King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark are moving into their summer residence, Gråsten Palace, this week, signifying the official start of their royal summer vacation.
The royal couple arrived in Gråsten with their youngest two children, 14-year-old twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, on Monday for a traditional procession through the local town.
Per the Danish royal family’s official website, Gråsten Palace was first built as a hunting lodge in the 1500s. Parts of it have burned down over the centuries and have been rebuilt, changing purposes over time from a hunting lodge to a courthouse as well as housing for judges and police chiefs, and a library. It wasn’t until 1935 that King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid acquired Gråsten Palace for their personal summer residence, and it has been used by the royals as such ever since.
Earlier this month, the Danish royal family announced that the King and Queen would be going on summer holiday with Frederik’s mother, Queen Margrethe, and his aunt, Princess Benedikte.
According to Hello, Frederick and Mary took a private vacation with the twins earlier this month at Château de Cayx, the royal family’s private residence in France. Frederick’s parents, Queen Margrethe and the late Prince Henrik, bought the castle in 1974 as a passion project and a fixer-upper. Located approximately just a few miles from Prince Henrik’s childhood home, also near the city of Cahors in southern France, “the château was ravaged by time, and a major restoration followed for a period of time after the purchase…Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik together were responsible for renovating the palace so that it acquired the look it has today,” according to the castle website.
Hello notes that while King Frederik and Queen Mary returned to Denmark on July 21, both Queen Margrethe and Crown Prince Christian, Frederick’s oldest son and heir, acted as regent while he was away.
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