European royals celebrate Danish queen’s birthday
Below: Royals pose for a picture in front of the Fredensborg Palace in Copenhagen as they gather for Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s 70th birthday celebrations on April 16, 2010. Left to right: the Netherlands’ Crown Princess Maxima and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander; Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon; Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and her fiance, Daniel Westling; and Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik. (Photo: REUTERS/Jens Norgaard Larsen/Scanpix Denmark. Photo provided by PicApp)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO QUEEN MARGRETHE.
LONG LIVE THE DANISH KINGDOM!
Happy birthday Queen Margrethe, I hope you had a wonderful day and so very many more.
I am half Danish, and when I was 13 years old (I’m now 59), I lived with my grandparents in Kollund by the Flensburg fjord. I am very proud of my grandfather, he was a Danish resistance fighter and had to go into the underground during WWII because he was in the Danish police force. My uncle Knud Simmosen was in college at the time and was hunted by the Germans because of an issue that he was involved with and had to escape to Sweden in a sailboat. He returned to Denmark as a resistance fighter during Denmark’s liberation. As you can see I am very proud of my Danish heritage.