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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe to attend funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Margrethe of Denmark, along with heir to the throne Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, are to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on Monday.

Published: 13 September 2022 16:32 CEST
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe to attend funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Denmark's Queen Margrethe, now the world's longest serving monarch and the only female reigning monarch in Europe, will attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Photo:Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix

The Danish palace confirmed Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary will attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in a statement published on its website on Tuesday.

Queen Elizabeth II died last Thursday at Balmoral, her beloved country house in Scotland, aged 96, after 70 years on the throne. She was the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Tributes have been paid from across the world since her death, including from Denmark.

Queen Margrethe, who reached her 50th jubilee in January this year and marked it with muted celebrations last weekend, is now the world’s longest-serving living monarch.

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place at Westminster Abbey.

Head of state from across the world have been invited, with US President Joe Biden among those to have confirmed their attendance.

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POSTNORD

Denmark’s new King Frederik X to get his first stamp

The Danish postal company Postnord will today begin selling the first stamp featuring King Frederik X, issuing it to mark the King's birthday on May 26th.

Published: 22 May 2024 09:08 CEST
Denmark's new King Frederik X to get his first stamp

“At PostNord we have a long and proud tradition of paying tribute to the new rulers in our stamps, and are therefore very pleased to now be able to issue a stamp with the King to mark the change of throne in Denmark,” Andreas Brethvad, Director of Communications at PostNord, said in a press release.

The company will begin selling the stamp on its website today, Wednesday, 22 May, and it will be available in different versions on Greenland and the Faroe Islands, in collaboration with the Greenlandic postal service Tusass and the Faroese Posta.

The picture of Frederik used for the stamp was taken by Steen Evald, who has been the official photographer of the Danish royal family for over a decade, with the stamp’s design, which includes Frederik’s monogram and the name of the country where the stamp is issued, then carried out by Ella Clausen, in collaboration with PostNord’s design manager Martin Pingel. 

This is not the first time Frederik has appeared on a stamp. He appeared on stamps as a very small child, on his 18th birthday, at his mother Queen Margrethe II’s jubilee, at his wedding with Queen Mary, in a special collection issued for the charitable foundation he runs together with Queen Mary.

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