Prince frederik and princess mary latest news

Frederik, 55, has been heir to the throne since the age of three and now that baton will pass to his and Mary's year-old son, Prince Christian.

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The teenager celebrated his milestone birthday with a lavish gala dinner last October and will assume the title of Crown Prince of Denmark on 14 January. But what else do we know about Prince Christian and his younger siblings? He was named Christian to continue the Danish royal tradition of monarchs naming their first-borns sons either Christian or Frederik.

At the age of two, he carried out his first official engagement with his late grandfather Prince Henrik at Copenhagen Zoo. Christian undertook his first official engagement when he attended the opening of a new elephant house at the Copenhagen Zoo with his grandfather, Prince Henrik in In , Prince Christian was pulled out of boarding school, Herlufscholm, after a damning documentary alleged a culture of bullying and violence at the institution.

He is now in the final year of his secondary education at Ordrup Gymnasium in Gentofte. Queen Margrethe hosted a glittering white-tie gala dinner at Christiansborg Palace for her grandson Christian's 18 th birthday last October, with foreign royals in attendance.

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Frederik and Mary welcomed their daughter Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe at Rigshospitalet on 21 April , making her the first girl born into the Danish royal family since the birth of her great aunt, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, in Frederik and Mary's twins celebrated their 13 th birthday on Monday 8 January. The twins were baptised in April at the chapel of the Church of Holmen.

As the younger sibling, Josephine wore a christening gown found among her late great-grandmother Queen Ingrid's belongings, making her the first child of a future Danish monarch not to wear the family's traditional christening gown — which was worn by her twin brother. Magazine User Data Protection Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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