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Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
Last week Musician-Prince Frederik gave way to an old passion, strode to the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House during a rehearsal, conducted the orchestra through the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and the Overture to Wagner's Meistersinger...
...Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, who was Sweden's pretty, blonde Princess Ingrid...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
Soldier Son. On the spring evening 25 years ago when Christian was called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...