Margrethe will come in a carriage to christiansborg palace and then there will be a ceremony where the abdication actually happens. documents will be signed by the outgoing queen and the incoming king. we will not be able to see those live, they happen behind closed doors, but then those pictures will be later released. then what happens is queen margrethe rides to the palace and the prime minister proclaims the succession of the throne from the balcony there. there will then be a gun salute and all of the other proceedings that happen. there is not a big ceremony like we saw with the coronation of king charles in the united kingdom. it is in the constitution in denmark that it happens like this. our role correspondent is there.
And you could see her in the carriage and the crowds are waving as well as she leaves. she is on her way. just explain what happens now. this is a really important moment for so many danish people. she is the only monarch that many danish people have ever known. there has not been a change in 52 years. seeing her on the finaljourney in the carriage with the mounted military escort through the streets of copenhagen is a really, really important moment for many people here. and a little bit of sadness, i suspect as well. she has been an immensely big figure in public life. she is very independent minded, unashamed intellectual who speaks many languages. she was a heavy smokerfor many of many languages. she was a heavy smoker for many of her 83 years, but she is also very creative. she is an artist, she is had paintings exhibited. she has had an enormous
Margrethe on her finaljourney as queen, in a carriage with a mounted military escort, coming here where she will attend an government meeting and sign our declaration of abdication. after that we will see the proclamation of the new king from the balcony here, king frederick the tenth of denmark. he will be proclaimed by the danish prime minister and will say a few words from the balcony. we will see his popular australian born wife, queen mary as well. it is the formal signing of the declaration of abdication and then the prop elimination of the new king. == abdication and then the prop elimination of the new king. mike proclamation- elimination of the new king. mike proclamation. you elimination of the new king. mike proclamation. you mentioned - elimination of the new king. mike proclamation. you mentioned the i elimination of the new king. mike i proclamation. you mentioned the new queen and frederick. what sort of monarchy do you think they will have that will be dif
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our royal correspondent. remind us how this will proceed over the next half an hour. next half an hour. there is a real choreography next half an hour. there is a real choreography to next half an hour. there is a real choreography to the next half an hour. there is a real choreography to the events - next half an hour. there is a real choreography to the events that| next half an hour. there is a real. choreography to the events that we will see play out here this afternoon. that will be in the next couple of hours. it focuses around christiansborg palace which is where the danish parliament is. the first thing we will see in the next few minutes is a car arriving carrying the new king, king frederick and his australian queen, queen mary. they arrived here in a very low key way. the main event will be the arrival of his mother, the outgoing, abdicating queen margrethe. she will make herfinaljourney as abdicating queen margrethe. she will make her finaljourney as queen from h