Some people don’t need a crown to command a room. Queen Margrethe of Denmark proved it again this weekend.
At the Opera House in Copenhagen on Saturday, Denmark’s beloved former queen received a very special honorary prize as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of ALT for damernes — the women’s weekly that has chronicled Danish life for eight decades.
The prize itself had been presented a few days earlier, at an intimate reception at Fredensborg Palace. There, editor-in-chief Heidi Frederikke Sigdal arrived with a remarkable gift: weekly magazines spanning all 80 years of ALT’s history. The Queen flipped through them with visible delight — decades of Danish life, fashion, and culture passing through her hands.
Artist and clothing designer Nikoline Liv Andersen added her own tribute, presenting the Queen with the original of her artwork “Dronning Margrethe” — the very piece gracing the cover of ALT’s 80th anniversary issue.
In her speech, Sigdal captured what so many Danes feel: that Margrethe carried out the office of regent “with respect, innovation and Her Majesty’s very own style.” Eighty years of magazines, one unforgettable queen.
For Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe — whose grandmother, Princess Feodora of Denmark, ties his own family story to the Danish royal house — it was a moment of particular warmth. Some honors simply feel like family.
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