Friday April 16th, marked Queen Margrethe II's 70th birthday. Every year on her birthday, the Queen steps out onto her balcony of Amalienborg at noon and waves to the people in the courtyard. Since this was an even year birthday, she rode in a horse-drawn carriage from the Amalienborg Palace to City Hall on Strøget (the walking street in Copenhagen).
Crowds trying to get into the Palace courtyard to see the Queen... it was packed! I couldn't get through!
Danish flag :)
Danes like to use the Danish flag to celebrate!
Holding a Danish flag under the Queen's birthday sign!
Getting ready for the Queen to pass in her carriage...
Police! The Queen must be close!
The Queen is next!
Queen of Denmark and her husband, Henrik, the Prince Consort of Denmark!!!
She went by so fast!
Fountain near my school that had golden apples in it for the Queen's birthday!
It might be hard to see, but on the left hand side of the statue at the top of fountain, there is one of the golden apples being pushed up by the force of the fountain water! This was the craziest tradition! No one ever takes the golden apples... I guess out of respect to the royal family? I'm not sure but there is no way those apples would stay there all day if this were in a tradition in another country.... especially the US!
Regardless, it was so cool to see the Queen so close and experience such a unique Danish tradition!
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