{"id":362438,"date":"2026-10-02T02:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362438\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:14:21","slug":"queen-mary-and-king-frederiks-upcoming-palace-banquet-has-a-special-link-to-his-late-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362438\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mary and King Frederik\u2019s upcoming palace banquet has a special link to his late father"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Mary and King Frederik\u00a0are preparing to welcome important international guests, and the occasion has a personal connection to the Danish royal family.<\/p>\n

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\"Queen\u00a9 Martin Sylvest AndersenQueen Mary and King Frederik will welcome Vietnam\u2019s presidential couple to Denmark for a state visit from October 19 to 21.<\/p>\n

The royal household announced on October 1 that Vietnam\u2019s President T\u00f4 L\u00e2m and his wife, Ng\u00f4 Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Ly, will make a state visit to Denmark from October 19 to 21, at the invitation of the King and Queen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frederik and Mary will host a state banquet at Christiansborg Palace on October 19 in their guests\u2019 honor.<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 HOANG DINH NAMQueen Margrethe and Prince Henrik with Vietnam\u2019s then-President Nguy\u1ec5n Minh Tri\u1ebft and his wife, Tr\u1ea7n Th\u1ecb Kim Chi, in Hanoi in November 2009. The visit reflected the Danish royal family\u2019s longstanding ties to the country, where Henrik spent part of his childhood.<\/p>\n

Alongside the diplomatic significance, the palace highlighted the family\u2019s ties to Vietnam, where Frederik\u2019s late father, Prince Henrik, spent part of his childhood in Hanoi.<\/p>\n

According to Henrik\u2019s official royal biography, he spent his first five years in what is now Vietnam, then part of French Indochina, before his family returned to France in 1939.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Vietnam\u2019s\u00a9 MAGALI COHENVietnam\u2019s President T\u00f4 L\u00e2m and his wife, Ng\u00f4 Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Ly, will be guests of honor at a state banquet hosted by King Frederik and Queen Mary at Christiansborg Palace on October 19.<\/p>\n

He later returned to Hanoi in 1950 and graduated from the city\u2019s French upper secondary school in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Henrik also studied Vietnamese and spoke the language, making his connection to the country one that extended beyond his earliest years.<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 Julian ParkerQueen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, accompanied by then-Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, visited Henrik\u2019s childhood home in Hanoi ahead of a state visit to Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Frederik has previously spoken publicly about that family history. During a November 2022 speech in Hanoi, the then-crown prince said Vietnam \u201cholds a special place in the history of my family,\u201d referring to the years his father spent there as a child and teenager.<\/p>\n

That 2022 trip was Frederik and Mary\u2019s most recent official visit to Vietnam, according to the palace. This October, they will welcome the Vietnamese couple in their roles as King and Queen.<\/p>\n

\"The\u00a9 LUONG THAI LINHThe upcoming state visit marks 55 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

The upcoming visit marks 55 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Vietnam. The royal household highlighted green solutions, health and food among their shared interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ministers, senior officials and a business delegation will accompany the presidential couple.<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 Martin Sylvest AndersenThe King and Queen will host a state banquet at Christiansborg Palace on October 19 in honor of their guests.<\/p>\n

The palace says the full program will be published later. For now, the confirmed Christiansborg banquet sets the stage for an occasion that combines royal hospitality with a family connection stretching back generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Mary and King Frederik\u00a0are preparing to welcome important international guests, and the occasion has a personal connection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13816,13803,9,24,63,13802,122,124,123,4259],"class_list":["post-362438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-danish-royals","tag-king-frederik","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-mary","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}