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Denmark s Queen Margrethe II has held her annual New Year s event inside the royal palace, but this time the festivities were unlike any seen before.
The coronavirus pandemic forced the monarch to cancel three glamorous galas scheduled between January 1-5 as case numbers steadily increase across Europe.
Traditionally, New Year s Eve in Denmark is marked with the formal dinners at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen.
Denmark s Queen Margrethe II has received New Year s greetings in a socially-distanced audience after her annual galas were cancelled. (Danish Royal Household)
It is a chance for Queen Margrethe and her family – including Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik, and Prince Joachim and Princess Marie – to thank members of the Armed Forces, the emergency services, members of Parliament and those from other organisations and royal patronages.
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Elsewhere, the King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain was vaccinated on December 16, according to Bahrain News Agency, the Gulf state s official news agency. Details of which vaccine he received or images of the event were not released.
Leaders around the world became some of the first to be vaccinated against the virus, including US president-elect Joe Biden, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Czech prime minister Andrej Babis, and Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Margrethe celebrated her 80th birthday in 2020, which placed her in the first cohort of Danes to receive a vaccine.
Initially, Copenhagen planned to vaccinate residents of retirement homes, then the vulnerable over 65s and the most exposed healthcare workers.