Word: amalienborg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
Kings Gustaf and Christian of Sweden and Denmark met face to face, kissed cheek to cheek for the first time in six years, at a two-family get-together at Denmark's Amalienborg Castle. Sweden's aging Gustaf (87)-whose granddaughter is married to King Christian's son-went by destroyer to Copenhagen to visit his 74-year-old royal friend. Then the royal in-laws of both houses got together for a group picture to make it official...
...other kings fared better. Five years after Hitler's motorized armies swarmed into Denmark, King Christian X emerged from his self-imposed retirement at Amalienborg and returned to his capital. The long night of German occupation was over...
...committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...