Danish Royal Family, Current Events Part 4: June 2012 - May 2016


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Have Frederik and Mary moved back to Amalienborg, or are they still in their summer home? Have Joachim and Marie moved to Copenhagen?
 
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Have Frederik and Mary moved back to Amalienborg, or are they still in their summer home? Have Joachim and Marie moved to Copenhagen?
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Joachim and our Marie will officially start moving in at their new home in October.

Thanks Polyesco & Roskilde :flowers:
 
Thanks, Polyesco. :flowers:

This time wearing the mess uniform of the Guards Hussars. - I know you are an admirer of Frederik in uniforms... ;)
(Perhaps you should start a poll about which uniform looks best on Frederik and throw in a a pair of red pants as a civillian alternative...) :p
 
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A great idea;):ROFLMAO:
For me it would be the full naval uniform. With the longer coat.
But Frederik can wear a bag of potatos and still look great:p

Joachim was wearing his usual uniform. The one with blue pants and top hat blue. Does he not have different ones?
 
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That would be Frederik's full dress navy winter-uniform.

With top hat, I presume you mean his kepi? The Danish 1860's uniforms were (just like the US uniforms at the same time) very much modelled on the French uniforms at the time.
No, Joachim only served in the army, and not a guards regiment, but a life-regiment i.e. a regiment traditionally attached a particular royal. (An equivalent to the British X-royal's Own Regiment of Foot or something similar).
 
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #40, 2014.
Written by Annelise Weimann.

As you will recall the DRF recently attended a concert on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Danish army. (The navy in comparison is 500 years old).
That took place in the Opera, which is located across the harbour from Amalienborg. As such the DRF crossed the harbour in two chaluppes (grand navy boats) and they arrives as dusk was setting in. (*)
Here they were recieved by the navy band playing outside the Opera.

In 1614 Christian IV established the first standing army consiting of a militia of 4.000 men. (**) Before then armies were raised for the occasion or they were household troops, belonging to various royals or nobles.

Inside several hundred guests had been invited for the concert, where the Music Corps of the Royal Lifeguard Regiment played along with other bands from the armed forces.
The conferencier was a very good friend of M&F, the very popular Preben Christensen, who is the husband of Mary's hairdresser, Søren Hedegaard.
And suddenly he announced that a brand new (saluting/honorary) march would be played in public for the first time. It's the Crown Princess Mary's Honorary March.
That made Frederik to become so moved that he felled a tear and when Mary saw that, she had to wipe her eyes as well.

Salute-/honorary marches are designated the various members of the DRF.
Queen Margrethe's Parade-march is played at the changing of the guards at noon in front of the palaces. And while the music corps is there they usually play a couple of the other honorary marches.
When Frederik becomes king, the march designated him will become the march played at the changing of the guards.
However when a royal is alone on the job and for whatever reason encounter a military band, the march designated him or her will be played. And that will happen for Mary as well from now on. And that will be a personal salute, hence the name salute/honary march.

(*) At this time of year it's time to turn on the lights in our homes around 19.00. Just a few months ago in late June it was around 22.30. Time flies...

(**) To call it a militia is a simplified truth. The 4.000 men were each given a small plot of land for them and their families. In return they were fully equipped and armed and responsible for maintaining their training, show up for various service for a limited time and of course for drills and ultimately for war. As such they constituted (in theory) a fully equipped and trained force that could be mobilized within a couple of days.
Normally royals or nobles formed their own companies of tenent farmers, whom they were responsible for equipping, arming, training and feeding. That was fairly cheap but took time!
The alternative was to hire mercenaries. That also took time and they were very expensive and quite troublesome to have around in peacetime.
So a kind of yeomen were preferred, hence the establishment of the 4.000 militia.
Towns had since ancient times been responsible for their own defence and town-militias were not required to take to the field outside the immediate area.

This mix of militia and yeomen however soon proved inadequte, especially in regards to training, so permanent regular regiments were soon formed.

A hundred years before the defence of the realm rested on the shoulders of all free men. All free men were required to be armed and armoured and to show up when the realm was in danger. The call being "mand af hus" = meaning something like full mobilization.
The problem was that people showed up with inadequate and ofte antiquated equipment and weapons and they were in no way adequately trained let alone able to fight as units.
- And more importantly they would rebel litterally at the drop of a hat!
So after the Feud of the Count, a vicious civil war taking place in the 1530's, civillians were disarmed to avoid another civil war and the constant trouble with armed citizen showing up complaining about something (usually taxation), which meant the king had to dispatch someone to calm the situation, preferably without bloodshed. - And usually they actually succeeded! Except for a couple of nobles and a few officials being beaten up and and a farm or two torched - which the rebels duly helped rebuild afterwards when things had been resolved...
 
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #40, 2014.
Written by Annelise Weimann.

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The conferencier was a very good friend of M&F, the very popular Preben Christensen, who is the husband of Mary's hairdresser, Søren Hedegaard.
And suddenly he announced that a brand new (saluting/honorary) march would be played in public for the first time. It's the Crown Princess Mary's Honorary March.
That made Frederik to become so moved that he felled a tear and when Mary saw that, she had to wipe her eyes as well.

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Thanks Muhler :flowers:

I would love to hear the Crown Princess Mary's Honorary March. I wonder when we will get to hear it?

I can imagine Frederik was really proud.
 
:previous: Thanks Polyesco,

Unfortunately, we most likely won't get any pictures at all. "There will be no press access" it are written on the royal family's website. But maybe they will publish a few on their website...

This dinner with the The Royal Couple and The Crown Prince Couple is held every year, but AFAIK we have never seen any pictures. Pity.
 
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Roskilde said:
:previous: Thanks Polyesco,

Unfortunately, we most likely won't get any pictures at all. "There will be no press access" it are written on the royal family's website. But maybe they will publish a few on their website...

This dinner with the The Royal Couple and The Crown Prince Couple is held every year, but AFAIK we have never seen any pictures. Pity.
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Hopefully they release one or so.
I think in the last one that they did, that Frederik and Joachim attended last year i think, we got pictures of Frederik and Joachim arriving.
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WWII ended 70 years ago this year.
And Denmark was liberated also 70 years ago on the 5th May to be exact, but the message that the German forces in Denmark had surrendered came on the 4th May at 19.36, during the Danish news broadcasted via BBC in London. As such the whole country exploded in joy that evening and throughout the night, while the German forces quietly retreated to their barracks. - They made it, they too had survived...

I'll give you more info, background and stories about that later.

However, the DRF are also going to commemorate that day both on the 4th and the 5th.

Here is the schedule from BB: http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/saadan-markerer-kongehuset-70-aaret-befrielsen

4th May.
QMII will lay down a wreath at Mindelunden = the Remembrance Grove, outside Copenhagen. Here resistance fighters were executed during the war.

5th May.
At 08.30 Frederik will lay down a wreath at the anchor in Nyhavn in Copenhagen. The anchor commemorates the sailors who sailed, fought and drowned in Allied service during WWII. - I think there is a good chance of seeing Frederik in his navy uniform, for those who appreciate that... no one mentioned, no one left out, right Polyesco? ;)

At 10.00 M&F will attend a memorial service in Copenhagen Cathedral.

At 13.00 Joachim will give a speech at Skamlingsbanken. During WWII that was a popular place for communal singing. Communal singing became extremely popular during the Occupation. When people are seriously scared and concerned about the future they start to sing... To keep the fear away and to find comfort in those around you and also in this case singing songs that had a double meaning and that was a way to voice your protest and defiance in an albeit meek way. One of the most popular songs had a refrain saying: "ugræs er føget over hegnet = weed has blown over the fence" - It sure had!

But also for the Swedes that evening and night was special. Certainly for those who lived along the coast across the sound from Copenhagen. After five long years the Danish coast lit up again.

QMII of course can actually remember the Liberation and she has spoken about it recently.
 
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The choir, which I´m a member of, will along with 3 other choirs sing in Copenhagen Squares. We´ll sing "En lærke letted og tusind fulgte" (A lark eased and thousand followed) - a song, although written for the Danish YMCA, which has become the song everybody sings on May 4th.

At 20:00 one of the choirs will sing at the ground of the Museum of Liberation and two choirs at Gammeltorv and one choir in the courtyard at Vartov.
We´ll gather at 21:30 at City Hall Square and there will be a joined concert and communal singing.

So if you are in Copenhagen tomorrow, please come and join us :)
 
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4th May.
QMII will lay down a wreath at Mindelunden = the Remembrance Grove, outside Copenhagen. Here resistance fighters were executed during the war.

5th May.
At 08.30 Frederik will lay down a wreath at the anchor in Nyhavn in Copenhagen. The anchor commemorates the sailors who sailed, fought and drowned in Allied service during WWII. - I think there is a good chance of seeing Frederik in his navy uniform, for those who appreciate that... no one mentioned, no one left out, right Polyesco? ;)

At 10.00 M&F will attend a memorial service in Copenhagen Cathedral.

At 13.00 Joachim will give a speech at Skamlingsbanken. During WWII that was a popular place for communal singing. Communal singing became extremely popular during the Occupation. When people are seriously scared and concerned about the future they start to sing... To keep the fear away and to find comfort in those around you and also in this case singing songs that had a double meaning and that was a way to voice your protest and defiance in an albeit meek way. One of the most popular songs had a refrain saying: "ugræs er føget over hegnet = weed has blown over the fence" - It sure had!
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very important dates. Thanks in advance for all info
And yes, Frederik in uniform is an added bonus
 
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To keep it simple all the DRF commemorating 5th May covered in BB will be placed here.

Summary of several articles in Billed Bladet #19, 2015.
Written by Trine Larsen, Ulrik Ulriksen and Ken Richter.

The whole thing started in the evening of the 4th May, just before the message that the Germans had surrendered was heard 70 years ago. (*)
In Mindelunden QMII laid down a wreath at the memorial for the fallen resistance fighters. Flanked by honor guards from the Home Guard holding Danneborg as well as the Resistance Flag. (**)

The next day, on the 5th, at around 08.00 70 years to the minute after the actual surrender, Frederik wearing his full dress uniform maid down a wreath at the anchor in Nyhavn in central Cophagen, that is placed their in honor of the Danes sailors who died at sea during WWII.
A few surviving veterans were there as well and Frederik shook the hand of each of them and bowed slightly to them to show his respect.

Later, at 10.00, Mary joined him for a remembrance service in Copenhagen Cathedral. Frederik walked next Christian Eugen Olsen, who oversaw the events while Mary walked next to the 89 year old veteran, Jens Ege.
A number of representatives for the official Denmark as well as organizations and a few veterans were there as well. Frederik was visibly moved during the service. During the ceremony the veteran, Jens Ege, told his story.
When they left the church Mary said: "It was a beautiful service".

At the same time Joachim was in the town of Kolding in Jutland, where a ceremony was held for 83 resistance fighters from Southern Jutland who died during WWII. He gave a speech and said: "Never during the 70 years that have passed since, have there been so many conflicts as now. Wars and terror is part of the news of the day.
Our freedom was to them more precious than their own lives. During those five years light was forbidden and darkness had descended over the land. Their sacrifice has not been in vain and we bow our heads in gratitude".
Pupils from various schools then read out the names of the 83, and the Joachim placed a wreath at the monument there.

(*) Practically all Danes at that time listened to BBC news back in 1945, so did many of the by then some 250.000 German soldiers in Denmark. Very often in the homes of Danes they were billeted with or for whatever other reason visited!
The soldiers didn't fear the Resistance, there was a live and let live agreement between the Wehrmacht and the Resistance. They feared Nazis among themselves. There was a radar station near the town of Hanstholm in Jutland, manned by a six man team. One of them being a Nazi. One evening he couldn't find his comrades. It turned out the other five had tuned in the radar to listen to BBC. He turned them in and they were executed. It was a capital offense and they were caught red handed and confessed, so even in 1945 when the war was practically over, they were shot. - I can't help wondering what happened to the informer. If he was lucky his comrades (and superiors) would have made life hell for him. If he was unlucky he was "volunteered" for the front.

(**) A large version of the official armband the resistance fighters wore on the 5th May and the days after.
Variations of that armband was worn all over the country. Partly for identification but also as a protection in case it had been necessary with a general uprising. According the the Geneva Convention by wearing such an armband you become a legal combatant and if caught you are to be treated as a prisoner of war. Not wearing such an armband means you are a criminal, a terrorist or a spy.
The Home Guard was formed as a result of the Occupation and because many if not most resistance fighters in particular were bitterly disappointed that no politicians were brought to justice after the war. Even though the politicians during the war until 1943 had encouraged people to to co-operate with the occupiers and turn in resistance fighters. Not to mention the little detail about allowing and even encouraging volunteers to join the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front.
On the contrary, the firm PM in the interim government in 1945, appointed by the politicians themselves was Bull, who also happened to be a PM during the war... They might have been kicked out of office later on, but then the fear of Communists took over.
Anyway, the Home Guard was formed with Resistance fighters as the core, swearing never to repeat 9th April 1940 again! Never again would Denmark just surrender. Regardless of the politicians. And since the Home Guard kept their personal weapons and ammunition at home (actually until this year) they could and would fight on.

ADDED: Permit me to advertise for this interview with Princess Elisabeth. It's not uninteresting! http://www.theroyalforums.com/forum...nts-part-1-april-2004-a-2075.html#post1777071
 
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Kongehuset fejrer 100-året for kvinders stemmeret | Billed Bladet

Next week, the 5th June, is Constitution Day here in DK. It is also 100 years ago women were given the right to vote at a change to the Constitution.
That is to be celebrated big time with a televised show, where the DRF will attend. i.e. the QMII, M&F and J&M.
The show will be recorded on the 4th though but shown on DR1 on the 5th. And that means most outside DK should be able to see it.

- We don't have a national day, instead we have a Constitution Day. It's not a day of celebrations though, but a tradition for politicians to give speeches.
 
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its now on the DRF calendar, they have events the 4th and 5th
except for Henrik who will be in England does days

4 June 2015 H.M. Queen, Crown Prince Couple, D.K.H. Prince Joachim and Princess Marie and HRH Princess Benedikte participate in parliament and government's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Constitution pm. 20.15
June 5 2015 H.M. Queen, Crown Prince Couple, D.K.H. Prince Joachim and Princess Marie and HRH Princess Benedikte present at the anniversary meeting in Landstingssalen and upon receipt of the constitution procession in Rigsdagsgården the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Constitution pm. 10.00
 
"A nice but cold evening in Tivoli with TRH Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Isabella and Prince Christian to Queen's revival at the Pantomime Theatre"
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Spectacular curtain! I notice that the audience is seated - isn't it usual that an audience/congregation stand when the DRF enters or leaves? Or maybe they don't care so much about that in Denmark.
 
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"A nice but cold evening in Tivoli with TRH Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Isabella and Prince Christian to Queen's revival at the Pantomime Theatre"
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Spectacular curtain! I notice that the audience is seated - isn't it usual that an audience/congregation stand when the DRF enters or leaves? Or maybe they don't care so much about that in Denmark.
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Yes, when the show is on. :)

But when the DRF are out and about as private persons, they are pretty much left alone and most people do their best to pretend the DRF is not there at all.
 
polyesco said:
"A nice but cold evening in Tivoli with TRH Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Isabella and Prince Christian to Queen's revival at the Pantomime Theatre"
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Thanks for posting the great tweet, Polyesco :flowers:

Always nice with a father-children day. And farmor (grandmother) too? And what a beautiful coat Bella is wearing.

The performance they attend with grandmother Margrethes's scenography and costumes had re-premiere yesterday evening.

BB is ready with a lovely video of Frederik, Christian, Bella and Margrethe to yesterday's ballet:

VIDEO: Prinsesse Isabella og prins Christian med far og farmor i Tivoli | Billed Bladet

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