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Queen Margrethe set for emotional royal reunion – as son Prince Joachim prepares for relocation

Prince Joachim and his wife Princess Marie are moving to America

Gemma Strong
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Updated: May 10, 2023
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Queen Margrethe might have missed out on the excitement of King Charles’s coronation.

But she has another royal reunion to look forward to next month.

A new post shared on the Danish royal family's official Instagram account revealed details of a special meeting set to take place in June.

Margrethe's counterparts, and very good friends, King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway will visit Denmark between 15-16 June. 

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The post confirmed that the royal couple will arrive in Copenhagen on the Royal Ship Norway and sail on to Aarhus together with Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and The Crown Princess and The Royal Ship Dannebrog.

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Margrethe will be eagerly anticipating the visit. King Harald and Queen Sonja's very first state visit as King and Queen of Norway was to Denmark in 1991.

Queen Margrethe of Denmark is very good friends with Queen Sonja and King Harald of Norway© Ragnar Singsaas
Queen Margrethe of Denmark is very good friends with Queen Sonja and King Harald of Norway

There Margrethe, the King's second cousin, received them, and they have remained close friends ever since.

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In March 2021, to mark Harald's 30th year on the throne, Margrethe penned a very touching message for the monarch, which read: said: "On the occasion of King Harald and Queen Sonja's 30th anniversary of the government, I would like to congratulate them with all my heart.

The Norwegian royals will visit the Queen in June© Antony Jones
The Norwegian royals will visit the Queen in June

"Harald and Sonja, you represent your country. No, you are your country. It makes me happy every time I see it. It is a pleasure every time we are together, and I see how wonderfully you perform your tasks. I look forward to the respect you enjoy in Norway and far beyond Norway's borders."

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The reunion will fall around the same time that Margrethe's youngest son Prince Joachim relocates to the States.

Prince Joachim and Princess Marie will move to Washington DC with Henrik and Athena© Getty
Prince Joachim and Princess Marie with his four children

Joachim, his wife Marie, and their two children, Henrik and Athena, are set to move to Washington DC in the US from Paris this summer.

The prince will take up a new role under the Ministry of Defense as defence industry attaché at the Danish Embassy in Washington DC.

The Queen with Joachim's four children on the balcony© Patrick van Katwijk
Margrethe stripped Joachim's children of their HRH titles

At the start of the year, at the behest of their grandmother Margrethe, Joachim's four children all lost their HRH titles.

At the time the decision was announced, Joachim and Marie, spoke of their upsetas did the Queen’s eldest grandchild Nikolai.

Margrethe later took the unprecedented step of apologising to her son and his children.

Prince Joachim and Princess Marie will move to the US this summer© Getty
Prince Joachim and Princess Marie will move to the US this summer

And more recently, she gave a deeper insight into her decision to slim down the monarchy in a candid recent interview with Danish broadsheet, Weekendavisen's editor-in-chief, Martin Krasnik, at Amalienborg.

"When I let go of the reins, he's there. I am a link in a very long chain that continues, and I believe that he will probably find that out," she said of eldest son and heir Frederik.

queen margrethe frederik© Photo: Getty Images
Frederik is heir to the Danish throne

"For me, it has been important that it should not be Frederik's lot to make such a decision. It was better that it was me," she further confided. 

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