Amalianborg Palaces

To end the day we made our way across the center city to the current royal residences.  Theree are four palaces that face each other across a large square.  One is the home of the Crown Prince (who was in residence with his flag flying), one is the home of the Queen (who was not in residence), one is used for ceremonial functions, and one is for ceremonies and has a museum of royal artifacts.

I thought they did a very good job with their short write ups about the various historical rooms, artifacts and royal figures.  Just enough to be interesting, but not to glaze your eyes over.

This  is Frederik V who built Amalianborg.  His statue is in the center of the square between the palaces.  He is ALSO wearing a Roman toga (complete with lace up sandels on horseback).  Its so funny how I'm seeing lots of these statues now that it has been pointed out to me that they purposefully chose to be attired this way.

The museum had several different rooms where the living space for the royal family was recreated.  They apparently LOVE portraits (and more recently photos) of the family.  The walls and desk tops are covered with them.  We speculated that this was just for display purposes, but a photo taken of the Kings study in the early 1900s confirmed the accuracy of this clutter.

A reminder that Denmark is a Nordic country - Polar bear rug.

The ball room was lovely.  Elegant but not gaudy, large but not overwhelming.

The ceilings in each room were quite pretty (mostly with gilded geometric shapes, not paintings.