‘When they kissed, everybody went crazy. It was spontaneous. They didn’t plan it’
Cheers filled the air as Denmark’s King Frederik X and Queen Mary waved to well-wishers from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen for the first time in their new roles.
It was clearly an emotional moment, with the monarch blinking back tears before sharing a tender kiss with his wife.
Smiling proudly as they stood side by side, with Frederik wearing his full-dress navy uniform and Mary regal in a white dress designed by Soeren Le Schmidt and sewn by Birgit Hallstein, the couple evoked memories of their wedding day almost 20 years