Léonie Sonnings Music Award

Friday, April 26th

It has already been a busy month for the Crown Prince Couple and on Friday they attended yet another event. The couple arrived to DR Concert Houser in Copenhagen to attend the presentation of Léonie Sonnings Music Award.

Léonie Sonnings Music Foundation goes back to the 60s. Each year the foundation reward an annual honorary award which is given to an international recognized composer, musician, conductor or singer. With award comes DKK 600,000.

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary arrived to the concert house full of energy and with a huge smile on their faces. After a royal welcoming, the couple found their seats on the balcony. It was an evening with music, honor and smiles. This year Léonie Sonnings Music Award was handed over to composer Hans Abrahamsen for his new version of 'Let me tell you' of Ofelia's story from Hamlet (an artistic work by Shakespeare). Congratulations to Hans Abrahamsen.

Day of Research 2019

Wednesday, April 24th

Again this year did the Crown Princess attend the launch of Day of Research 2019 taking place in Dyrehaven in Klampenborg. For quit some years the Crown Princess has participated the annual national science festival.

Crown Princess Mary was warmly welcomed by Danish Minister of Education and Research, Tommy Ahlers. The two of them have met on a few previously occasions prier to the launch of the Day of Research 2019 in Klampenborg.

Day of Research aim to focus on how research and innovation are able to solve society's challenges. This year the festival worked with sounds. "The Sound of Denmark" title the festival. The Sound of Denmark aims to collect sound recordings from the Danish landscape and gather into a database, which in the long term must form the basis for, among other things, scientific analyzes. Crown Princess Mary and Minister of Education and Research Tommy Ahlers also made their own sound recordings from the surroundings near by.

Along with pupils participating the projects the Crown Princess also had lots of fun with different sounds.

Queen Margrethe's 79th birthday

Tuesday, April 16th

Queen Margrethe celebrated her 79th birthday at Marselisborg Castle in Aarhus. She was joined by the Crown Prince Couple and their four children on the big day. It is not the first time she celebrates her birthday at Marselisborg. It also happened in 2006, here, and in 2014, here. Five years ago Prince Joachim and Princess Marie, and their children also celebrated the Queen. That was not the case this year.

Many Danes showed up at castle in Aarhus to congratulate the Queen on the 79th birthday. Seems like she was in a splendid mood. Surrounded by her family, celebrated by the public and in perfect spring weather I imagine it was a wonderful day.

Both Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary and their four children were happy faces. Prince Christian, Princess Isabella, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine received flowers from a few of the attendances and proudly handed them over to their grandmother.

Let's all congratulate the Queen and wish her and her family all the best.

'Fashioned from Nature'

Friday, April 12th

Just a couple of days ago the Crown Princess visited four different companies that work with sustainability on a daily basis, here. On Friday she arrived to The National Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen to attend the opening of Fashioned from Nature. It is an exhibition focusing on the use of nature in the fashion industri and what consequences there are from the way of production and society's consumer habits.

Crown Princess Mary showed great interest in everything exhibited. She was given a guided tour around the exhibition and told about the creations. More than four hundred years of fashion history are gathered at one place. The Crown Princess could enjoy dresses and more, from both Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Jean Paul Gaultier, etc. from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, who have lent some of their huge collection to the National Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen.

After having attended the opening of Fashioned from Nature at The National Museum of Natural History, the Crown Princess drove to Dragør to celebrate hairdresser Søren Hedegaards 40th anniversary, here.

The previous evening, on April 11th, Crown Princess Mary and a friend of hers (Ellen Hillingsøe) attended a performance at Betty Nansen Theatre preformed by Sort Samvittighed, here.