A “celebratory church service” was held at Aarhus Cathedral on Sunday as King Frederik X attended his first church service as King outside of Copenhagen.
The King was accompanied by his wife Queen Mary and their four children, as well as his mother Queen Margrethe.
The church service came exactly a week after Frederik, 55, was proclaimed king after his 83-year-old mother Margrethe signed her abdication during a meeting with the government. After the Queen’s announcement of her abdication on New Years Eve, planing went into a spin for the Coronation of the new King and Queen.
“Normally, you would spend three months planning this, but we (had) two and a half weeks, something like that. So we have been very busy, I tell you,” said Henrik Wigh-Poulsen, bishop of the Diocese of Aarhus of Sunday’s church service. “I chose some of the hymns we’re going to sing, and the king said, I would like to sing these hymns.”
