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State visit to Finland
King Frederik and Queen Mary made a state visit to Finland on March 4th-5th, 2025. At this occasion, the King received the Collar to the Finnish Order of the White Rose; the King had - as Crown Prince - received the
Grand Cross of the order in 1994. The Queen received the Grand Cross of the same order during the Finnish state visit to Denmark in 2013.
Read more on the website of the Royal House (in Danish).
The King's great-grandfather, King Christian X, received the Grand Cross and Collar of the Order of the White Rose when Regent of Finland Mannerheim visited Denmark in February 1919. THe order had recently been instituted
on January 28th, 1919.
Read more about this visit and other Danish-Finnish phaleristics in the OMSD Journal no. 58 (2022).
State visit to France
The King and Queen's state visit to France took place on March 31st to April 2nd. On the first day of the visit, an exchange of orders took place and both the King and the Queen were awarded the Grand Cross of the French
Legion of Honour.
Read more on the website of the Royal House (in Danish).
The first Danish king to receive the Grand Cross was Frederik VI in 1808. Four years later, Crown Prince Christian (later King Christian VIII) was also awarded the Grand Cross.
When Prince Frederik (later King Frederik VII)
married Princess Wilhelmine in 1828, he too received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
Prince Christian (later King Christian IX) traveled to Paris in 1858 to pay tribute to Emperor Napoléon III, who had survived an
assassination attempt the same year. On that occasion he received the Grand Cross of the order.
Crown Prince Frederik (later King Frederik VIII) was awarded the Grand Cross in 1866 as a symbol of the deep respect and
unwavering friendship between France and Denmark.
Following the same pattern, Christian X received the Grand Cross in 1891 as Crown Prince.
Frederik IX was awarded the Grand Cross in 1917 as Crown Prince. Queen Ingrid
was awarded the Grand Cross when the royal couple visited France in 1950.
Queen Margrethe II received the Grand Cross when she and Prince Henrik visited France in 1978, and the Price was awarded the Grand Cross of the French
National Order of Merit at the same occasion. In 1984 Prince Henrik received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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