Next month Queen Margrethe II will celebrate her 85th birthday with King Frederik and Queen Mary to host the festivities at the royal family’s home, north of Copenhagen.
The Danish royal, who abdicated the throne in January 2024, will mark the milestone on April 16 at Fredensborg Palace.
It will be the second year in a row the celebrations have moved from Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, due to the change of throne.
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King Frederik X and Queen Mary will host celebrations for Queen Margrethe II’s 85th birthday in April. (Getty)
While Margrethe has previously celebrated her birthday at Fredensborg, there occasionally is another opportunity for the public to congratulate the former monarch in the capital.
This time, all the celebrations will take place at the royal family’s summer residence.
Frendensborg Palace is often described as Denmark’s Versailles and King Frederik and Queen Mary live in the Chancellery House, which is attached to the main palace, in the summer months.
King Frederik X, Queen Mary, Queen Margrethe and Princess Benedikte at Fredensborg Castle on her 84th birthday in 2024. (AP)
On April 16, the royal family will watch a performance by the Royal Life Guards band in the palace courtyard following a changing of the guard.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to see the royal family then.
Afterwards, the celebrations will move inside with King Frederik and Queen Mary to host a private lunch for Queen Margrethe.
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Fredensborg Palace is north of Copenhagen and home to the royal family during summer and most weekends. (Scott Barbour/Getty )
A birthday dinner will be held later that night attended by the royal family, their friends and those connected with the court.
Last year the queen’s birthday celebrations at Frendensborg were scaled back following a devastating fire in Copenhagen which destroyed Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange building, which dated to the 1600s.
The landmark’s iconic 56-metre dragon-tail spire collapsed during the blaze and King Frederik called the moment a “sad sight” and the building “an important part of our architectural cultural heritage”.
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The King and Queen were welcomed to Fredensborg for the first time since the change of throne on May 2, 2024. (Getty)
The King and Queen, along with Queen Margrethe and Princess Benedikte, made a low-key appearance on the steps of Fredensborg to mark the birthday.
The last time Queen Margrethe celebrated the occasion in Copenhagen was in 2023 for her 83rd when she was joined on the balconies of of Christian IX’s Palace at Amalienborg by her family.
The appearance came just months after four of Margrethe’s grandchildren were stripped of their royal titles
At the time, Margrethe stood side by side with then-Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary and their children Prince Christian, Princess Isabella, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine.
She was also joined by Prince Joachim and Princess Marie and Count Nikolai, Count Felix, Count Henrik and Countess Athena.
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Also next month, Princess Isabella will turn 18 with events to be held in Copenhagen and Aarhus.
The milestone birthday will also see the princess receive a major honour from her father King Frederik: the Order of the Elephant.
Princess Isabella will turn 18 on April 21, but the party is being brought forward by just over a week because her birthday falls across the Easter weekend.
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