn.dk - sn.dk - Lokal - Taastrup

more about the place
Indvielse af nyt domicil til Danish Meat Research Institute - Kongehuset

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On September 26 Queen Margrethe attended the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Sophie School in Bagsværd.



** kongehuset.dk gallery: Sofieskolens 50-års jubilæum **

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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik are at the Chateau de Cayx in France these days and posed for some pics on October 3. They attended the start of the grape harvests and participated in a shooting of a documentary about their castle and their wines. Margrethe and Henrik also celebrated the inauguration of their private museum with 4000 pieces of art.



** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** Pic 5 ** Pic 6 ** Pic 7 ** Pic 8 **


** pm gallery: Margrethe veille aux grains ** royalista.com article **

[polyesco]

thanks
a nice week abroad for both

[Muhler]

I just watched the news and there was a segment about QMII inaugurating the newly renovated and now state of the art natural history museum Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus.
http://www.tv2oj.dk/artikel/229904:A...er-en-stor-dag

For those interesting in bog mummies and human pre-history, this is a must! I personally look very much forward to visiting the museum - and with a little bit of luck I might persude wife or children to come along.

Anyway here are a couple of pics of the main attraction: The Grauballe Man (WARNING: nudity).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...llemanden2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...allemanden.jpg
http://old.udkantsadam.dk/wp-content...ds/dag31_1.jpg

And this is how he is believed to have looked like: http://grauballekonen.dk/uf/0_9999/6...981c0fbe56.jpg

He's been sleeping for some 2.000 years and he is believed to have been sacrificed. - But perhaps he was murder victim? An executed criminal? A prisoner of war? He certainly didn't commit suicide!

Anyway, there is no doubt in my mind that QMII could hardly wait to visit the museum! Prehistory is just her thing!

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Here are two galleries of Margrethe at the opening at Moesgård Museum yesterday:


** aarhus.lokalavisen.dk: Dronning Margrethe åbner Moesgaard Museum **


** stiften.dk: Se billederne: Dronning Margrethe foretog åbningen af Moesgård Museum **

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Yesterday, October 13, Prince Henrik presented his poetry and signed his books, followed by a reception at Nivaagaard in Nivå.



** Pic ** kongehuset.dk gallery: Besøg på Nivaagaard **


** BB: Prins Henrik: Mine digte er romantiske ** translation **

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Queen Margrethe presented the annual Queen Ingrid Research Prize to the Arthritis Society at Christian IX's Palace, Amalienborg, yesterday, October 14:



** kongehuset.dk: Overrækkelse af Dronning Ingrids Forskerpris 2014 **

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On October 14, Prince Henrik was present at the unveiling of renovated vases on the roof balustrade of Marienlyst Castle in Helsingør.

What a lovely scenery!



** sn.dk gallery: Se billederne: Prins Henrik på Marienlyst slot **


** BB: Prins Henrik fejrede genopsætning med kanonaffyring ** translation **


** marienlyst.nu gallery: Genopsætningen af N. H. Jardins vaser ved H.K.H. Prins Henrik **

[Muhler]

Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by our woman in France, Annelise Weimann.

The Regent Couple have been at Chateau Cayx for the annual wine harvest. Things seems to go pretty well, but just like any other farmer world wide, PH is never too positive...
Perhaps with some justification this year. Because even though the wine has gotten a pretty good review in the magazine Decanter, wild boars have eaten grapes to the equivalent of twelve thousand bottles of white wine. So he only got ten thousand bottles this yearm and he added lakonnically: "I'll be a poor farmer".

The wine harvest is going on in fact as the article went into print, so it's still too early to say what will be the final outcome.

But apart from the harvest PH has opened his own art museum in the vaults under the chateau. Here he is displaying his rather large collection of African art (*) and a collection of jade pieces.

While our reporter was there a film was being made about the chateau. The film will be a part of small clips designed to promote France.

(*) I learned a couple of years ago, by following the DRF, that virtually all African art is contemporary. In the sense that traditionally art in Africa is made for the present, to be used or enjoyed now and then it will be discarded. Art pieces being handed down through the generations are the exception - outside of collectors circles that is.


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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by Ken Richter.

QMII opened the newly renovated Moesgaard Natural History Museaum in Aarhus - and that was something that had her interest!

In fact she opened the museum when it had been been build back in 1970, so this is a place she is most familiar with.
After giving the speech and opening the whole show it was time for a tour of the museum, and that lasted longer, a lot longer, than scheduled! Because the Majesty was very interested in curious and she wasn't contend with seeing what the museum had planned for her to see, she took a detour when something caught her interest and that happened a number of times.

- I can almost see her adjutant and LiW trying to drag QMII away from the museum!

[Muhler]

Some of you may think you've lived to see it all. Wrong!

Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by Henrik Salling.
The author, Erik Svane and the cartoonist, Thierry Capezzone, have made a comics album about QMII's early life as a princess.
The title is Daisy - a Princess in Denmark. Hardcover and costs a whopping 168 DKK!

They plan to publish a second volume, about QMII's early years as queen.

Reading the captions to some of the pictures it's clear to me that they are based on actual quotes from either interviews or biographies and also that the cartoonist has looked a pics of what QMII actually wore a various events.
Judge for yourself:
https://app.box.com/s/3zprxlxxlfqtwjps1cwb
https://app.box.com/s/68yr836mbwe6nbm4vz3k

[Lee-Z]

Originally Posted by Muhler

Some of you may think you've lived to see it all. Wrong!

Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by Henrik Salling.
The author, Erik Svane and the cartoonist, Thierry Capezzone, have made a comics album about QMII's early life as a princess.
The title is Daisy - a Princess in Denmark. Hardcover and costs a whopping 168 DKK!

Reading the captions to some of the pictures it's clear to me that they are based on actual quotes from either interviews or biographies and also that the cartoonist has looked a pics of what QMII actually wore a various events.
Judge for yourself:
https://app.box.com/s/3zprxlxxlfqtwjps1cwb
https://app.box.com/s/68yr836mbwe6nbm4vz3k

Okaaaaay.... i bet no-one predicted this to happen at the start of the year, a royal comic book
I'm still undecided between "hmm, might be interesting" and "....why...?"

[gerry]

Originally Posted by Lee-Z

Okaaaaay.... i bet no-one predicted this to happen at the start of the year, a royal comic book
I'm still undecided between "hmm, might be interesting" and "....why...?"

Perhaps not all DRF members are of the current generation that sees 'read' as a four letter word best to be avoided.This kind of book in North America is called a 'graphic novel' and is wildly popular among young people. No doubt this publication is meant to endear the DRF to the next generation

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Yesterday, October 27, Queen Margrethe attended the presentation of the Memorial Company's publication "Danish Royal Tombs" in Roskilde.


** Pic ** roskilde.lokalavisen.dk: Dronningen begravet i bøger ** translation **

[Muhler]

Thanks, Iceflower.

As you can tell from QMII's broad smile this is a book that is sure to be read!

Let's have a little peculiar trivia about DRF burials.
Nowadays Monarchs are buried in (or outside) Roskilde Cathedral. But in medieval times that was different. If a king was killed in battle or murdered he was always buried locally. That happened to quite a few kings!
If the king died a natural death he was taken away and most often buried at Roskilde Cathedral.
I have never heard an explanation for that custom.