General News about Frederik, Mary and Family Part 20: December 2023 -

Where these horses normally live … would be different horses now, I took these photos in 2014.
You may have seen photos of Mary riding here at different times.
If you zoom in you can pick out Tivoli in the background.
From the tower of Christiansborg, ground level and looking back at the tower where you can see a few people and see how large the tower is.

Together with Queen Mary the Amalienborg cabinetmaker's workshop have "designed and carved a dining table from 16 different types of wood, representing a harmonious fusion of nature, craftsmanship and history", it can currently be seen at the design days "3daysofdesign" in Copenhagen.

Together with Her Majesty the Queen, Amalienborg Snedkerværksted has worked for a long period on a dining table that, with a unique mix of wood types and history, tells about Denmark, the Royal House and the life of the trees used The table top is veneered on the front with squares of surplus pieces of wood from the Royal House's wood store, which would not normally be suitable for furniture production due to their limited size and quality. The squares are surrounded by a frieze in walnut from Fredensborg Slotspark and the plate stands on a base of 200-year-old naval oak from Grib Skov, which was sown with a view to building new wooden ships after the Battle of the Nest. The table is 210 centimeters in diameter and with additional plates the table measures 450 centimeters.A branch from the large sycamore tree on Gråbrødre Torv, which broke off in 1999, boxwood from Château de Cayx, fallen beech from Fredensborg Palace Park and elm from Kongens Nytorv are among the 16 different types of wood included in the newly manufactured table, which from today will be exhibited at the design days 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, which will take place on the 12th-14th June 2024 in Copenhagen.

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In the info on Kongehuset it says "The table top is veneered on the front with squares of the 16 different types of wood, each of which is cut to the dimensions 73.3 x 73.3 x 5 millimeters. The types of wood include two types of oak, elm, sycamore, golden rain, walnut, ash, hornbeam, hawthorn, ivy, yew, apple, cherry, boxwood and birch, as well as pieces from a Huon Pine, which tells of the Queen's upbringing in Tasmania. "
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I love this concept. Wood from trees from Australia, France and of course Denmark. I love how the link gives us more info on the type of trees.

More on the 3 days of design conference

What a great idea and the table is beautiful. (..)

Mary visited the Snedkerlaug exhibition in connection with the design festival 3daysofdesign.


"The idea to create a dining table out of surplus wood from the Kongehuset's carpentry workshop emerged in connection with the transformation of an old workshop building into as sustainable annex as possible at Fredensborg Castle.
Fortunately, the skilled cabinetmakers from the Royal House's carpentry workshop were on board with the idea. A few days ago, they put the finishing touches to work on a new dining table. The tabletop's Tasmanian pine, hornbeam from Fredensborg Castle Park and 14 other types of wood tell stories from near and far.
The dining table is exhibited in distinguished company at Copenhagen's Snedkerlaug in connection with the design festival 3daysofdesign. Today I had the pleasure of visiting Snedkerlauget's exhibition, which shows how much Denmark has to offer when it comes to innovation and quality in Danish carpentry."

More on the table, which Mary had some inputs into

That is a really beautiful table...made even more beautiful because of the history behind the materials used. Such a wonderful example of using leftover materials to create a usable piece of furniture. I love the different types of wood used and their backstory, plus including pine from Tasmania is lovely.

It must be absolutely wonderful to be a royal carpenter!
Imagine that every day you go to work you are allowed to do your very best. - No cutting corners, no savings, no cheaper materials - and I imagine, no draconian deadlines.

Muhler said:

It must be absolutely wonderful to be a royal carpenter!
Imagine that every day you go to work you are allowed to do your very best. - No cutting corners, no savings, no cheaper materials - and I imagine, no draconian deadlines.

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And I love how the DRF highlights their work, especially around Christmas with the elf visiting various works

polyesco said:

And I love how the DRF highlights their work, especially around Christmas with the elf visiting various works

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I love that too! The Digital calendar is great and how they include the kids and the employees too. I also like how when they post these things, it is no fuss, no muss.

King Frederik and the twins have kitted up for the match tonight between DK and Slovenia.

Vincent and Josephine change a little bit every day now!

Wonderful picture taken by Mary. Lovely to see their faces.

What a great photo of King Frederik and the twins. I agree with Muhler, they change literally everyday now! I also love how the King and Queen always have made sure to include all the kids equally in posts like these. Perfect to have the twins in this photo as they are the two that play on teams. Love that Mary takes these photos too. And a nice simple message of support for the team!

Have M&F travelled to Sweden for the Queen’s 80th party?

A nice greeting from the Royal Couple in honor of Greenland's national day.
Nice pics!

"Inuiatut Ullorsiornissinni pitties
Greenland is celebrating National Day today. On this occasion, we send our warmest greetings to the people of Greenland.
We both have unforgettable memories from Greenland, and we are looking forward to revisiting that beautiful country and its hospitable people in a week.
The royal couple."

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polyesco said:

A nice greeting from the Royal Couple in honor of Greenland's national day.
Nice pics!

"Inuiatut Ullorsiornissinni pitties
Greenland is celebrating National Day today. On this occasion, we send our warmest greetings to the people of Greenland.
We both have unforgettable memories from Greenland, and we are looking forward to revisiting that beautiful country and its hospitable people in a week.
The royal couple."

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Lovely message and great photos! Such a wonderful personal connection they both feel to Greenland with Frederik doing the Sirius expedition and the work Mary has done via The Mary Foundation. It is not just because Greenland is part of the Danish commonwealth. Looking forward to their long visit next week.

"From Saturday, the public will have access to His Majesty the King's Handbook in Christian VIII's Palace at Amalienborg for the first time.
The other day, Their Majesties the King and Queen visited the special library, which was founded in 1746 by Frederik V., and which contains the Danish monarchs' private collections of books, manuscripts, maps, pictures, photos and music. The library is located in the same mansion as the Amalienborg Museum.
Since Queen Margrethe's accession to the throne in 1972, the library, which until January this year was called the Queen's Hand Library, has also functioned as a subject and research library, but with the opening, Amalienborg Museum's guests can now also gain a unique insight into the importance of literature and learning in the Royal House over time
The King's Hand Library, which is part of the King's Collection, will be accessible in two ways: On weekends and during Danish school holidays, the Hand Library's study room will be open to all visitors to the Amalienborg Museum. On weekdays, there will continue to be access only by special agreement for professionals and researchers."

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Is he trying to kill me? LOL

Sister Morphine said:

Is he trying to kill me? LOL

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Yes, yes he is! The second picture is

Sister Morphine said:

Is he trying to kill me? LOL

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And he's in uniform today.

Another video from Mary from their wild garden, this time with bees

"It was recently brought to my attention that wild bees need breaks and prefer not to fly too far to find food. In addition, they may have difficulty finding suitable habitats in the modern landscape.
That is why we have opened a bee hotel for our local bees. The hotel provides the bees with a safe place to nest and breed, thus contributing to preserving and increasing the number of wild bees. The wild bees are important for maintaining pollination and biodiversity.
PS: I had a bit of difficulty capturing the 'busy bee' on film
H.M. The queen."

Izzie said:

And he's in uniform today.

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Oh, believe me. I saw. LOL. I'm a sucker for the Naval uniform, but really, any uniform on him is acceptable.

A lovely message from the Royal Couple on the Faroe Island's national day, with lovely photos from prior visits.
"Today is the Faroe Islands' national holiday ólavsøka. It is a day that brings together Faroese people both at home and abroad, and on this occasion we send our warmest greetings to the Faroese people
We are both looking forward to visiting the country next year. The North Atlantic islands with their magnificent nature and hospitable population are always a unique and exceptional experience.
The royal couple"

Now ladies - and gentlemen(?). Queen Mary looks smashing in her Faeroese dress, but how about King Frederik?
Personally I think that if you go traditional, you go all in. His attire, judging from his shoes, his breeches and the many buttons is from around 1750 +/- 25 years. The buttons and shoe buckles are (or at least used to) made of silver. It was both a way to flaunt your wealth and a way to store your fortune.
You wore such dress at special occasions and sometimes to church.
However, just about that time Barbary Corsairs occasionally raided the islands (and Iceland as well) looking for slaves for the markets in North Africa. (Some one million Europeans were sold as slaves in the 16 and 1700s.) A man dressed like that would have been a bonus for the pirates!
First they would have tried to get a ransom. (Unless you were poor of course.)
- That was all well organized. You could get insured. Sailors were often insured by the shipping company and travelers aboard ships sailing in the dangerous waters were usually insured as well. In the sense that the Corsairs send a note to their middleman that we have so and so and demand a X amount for him, or her or their child. The middleman then contacted the insurance company in this case in Copenhagen. And that was the start of negotiations and after a period everybody agreed on a sum and the captive was released. That could take perhaps a year.
However, if they could not agree the captive was sold as a slave and vanished somewhere in North Africa.
Or the captive died in captivity.
Or in quite a number of cases the captive converted to Islam and was no longer a slave. Some had quite an illustrious career.

But didn't the European countries do something about it, you ask?
Nah, not really. The European countries couldn't even agree what day it was, literally (some used the Justinian calendar other the Gregorian calendar). Sometimes someone (including DK) send a few warships down there. But the coast of North Africa is pretty long! And full of often well defended hiding places, so such an expedition usually resulted in nothing and it was expensive! Much cheaper to ransom some of the captives - and also pay tribute to pirates.
The Corsair raids fizzled out towards the latter part of the Napoleonic wars, there were simply too many warships all over the place, all of them more than willing to blast a Corsair galley out of the water as a nice little diversion.
The last recorded Corsair raid in Europe that I know too place in southern France in the 1830s.

USA didn't want to pay tribute to no Corsairs so the send an expedition to what is today Libya. Those of you who are familiar with the Marine Corps hymn will know the reference: From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...
It is somewhat questionable how much effect that expedition had and in any case the age of North African piracy was ending.

Anyway, there is at least one record of a woman returning to the Faeroe Islands after having been taken captive years earlier. I can't remember the details off hand though.
ADDED: It happened that someone bought a bunch of Christian slaves (good brownie-points with God) and released them. Perhaps she got home that way?

Thank you Muhler, his attire was perfect and it suits him.
I'll add his hat too and two similar dressed sons to the mix

His Majesty the King has today sent the following congratulations to the new President of Iceland, Her Excellency Halla Tómasdóttir

"On the occasion of your inauguration on 1 August as President of Iceland, I take this opportunity to send my heartiest congratulations and my best wishes to you and the Icelandic people.
Our two countries have a strong shared past and present, and I look forward to building on this community and the warm relations between our countries and people. The Queen and I look forward to receiving you later this year.
Frederik R. "

polyesco said:

His Majesty the King has today sent the following congratulations to the new President of Iceland, Her Excellency Halla Tómasdóttir

DET DANSKE KONGEHUS 🇩🇰 on Instagram: "Hans Majestæt Kongen har i dag sendt følgende lykønskning til Islands nye præsident, Hendes Excellence Halla Tómasdóttir 🇮🇸"

18K likes, 108 comments - detdanskekongehus on August 1, 2024: "Hans Majestæt Kongen har i dag sendt følgende lykønskning til Islands nye præsident, Hendes Excellence Halla Tómasdóttir 🇮🇸".

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"On the occasion of your inauguration on 1 August as President of Iceland, I take this opportunity to send my heartiest congratulations and my best wishes to you and the Icelandic people.
Our two countries have a strong shared past and present, and I look forward to building on this community and the warm relations between our countries and people. The Queen and I look forward to receiving you later this year.
Frederik R. "

H.M. Kongen sender lykønskning til Islands præsident

Hans Majestæt Kongen har i dag sendt følgende lykønskning til Islands Præsident, Hendes Excellence Halla Tómasdóttir: H.M. Kongen sender lykønskning til Islands præsident

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Hmmm..could that mean Iceland could be the first incoming state visit for their majesties?

Izzie said:

Hmmm..could that mean Iceland could be the first incoming state visit for their majesties?

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That would be great!

It shouldn't be a problem arranging such a state visit, even on a short notice.

The ties are already friendly and there are no controversies and none of the parties will be offended by a minor mistake.
The cultural ties between DK and Iceland are strong. Well, actually mainly between Iceland and Norway, but as both Norway and Iceland were de facto provinces in the Danish realm (even if it was officially a dual monarchy) for centuries, Icelanders who wanted to have a career or Icelandic scholars inevitably tended to end up in Copenhagen. And many precious Icelandic artifacts and scripts ended up in DK as well. I believe most of the more important have been returned by now.
Iceland is of course interested in tourism and exporting not least fish. Also Iceland has a lot of know-how in regards to geothermal energy, something DK is very seriously exploring right now. And a number of Icelanders study and work in DK.
I'm not sure what we export to Iceland, but surely there are quite a few things.
But crucially for Iceland, DK is the gateway to EU. Norway is an affiliate of EU but not a member and after Brexit, Scotland, the Shetlands and Orkneys which are otherwise closely connected to Iceland are no longer such a gateway. (IIRC the Orkneys were a wedding present to James I.)

So there would be a considerable Icelandic interest in a state visit - and also because the Icelandic President too needs a practice run to a benevolent country or two as well.

Crown Prince Christian did not stay a long time in Paris with his Father King Frederik . I suppose his Mother was Regent.