Draped in a Danish flag bearing the royal coat of arms, the coffin of Denmark’s Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe, was taken on a stately procession through the streets of northern Copenhagen on Thursday. Draped in a Danish flag bearing the royal coat of arms, the coffin of Denmark’s Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe, was taken on a stately procession through the streets of northern Copenhagen on Thursday. Across the country, Danish flags were at half-mast and gun salutes echoed through the capital at dawn, in honour of Henrik, before his white coffin left the castle he loved. He was titled prince consort, the husband of a reigning queen but not a king, and he was not in the line of succession, his oldest son Crown Prince Frederik being the heir. Denmark’s royal family traces its lineage back to the Viking king Gorm the Old, who died in 958.

Source: Irish Independent February 15, 2018 18:00 UTC