Queen Mary of Denmark has been forced to postpone several of her royal engagements this week after suffering from an illness, the Danish Royal House has announced. Denmark’s Queen was due to attend an event with Mary Foundation at the University of Copenhagen on Friday however, she did not make it.
She was also absent from an awards ceremony on Wednesday. A statement to Danish publication BT read: “Her Majesty the Queen, like many others right now, has become ill, and therefore unfortunately cannot participate in the Heart Association’s award ceremony.” In a post on the Danish royal houses’s official Instagram, King Frederik’s wife thanked twins Alma and Ellen who had sent her a get-well drawing and flowers and apologised for not being able to make it to the Heart Association awards on Wednesday, where she was due to meet them.
The post read: “Thank you for your thoughtfulness. What a lovely surprise to receive this bouquet and drawings, even though illness prevented me from participating in the Danish Heart Association’s event “Together for the Heart”.
“I had been looking forward to presenting the Heart Award together with the children Alma and Ellen and to meeting some of the young people who live with heart disease. Hopefully, we can meet another time.
The palace did not give any more details on the Danish Queen’s illness.
Marry added: “As a patron of the Heart Association, I would like to congratulate the health staff at Denmark’s three largest children’s heart facilities on receiving the Heart Award 2025 – thank you and to all those who make a difference in the field of the heart every day.
Her last public appearance was on Saturday, March 8, when she visited Slagelse – a town in Denmark – where her son and heir to the Danish throne, Crown Prince Christian, has been taking up his military training.
Earlier in that week, on March 5, she hosted a reception with her husband at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland.
The Danish Queen’s next public engagement on Monday, where she is set to visit Vallensbæk – one of Copenhagen’s suburbs.
