After months without meeting at an official event, Frederick Queen Margaret, who retains the title after her abdication, also attended this annual event that she had presided over until this year, but, as protocol dictates, this time it was the former queen who walked behind her son and her wife.
The dinner was also the first official event in which Frederick X and Mary Donaldson were seen together after the celebrations for the proclamation of the new Danish king. It was on January 14 when the new kings began their reign with a kiss from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, and, a week later, on January 21, they were seen together for the last time at the celebration service at the Cathedral of Aarhus on the occasion of the change of throne.
For the event, the Danish kings wore military uniforms with stripes and the blue band from which hangs the insignia of the Order of the Elephant, the highest distinction of the Kingdom of Denmark. The couple had already been photographed last Tuesday during a private trip to visit Roskilde Cathedral, north of the island of Zealand, where the remains of a good number of Danish kings and queens rest.
Since the friendship of Federico X and the Mexican Genoveva Casanova became known, much has changed the life of Queen Margarita’s son. The previous Danish monarch announced her abdication on New Year’s Eve and fourteen days later Denmark had a new king. Despite Margarita having stated that hers was a lifelong duty and her intention to die in office, the Danish queen decided to step aside, possibly to be able to clear the way in life for the new king when he was going through his darkest hours. low.
According to the magazine ¡Hola! Last week, the Danish monarch would have visited Madrid again three weeks ago, a new visit by the king to Spain after the scandal that did not leave graphic evidence and that was not on the official agenda of Frederick X.
