Denmark’s new king had just brushed away a tear after announcing his accession to the throne when he turned to his wife for a kiss. But as Frederik X leaned.
The eldest son of Queen Mary is now next in line to the Danish throne after his father King Frederick X yesterday replaced Queen Magrethe II as monarch following her shock abdication.
Hotels and accommodation in the Danish capital are booked and busy, the Guardian reports, as excited crowds have already started to gather in Copenhagen ahead of the event.