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Danish royals attend private funeral for Prince Henrik

The husband of Queen Margrethe died in the Danish capital at the age of 83 last week.

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The Danish royal family look on as pallbearers carry the coffin of Prince Henrik during the funeral ceremony (AP)

Danish royals and officials have attended a private funeral in Copenhagen for Denmark’s late Prince Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe.

The queen, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, France’s ambassador to Denmark and some 60 other guests were among those at the simple church ceremony at the chapel of the Christiansborg Palace.

Later, hundreds of people lined the streets of the Danish capital to watch military officers carry away Henrik’s coffin, draped in a Danish flag with his personal coat of arms.

The royal palace has respected the wish of French-born Henrik to be cremated.

Officials said earlier that half of his ashes would be spread over Danish seas and the other half buried in the royal family’s private garden at the Fredensborg Palace, where he died.

Queen Margrethe is led into Christiansborg castle church by royal confessor Erik Norman Svendsen (AP)
Queen Margrethe is led into Christiansborg castle church by royal confessor Erik Norman Svendsen (AP)

Henrik, who married Margrethe in 1967, died on February 13 at the age of 83.

He was diagnosed with dementia last year and was taken to hospital in January with a lung infection.

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