Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Beatrice twice queen of Hungary
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David Ingram and the Lost Cities of Native North America
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Carl Bloch's lost masterpiece finds fame again in Athens – work that made its Danish creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a symbol of the Kalmar Union since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms
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Marius Borg Høiby, the 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in her 20s
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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the King of Denmark plug in the country's first AI supercomputer – Gefion leverages 1,528 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs
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Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law
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Five months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half of Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, workers are set to begin the reconstruction of the 400-year-old building
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies
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Adrift off the Finnish coast, the autonomous island of Maakalla comes alive each summer and offers a fascinating glimpse at how Finns once lived
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Danish King Frederik X inaugurated the first element of a future eighteen-kilometre tunnel under the Baltic Sea – Fehmarn Belt fixed link will slash travel times between Scandinavia and Central Europe
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million
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King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, postponing public duties
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Denmark's former queen Margrethe to get ‘The Crown’ drama treatment – show being developed by the makers of Borgen
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As Denmark celebrates the crowning of Frederik X, one legendary patisserie, Conditori La Glace, has prepared a decadent chocolate cake
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Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
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$100M will be left for Native Hawaiian causes from the estate of an heiress considered last princess
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Denmark's Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 next year after fifty-two years on the throne – succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik
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The Masterplan vision for Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled
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How one man rewrote one thousand years of history
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Wikipedia’s king who doesn’t exist
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Queen Margrethe of Denmark is embracing her first passion – royal served as costume and production designer for Netflix film ’Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction’
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Memoirs of Count Boruwłaski: The last court dwarf describes entertaining Kings and Queens of Europe
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Mette Marit of Norway, the princess on sick leave who is raising the visibility of chronic diseases
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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Saudi crown prince on Jamal Khashoggi murder: ‘Anyone involved is serving jail time’
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Prince William warns against 'doom and gloom' in eco-debates
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The King of Jordan approved a cybercrime bill that will crack down on online speech deemed harmful to national unity
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The medieval food that killed an English king, and could be used to pay your rent
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
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King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
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King Charles: Foie gras banned at royal residences
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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Public grief over Queen Elizabeth II in Hong Kong seen as both nostalgia and dissent
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Queen Elizabeth II dies
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Arizona farmers grew Saudi Arabia's agriculture empire. Now, the monarchy has a chunk of the state's water.
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Prince Charles delivers Queen's speech to open Parliament for the first time. Queen Elizabeth misses event for first time in almost six decades.
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Absolute power
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Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of HRH
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Queen Margrethe II, reigning monarch of Denmark, is to design the sets for a forthcoming Netflix film adapted from a novel by Karen Blixen
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Frederick the Great: Gay king of Europe (and of the attempts at denying this)
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Charles I's travelling library
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Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
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