Queen Mary and King Frederik\u2019s first trip to Australia since the Danish royals took the throne isn\u2019t all about sightseeing and photo opportunities.<\/p>\n
The royals and their large delegation are also here to do business.<\/p>\n
Their state visit aims to deepen trade ties between the Scandinavian country and Queen\u2019s Mary home nation.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n The delegation will include more than 50 Danish companies and a focus on clean energy.<\/p>\n Denmark\u2019s deputy prime minister, plus ministers for foreign affairs and climate will accompany the monarchs.<\/p>\n The couple will arrive at Uluru on Saturday, kicking off a six-day state tour which incudes visits to Canberra, Melbourne and Queen Mary\u2019s hometown Hobart.<\/p>\n They will watch the sunset with Indigenous elders in a stop expected to be reminiscent of the 1983 British royal tour, when the late Princess Diana and then Prince Charles, now King, visited the culturally significant monument.<\/p>\n \u201cDenmark and Australia share an interest in nature and cultural conservation and elements related to nature and culture will form part of the state visit,\u201d a statement from the Royal House of Denmark reads.<\/p>\n The pair will be welcomed at Government House in Canberra on Sunday by Governor-General Sam Mostyn, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his wife Jodie Haydon.<\/p>\n Ms Mostyn will host a formal state dinner for the royals.<\/p>\n The Danish royal couple will visit Parliament House where they will receive a ceremonial 21-gun salute.<\/p>\n King Frederik and Queen Mary were proclaimed Denmark\u2019s ruling monarchs in a ceremony attracting wide fanfare in January 2024.<\/p>\n The event marked her 20th year of marriage to King Frederik.<\/p>\n Formerly Mary Donaldson, the pair met during a chance encounter at a Sydney pub during the 2000 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n Then aged 28 and working in marketing, the future queen had no idea she crossed paths with Denmark\u2019s party-boy crown prince.<\/p>\n The last time the royals visited Australia officially was 13 years ago, making this their fourth tour together.<\/p>\n They are likely to spend time with Queen Mary\u2019s relatives in Tasmania, including her elderly father John Donaldson.<\/p>\n King Frederik and Queen Mary\u2019s four children, Crown Prince Christian, 20, Princess Isabella, 18, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine,15, are unlikely to join their parents on the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Mary and King Frederik\u2019s first trip to Australia since the Danish royals took the throne isn\u2019t all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,13935,1720],"class_list":["post-539126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-royals","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}