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...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...
Like a businessman at a luncheon table, Frederik spoke of a king's activities: signing of appointments and laws every day, weekly conferences with Premier and Foreign Minister, fortnightly public audiences, state councils at least once a month. He added: "If there is something else, they just phone me." The radio reporter interrupted...
...million small ears overheard King Frederik IX of Denmark admonishing his nine-year-old daughter Margrethe at tea one day last week: "You've got your feet on the table. Sit properly." "I do sit properly," Margrethe answered back before she obeyed...
When Radio Reporter Axel Dahlerup asked the King to speak into the microphone, Frederik said that his children were "as charming as anyone else's" but also could be very noisy on occasion, "so that sometimes you feel you could strangle them." He then presented the radio reporter to Queen Ingrid, whom he called his "dream wife." He referred to the Princesses as the "ungerne," the kids...
...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...