Sunday, March 24, 2013

March 23: Opening of the Blue Planet

Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik, Prince Consort visited The Blue Planet yesterday, where Margrethe performed the official opening. The queen held at the event to speak and activated at the push of a button, sound and lighting system, and removed a canvas whereby the aquarium's largest tank, Oceaniet, was revealed.
Photos: konghuset.dk
Information: kongehuset.dk

Thursday, March 21, 2013

March 19: The Crown Princely Couple at a Book Launch

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attend the launching of former UN secretary Kofi Annan's memories 'A Life in War and Peace' at Den Sorte Diamant in Copenhagen.
Information: MyRoyals
Photos: MyRoyals

March 20: Crown Prince Frederik talking about Sport and Olympic Values

On March 20, Crown Prince Frederik visited the Uglegardsschool by Solrød Strand to talk about sports and the Olympic values.
Information: kongehuset.dk
Photos: kongehuset.dk

Sunday, March 17, 2013

News About Prince Joachim's Hand


Like I posted today Prince Joachim had a bandage over his hand. Apparently, Joachim had surgery on his hand and fingers on March 12, 2013.

The Danish royal court said that it's "...a hereditary disorder and it is the same condition the Prince Consort suffered from which resulted in him also undergoing surgery as well. Prince Joachim’s surgery went well and he is doing well."
Information: The Royal Correspondent
Photo: Old Photo

March 16: Queen Margrethe at the Funeral of Princess Lilian of Sweden

Yesterday, Queen Margrethe attended the funeral of Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland in Stockholm, Sweden.
Margrethe (3rd from the left)

March 16: Prince Joachim and Princess Marie attends the 2013 Studenterrevyen Together

Prince Joachim and Princess Marie attended the Student Revue 2013 at the Folketeatrets Studio Stage in Copenhagen. It also looks like Joachim injured his hand doing something.
Photos: MyRoyals
Information: MyRoyals

Friday, March 15, 2013

Day 5 of the Tour to Chile

Today was the last day of the tour to Chile. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary opened the Supercenter La Negra.
Today, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary were at the Inauguration of the solar Gaby mine.

News Regarding Queen Margrethe

It was announced by the Danish Royal Court that Queen Margrethe will attend the funeral of Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland on March 16, 2013. The funeral can be seen on the Swedish channel, STV.
Information: The Royal Correspondent

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Day 4 of the Tour to Chile

Crown Princess Mary visited the "Memory and Human Right" museum in Santiago.
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended a dinner at Club de la Unión.
Information: MyRoyals, StyleofMary
Photos: MyRoyals

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Day 3 of the Trip to Chile

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary visited the former house of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda at Isla Negra, a coastal area in central Chile.
Crown Princess Mary wore a pair of earrings from Marianne Dulong, bracelets from Marianne Dulong,  rings from Marianne Dulong. She wore a dress from Alberta Ferretti. She had a pair of shoes from Christian Louboutin, and a clutch from Carland Copenhagen.
Mary also wore this outfit to visit a school which has a 'Danish' children's library in Valparaiso.
At the end of the day, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attend the opening of an exhibition by Asger Jorn at the Museo de Bella Artes.
Mary wore a dress from Elise Gug, she wore a pair of earrings from Ole Lynggaard and a pair of shoes from Prada.

Photos: MyRoyals
Information: MyRoyals, StyleofMary

Monday, March 11, 2013

Day 1 and 2 of the Trip to Chile

Day 1
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary visited the Quebrada de Macul nature park in Santiago.
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended a dinner at Restaurant El Mesón Nerudiano.
Mary wore a Diane Von Furstenberg dress (worn on her trip to Australia in 2011), Mary wore a pair of red earrings. Mary also wore a turquoise and ruby bracelet. 
Day 2
 
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary met with the president of Chile and his wife.
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins monument.
Mary wore a Prada skirt, a pair of pink diamond earrings from Danish jewelers, Cenius & Back. Her nude clutch was from Prada as well. She wore 3 small bracelets, one of them was from Marianne Dulong.
Photos: MyRoyals
Information: MyRoyals, StyleofMary

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Prince Joachim, Princess Marie and Family visited EMAS

Prince Joachim, Princess Marie, Prince Nikolai, Prince Felix, and Prince Henrik all visited EMAS in Haderslev.

Offical Program for the Visit to Chile

Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess pays an official visit to Chile on 10-16th March 2013. The Royal Couple will include visits to Santiago, Valparaiso and northern Chile during the official visit.

March 10
Santiago

T.R.H. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess arrive at the airport in Santiago.

Nature Park Quebrada de Macul at 12.30
The Crown Prince Couple visit Nature Park Quebrada de Macul, which stands as an example of the landscape that once ruled the area outside Santiago. The Crown Prince Couple participate in a trek in the nature park.

Dinner for the Danish delegation at 20.00
The Danish ambassador in Chile Lars Steen Nielsen will host a dinner for Crown Prince Frederik and the Danish delegation at the restaurant El Meson Nerudiano.


 
March 11
Wreaths Laying at 10.50 Crown Prince visits and places wreath at the monument "Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins".
 

Visits by Santiago Mayor at 11.50
 
Crown Prince shall visit the Santiago mayor Carolina toha at Escuela Vicuña Mackenna and is presented with the city's key.

Private audience with President Couple at 13.00
Crown Prince shall audience with Chile's President, HE Sebastián Piñera and Mrs Cecilia Morel at the presidential palace La Moneda.
Official lunch by Minister for Foreign Affairs at 14.00
Chile's Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno holds official lunch for the royal couple at the Salon del Café, with the participation of the business delegation.

Grundfos Industrial Park at 18.40
Crown Prince inspect Grundfos Industrial Park in Colina and participate in the inauguration of Grundfos Chile's new machine for quality control of centrifugal pumps. During the inauguration will crown prince activate the machine, the machine will begin to assemble and install pumps. Then there is the managing director Guillermo Wehmann and reception.
 


March 12
Clínica Alemana at 9.40
Crown Prince visits with representatives of Danish companies in the health care private hospital Clínica Alemana, is nominated for Latin America's second best hospital. After presentation of the hospital and tour hospital for children, the President of Confederation of Danish Industries introduce the Danish competencies within the health sector.
Valparaíso

Children's library in Valparaíso at 10.40
Crown Princess visit with a Spanish school class the "Danish" children's library in Valparaíso, which 10 years ago was created by the Danish school teacher Anne Hansen. Announcing the launch of three new Danish children's books in Spanish, children library manager Anne Hansen read from one of the books and Crown Princess answer questions from school children. Crown Princess distribute copies of the book to school children and presented using guided tour of the library for a child container project.
Santiago
Isla Negra - Pablo Neruda's home at 12.10
Crown Prince visits by poet Pablo Neruda's home and presented to a Danish-Chilean poetry project where five Danish and five Chilean poets have worked together in Pablo Neruda's house on translation and publication of a Danish-Chilean poetry anthology. Following the visit, the royal couple see the poet's grave.
 

Maersk Container Industry at 15.25
Crown Prince inspect Maersk Container Industry in San Antonio, where a refrigerated container factory is under construction. The factory, which is the largest Danish investment in Chile to date and the first of its kind in South America, to serve the market throughout the continent, where there is great demand for food transport refrigerated. After inspection of a refrigerated container to Crown Prince Couple display the area where the plant will be erected.
Asger Jorn exhibition at 20.00
The Crown Prince Couple participate in the opening of Asger Jorn exhibition at the Museo de Bella Artes, Chile's national museum. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess will be presented exhibition, which consists of about 100 works by the Danish artist.
Read more Read more about the project on Culture Agency's website.

Cultural Dinner at the Museo de Bella Artes at 21.00
 
The Crown Prince Couple participate in cultural dinner with the Danish Embassy in Chile as host. The dinner aims to develop and promote dialogue and contact between the Danish and Chilean arts scene.

March 13
Opening of Business Seminar at 9.15
The Crown Prince is responsible for the opening of Business Seminar at Hotel Grand Hyatt attended by Danish and Chilean companies within the food and agro-industry, cleantech, health, aquaculture and fisheries, mining industry and the maritime sector.

Opening of "Human Rights Education = Human Rights in Education?" at 10.30
Crown Princess attends the opening of the Danish-Chilean conference on human rights education "Human Rights Education = Human Rights in Education?" Museo de la Memoria. The Danish Institute for Human Rights new international training materials will be launched at the conference. After opening the Crown Princess will be presented to the museum's permanent exhibition, which bear witness to the human rights violations that took place during the military dictatorship 1973-90.
Read more about the project on Culture Agency's website.

Lunch for business delegation at 13.30
The Crown Prince Couple participate in lunch with business delegation at Hotel Grand Hyatt. At lunch, presents Crown Prince HRH Prince Henrik's Medal of Honour for two Danish companies.

Visits by DIBAM - Chilean culture Board at 15.25
Crown Prince visits by Chilean culture Board - Dirección de Bibliotecas Archivos y Museos (DIBAM) - to witness the signing of a Danish-Chilean agreement on the exchange of museum curators. The agreement signed by Chilean side of the Director Magdalena Krebs, DIBAM and the Danish side by Anne Mette Rahbæk Warburg, Culture Agency.
Read more about the project on Culture Agency's website.

Architecture Symposium at15.50
Crown Prince attends an architecture symposium on DIBAM for Danish and Chilean architects who discusses cities in transformation. It is intended that the symposium should be the starting point for future cooperation between Denmark and Chile in architecture.
Read more about the project on Culture Agency's website.
 

Official dinner at 20.00
The Crown Prince Couple participate in the official dinner at the Club de la Unión held for invited Danish and Chilean guests on the occasion of the official visit to Chile. Nikolaj Koppel from Denmark and Chilean Carolina Ullrich is konferenciers during dinner, which among other street dancer Steen Koerner and The Royal Life Guards Brass Ensemble stands for entertainment.
 

Thursday 14th March 2013
Antofagasta
F.L. Smidth at 12.45
Crown Prince visits F.L. Smidth and is responsible for the official inauguration of its new "Super Center" for spare parts and customer service in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal at16.00
Crown Prince visits by the European Southern Observatory, Paranal, in Chile's desert area, 130 km south of Antafogasta and 2635 meters above sea level. Royal Couple will during the visit display the center's telescopes. At sunset, the royal couple have showcased survey telescope and with such Danish astronomers see and explore space.
Denmark has since 1966 been part of European cooperation ESO and supports the annual organization of the research.
 

March 15
Inauguration of solar, Gaby mine at 10.50
Royal Couple is responsible for initiation of Gaby-mine new solar systems that are under construction. The solar heating system is the world's largest and supplied by Danish Sunmark in cooperation with the Chilean partner Ellaima.

Information: kongehuset.dk
Photos: Unknown

Friday, March 8, 2013

March 7: Prince Joachim at the Diabetes Association Research Grant Distribution

HRH Prince Joachim attended as patron at Diabetes Association Research Grant Distribution at Hotel Marriott Copenhagen on March 7th, 2013.
Photos: kongehuset.dk
Information: kongehuset.dk

Princess Benedikte Visiting the Company: Pressalit of Fame

Princess Benedikte visited the company Pressalit of Fame, today.
Photos: kongehuset.dk
Information: kongehuset.dk

Monday, March 4, 2013

March 1: Princess Marie Visiting a Hospital

Princess Marie is a patron of the AIDS foundation. She visited the Department of Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital up in Jutland.