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today's Queen). Your visit is short—six or eight rooms on one floor—but it
affords an intimate and unique peek into Denmark's royal family. You'll see
the private study of each of the last four kings of Denmark. They feel partic-
ularly lived-in—with cluttered pipe collections and bookcases jammed with
family pictures—because they were. It's easy to imagine these blue-blooded
folks just hanging out here, even today. The earliest study, Frederik VIII's (c.
1869), feels much older and more “royal”—with Renaissance gilded walls,
heavy drapes, and a polar bear rug. Temporary exhibits fill the larger halls.
Cost and Hours:
80 kr, or 110-kr combo-ticket with Rosenborg Palace;
May-Oct daily 10:00-16:00; Nov-April Tue-Sun 11:00-16:00, closed Mon;
with your back to the harbor, the entrance is at the far end of the square on the
right; tel. 33 15 32 86,
www.dkks.dk
.
Amalienborg Palace Changing of the Guard
—This noontime event is bor-
inginthesummer,whenthequeenisnotinresidence—theguardsjustchange
places. (This goes on for quite a long time—no need to rush here at the stroke
of noon, or to crowd in during the first few minutes; you'll have plenty of
good photo ops.) If the queen's at home (indicated by a flag flying above her
home), the changing of the guard is accompanied by a military band.
