However, there will be more corona restrictions when the Danes can show up again at the formal ceremony.
As something new, you have to sign up for the audience. In addition, only those who have received an honor on July 1 this year or later can attend.
One must also show coronapas if one wants in audience.
The Royal House is pleased that it is now again possible to conduct audiences, says communications manager Lene Balleby to Ritzau.
– We in Denmark have a long tradition that everyone with an errand can get an audience with the regent. And it means something to many – also for the Queen and the Crown Prince – that we now resume the audiences, she says.
Michael Bregnsbo, associate professor of history at the University of Southern Denmark, says that the audience is more formal today, but that it could have great political significance in the past.
During the dictatorship, citizens sought to represent the king if they would ask for help or support.
– You could really achieve something if the king was personally interested, or wanted to support you in what you asked for, says Michael Bregnsbo.
During the early monarchy, one had an arrangement whereby anyone could address himself with a prayer or request while the king waited for his horse to be made ready. It writes the Royal House on its website.
Frederik IV formalized the system of regular weekly audiences in 1725.
But before the dictatorship, people also sought out the king when he traveled around the country.
– When the king came to a certain place, there were often many people who approached him with wishes and prayers, which they hoped he could help them with, says Michael Bregnsbo.
Although the audience today has a more ceremonial role, it gives the royals a good opportunity to meet many different Danes.
That is the opinion of Lars Hovbakke Sørensen, a historian and associate professor of Social Sciences at Absalon University College.
– It has become part of the royal house’s way of being a national gathering point, because there is an opportunity for all sorts of different citizens to come in and talk to the royals, he says.
Lars Hovbakke Sørensen believes that the Queen’s public audience helps to maintain contact between the royal family and various parts of society.
If you meet at the audience, you must wear your finest clothes and the decoration you have received. You must also wear white gloves when meeting the royals.
You will be received by the Cabinet Secretary before being taken to the audience room, where the conversation with the Queen will take place.
Queen Margrethe has typically held an audience a couple of times a month, always on Mondays.
On Monday, when the doors to the audience room reopen after the corona break, Crown Prince Frederik – according to the royal house’s official calendar – is regent. He has several times before been in charge of the audience when he has been regent.