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Courtesy of Soren Steffen's Official Website(Polo Press.dk).

"1st May 2009-QMII and PG Henrik-Royal Yacht-Dannenbrog."

http://web.me.com/stefdnk/Royal2009/May09/...may01-2009.html

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"10th May 2009-QMII-Heering Ballet School."

http://web.me.com/stefdnk/Royal2009/May09/...may10-2009.html

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"20th May 2009-QMII-Brede Works Museum exhibition-opening."

http://web.me.com/stefdnk/Royal2009/May09/...y20-2009_2.html

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Thank you, Marine 2109 for the links.

Courtesy of TV2.DK and Google Translate.

http://vip.tv2.dk/article.php/Royal.html?menu

"Dronningen fejrede kunsten i Århus."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&...history_state0=

http://galleri.tv2.dk/index.php/category-G...851/page-1.html

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Prince Henrik, Prince Nikolai of Denmark And Prince Felix Visit Damningens Firestation

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - MAY 27: Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince Henrik of Denmark and Prince Nikolai of Denmark visit Damningens Firestation on May 27, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.a...entId=87975531#

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Courtesy of TV2.dk, BT.DK and Google Translate.

http://vip.tv2.dk/article.php/Royal.html?menu

"Royale brandmænd."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&...history_state0=

http://galleri.tv2.dk/index.php/category-G...250/page-1.html

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http://www.bt.dk/article/20090527/royalt/90527079/

"Se billederne: Felix og Nikolai legede brandmænd for en dag."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&...history_state0=

http://www.bt.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avi...7005&Ref=PH

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Thank you, Mitchell.

The Regent Couple's summercruise with Dannebrog has started.

The first stop is Nyborg on the Island of Funen.

Here is a gallery from Billed Bladet: http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...gentparret.aspx

I'm sure it will be covered on TV2 Fyn.

Anyway the weather is still nice and apart from some wind you can easily enjoy the day without wearing a jacket. But Rex and I, sitting here on the terrace, gnawing on a pigsear, can feel the weather is changing.

The nuatically inclined among you will notice that the sailor at the landing is armed with a cutlass. This is the navy and only navy officers carry sabres.

In pics #5&6 we see Queen Margrethe greeting some children, while a member of the Police Home Guard keep an eye on things. That would have been pretty unusual for Queen Margrethe pre-Mary, and pre-grandchildren.

In pics #7&8 we have the usual chariot ride, escorted by the Guards Hussars. 50 sabres in all = two small squadrons (eskadroner in DK).

And in pic #9, we have the mandatory girl music guard band.

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Thanks Marine2109 & Mitchell.

Here is an interesting gallery, for me at elast, of the Regent Couple inaugurating a new cannon, a six pounder at a redoubt outside Nyborg.

It's all a part of a celebration of a victory over Swedish forces in the 1600's

http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...non-humoer.aspx

It actually looks more like a heavy 36 pounder to me, but I haven't read any articles yet to comfirm my hunch. The cannon is a navy piece, which you can tell from it's particular mounting.

Pics 1-3 show fifers and drummers dressed in artillery uniforms from the Schleswigan wars in mid 1800's.

Pic 4: I wonder if this is the new six pounder? Since it has been decorated with a blue band. - It's a field piece. - Easy to tell from the wheels. ADDED: Yes, according to an article, this is the new cannon.

Pic 7: In the background you can see a very heavy navy piece. At least a 30 pounder, probably a 36 or 42 pounder. That is obvious from the particular mounting.

Pic 8-10: Preparing to fire the navy piece. The artillerymen are dressed in uniforms from just around the year 1800.

More later, gotta look at the articles.

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Here is a gallery of the Regent Couple's visit to Nyborg http://www.fyens.dk/article/1255974:Nyborg...r?image=1#image

More than 200 pics, as far as I can tell. The paper Fyens Stiftstidende has more galleries in their Nyborg edition: http://www.fyens.dk/nyborg

And Fyens Amtsavis has an article and pics: http://www.faa.dk/article/134306:Fyn---Oee...ronning-paa-job - The article is written with a glimmer in the eye. :lol:

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And a 10 minuttes segment from TV2 Fyn: http://www.tv2regionerne.dk/reg2005/?r=7

It provides an excellent picture of a standard visit to a town.

First we hear what the two main organisors of the visit have to say.

Then we follow the royals being recieved, salute, Guards Hussars, mayor speaking, visiting a chemical plant and the mandatory OAP home and in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the battle of Nyborg, with the firing of a cannon and all that.

Then the obligatory cultural event - acting on the redoubts outside Nyborg.

And finally a reception onboard Dannebrog in the evening.

Mary and Frederik will go through that drill many times in the future!

The last five minuttes of the segment is a debate about the vote for gender egality in the succession.

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I know, this is text-stuff and it doesn't involve neither Mary nor our Marie, so the interest is limited.

However this article simply deserved to be translated in full.

It provides an excellent narrative of a routine royal visit - and all the things that can occour during such a visit:

Translation of article in Fyns Amtsavis.

En dronning på job – A Queen on the job.

The Royal Yacht Dannebrog turn up at ceremonial quay in the old harbour – nine minutes too early! That doesn’t happen often. Queen Margrethe is not late – nor too early. (1)

On the quay, where thousands of Nyborg citizens bid welcome along with a long row of notabilities (2) and the Music Corps of the Royal Life Guards, there is quickly spreading the same sense of slightly annoyed confusion and fatalistic mood, that arise when mother-in-law shows up too early for the birthday party – and you stand there in the kitchen and stir the cocoa only wearing underwear, while the shirts is drying in the drier.

And just like mother-in-law Queen Margrethe is not affected. With the Prince Consort, Prince Henrik, two steps behind, she disembarks and starts to greet people behind the barrier.

The many journalists who follow the Regent Couple around in Nyborg have in advance been told clearly: The Queen does not want the journalists too close. The press will have to stay behind the special barriers, erected all around on the route. Prince Henrik, who for a part of the day has his own schedule, is more relaxed. Here are no barriers and you are free to talk to him.

The journalists discuss the mood of the Majesty. The more seasoned royal reporters whisper about a Queen, who sometimes can be so angry with the press that she deliberately turns away.

In the council hall where the Regent Couple is being received and welcomed to Nyborg, a part of the press corps has been allocated a corner only a couple of meters from the royals. The Queen seems reserved, while the photographers discreetly take their pictures.

Mayor Terndrup tries to break the ice with a cheerful remark:

- “There are certainly more present than usual for the council meetings…”.

The Queen shows no expression. At Nyborg castle – only three or four minutes walk from there, there is a somewhat hectic atmosphere. The new manager for the museum, Janus Møller Jensen, can’t find his speech. He does manage to find it before the Regent Couple shows up.

Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik stroll to the castle and the mood of the Majesty seems to be much better, when she is out among the people and there isn’t too much press close by.

The sun is shining; the redoubts show themselves from the most beautiful side and Margrethe wave, smile and nods to the many people along the route.

She also greets kindly the five musketeers from Zealand Musketeer Guard, who is lined up along the wall.

Prince Henrik is sitting and drumming his walking stick in the floor. He seems a bit impatient. Perhaps he is thinking of shrimps, Funen asparagus. Cheese and chicken in the old fashioned way with new potatoes, rhubarbs and cucumber salad. That’s the lunch that waits a little later at Hotel Nyborg Strand.

After the lunch the Regent Couple have each their schedule. The Prince Consort often visits a local brewery, but the courts have turned that down – “shouldn’t we for once try something else”.

Well. So that will be the contracting firm Munck Gruppen. So now Prince Henrik is standing and looking at a hole in the ground, while he resembles someone who is thinking: “Another day on the job…”.

Only when a little girl steps forward and presents the royal guest with a present, does the Prince quite spontaneously happy. The present is a little box with toy versions of building machines – for the grandchildren, of course. (3)

In the meantime the Queen is visiting Kommunekemi. (4) Even though she here will have to put away her fine red sunhat and put a hard hat on her royal head, the Queen does manage to slant the hat and maintain the elegance.

During the speech, which the manager of Kummunekemi gives in the noisy hall, the Queen loses interest and walks towards a table, where there are some test tubes with slags. The manager follows her perplexed, while he more and more feeble try to finish his speak. (5)

When the Majesty ask some questions the party really comes to life and the presentation of gifts go well, even though it’s the Queen’s turn to feel confused when her LiW give her a birdcage, to present to the manager. Piphuset (6) is an acknowledgement that the plant is led according to so-called PIP-principles, which stands for production, innovation and partnership.

The next stop for the Queen is the Care Centre Egevang. The residents of the ward Sansehaven are benched around the coffee table wearing their finest clothes and one of the nurses tells that the dress code for this day has been the topic for weeks. The Majesty does extraordinarily step outside the schedule, when she starts to greet the residents all the way around the coffee table. When she is halfway around the Majesty realise that it’s impossible to squeeze in between the many wheel chairs and abandons a bit gawky the attempt to be folksy. (7)

Then a (traditional Danish) song is sung and the Queen is presented a brooch in the shape of an oak-leaf in silver. When she is asked to sign the guest book, she resolutely pulls up her own pen in green plastic up from the bag.

The Queen and the Prince Consort meet again at Dronnings bastion (redoubt) and the fortifications. The Prince arrive first and a little while later the cortege of the Queen show up. Margrethe steps out and send her husband the warmest smile of the day.

The Regent Couple are to inaugurate a cannon. A big blue bow has been tied around the cannon and now the Queen and the Prince Consort must pull from each direction and loosen the bow. The two energetically pull the blue silk-ribbon. The Queen in particular is energetic and smiles quietly. No one knows what she thinks – but if it’s something like “that’s the kind of silly things royals have to do, and it is after all not every day I have to pull a bow on a cannon”, there is probably no one who will blame her for it.

Before the final event the Regent Couple is send out for a walk again. There is a ten minutes walk to the stage of the famous rampart actors, where a little more than 1.000 citizens from Nyborg along with the Regent Couple will see the amateurs display their skills.

The audience stand up and applause when the Regent Couple enter. Many have been here for way over an hour in order to get the best seats. Naturally two extra good chairs have been put forward for the royals, and it does seem like a heartily sigh escape from Her Majesty and an “ahh”, when she sits down on the soft pillow in the middle of the nature and the sea of people from Nyborg.

Written by Rikke Helweg & Carsten Olsen.

(1) A reference to that Her Majesty is always right on time, - no matter what the clock shows!

(2) Whose hands all needs to be shaken.

(3) Of course! But like with any other male, fathers and grandfather in particular, I also suspect that Henrik will find time to have a look at the vehicles.

(4) Kommunekemi is a chemical disposal plant.

(5) Get a move on! We have a schedule. The Regent Couple are more and more behaving like normal OAP’s. The world would have less silly conventions if we all did the same from time to time.

(6) In childish Danish a bird is called a ”pipfugl = chirp-bird”. So piphus = chirp-house in satirical Danish.

(7) Doing a Mary. Yes, Margrethe has been observing and learning.

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Well, it happened again.

Prince Henrik's dachshund, Evita, has bitten one of the guardsmen on duty. He suffered minor injuries to the leg. The incident took place at Fredensborg.

This unfortunately is the second time it has happened. Evita bit another guardsman last year.

According to the articles Evita and the other dachshunds were playing on the lawn behind Fredensborg, when it happened.

There are calls among several politicians for putting down Evita. - That must be seen in the wake of an intense debate about the behaviour of socalled muscle dogs, like Pittbulls and similar dogs. There have been focus on quite a number of incidents recently where such dog have attacked other animals, dogs in particular. Many of which have been severly maimed, some killed.

There is a call for strenghtening the legislation regarding dogs, in particular dogs which have been bred for fighting. Either for banning these dogs altogether or the very least forcing the owners to keep these dogs in a leash when walking in public.

There are also calls for putting down all such dogs if they bite anyone or anything.

In my opinion it's actually some of the owners who should be put down! There are a number of people who shouldn't own a dog in the first place, and certainly not a dog of these breeds.

I really can't see why anyone would want a muscle dog as a domestic pet. I can understand it if you would want a muscledog as a guarddog in a high crime area, but you don't need one on the streets of DK. Among other people and other animals. So I say, ban them.

What happens now is that if your dog bites anyone, you will get a fine and the dog may be put down.

We own a dog ourselves and if he bites anyone whithout a very good reason, he will be put down. Because once he has gotten away with biting another person once, there is every chance he will do it again. And with two children and the children of other people around all the time, we are not prepared to take that risk.

I don't blame Evita, I blame Prince Henrik. If he didn't want to put Evita down the first time she bit a guardsman, it was his responsibility to ensure that the dog was kept under control and as such could not bite other people. If it happens again, you have failed as a dog owner and the dog ought to be confiscated and put down.

I'm sure our news diggers will find articles about the incident.

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Courtesy of BT.dk, Fyens.dk and Google Translate.

http://www.fyens.dk/article/1256649:Indlan...nd-skal-aflives

"Prins Henriks gravhund skal aflives."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&...history_state0=

http://www.bt.dk/article/20090604/royalt/90604005/

"Prins Henriks gravhund amok - garder fik benet bidt til blods."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&...history_state0=

http://www.bt.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avi...4003&Ref=PH

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http://www.bt.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avi...mp;profile=9000

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:) TV2/MIDT-VEST http://www.tvmidtvest.dk

Map, photos, videos and artciles : http://www.tvmidtvest.dk/sites/www.tvmidtv...tpar/index.html

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Hund overfalder garder

Debatten om agressive hunde har ramt Kongehuset. . Prins Henriks gravhund Evita overfaldt helt umotiveret en garder, som efterfølgende måtte på hospitalet og have en stivkrampevaccination. Flere partier kræver nu hunden aflivet.

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Well, it happened again.

Prince Henrik's dachshund, Evita, has bitten one of the guardsmen on duty. He suffered minor injuries to the leg. The incident took place at Fredensborg.

This unfortunately is the second time it has happened. Evita bit another guardsman last year.

According to the articles Evita and the other dachshunds were playing on the lawn behind Fredensborg, when it happened.

There are calls among several politicians for putting down Evita. - That must be seen in the wake of an intense debate about the behaviour of socalled muscle dogs, like Pittbulls and similar dogs. There have been focus on quite a number of incidents recently where such dog have attacked other animals, dogs in particular. Many of which have been severly maimed, some killed.

There is a call for strenghtening the legislation regarding dogs, in particular dogs which have been bred for fighting. Either for banning these dogs altogether or the very least forcing the owners to keep these dogs in a leash when walking in public.

There are also calls for putting down all such dogs if they bite anyone or anything.

In my opinion it's actually some of the owners who should be put down! There are a number of people who shouldn't own a dog in the first place, and certainly not a dog of these breeds.

I really can't see why anyone would want a muscle dog as a domestic pet. I can understand it if you would want a muscledog as a guarddog in a high crime area, but you don't need one on the streets of DK. Among other people and other animals. So I say, ban them.

What happens now is that if your dog bites anyone, you will get a fine and the dog may be put down.

We own a dog ourselves and if he bites anyone whithout a very good reason, he will be put down. Because once he has gotten away with biting another person once, there is every chance he will do it again. And with two children and the children of other people around all the time, we are not prepared to take that risk.

I don't blame Evita, I blame Prince Henrik. If he didn't want to put Evita down the first time she bit a guardsman, it was his responsibility to ensure that the dog was kept under control and as such could not bite other people. If it happens again, you have failed as a dog owner and the dog ought to be confiscated and put down.

I'm sure our news diggers will find articles about the incident.

I find it quite astonishing that a large guardsman could be bitten by a small dachshund! This must be serious or it would not have been reported. My mind is full of questions....What was the guardsman doing to the dog? Was it the same guardsman that was bitten time? How do the guardsmen have access to the dog? A very bizarre story indeed! :)

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