King Frederik X and Queen Mary Attend Godson's Wedding on Funen
King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark left their summer residence at Gråsten Palace in southern Jutland to attend a family wedding on the island of Funen on 22 August.
The couple were guests at the marriage of Gregers Carl Preben Ahfeldt-Laurvig-Bille and Cecilie Juhl, held at Kværndrup Kirke, a church in the village of Kværndrup. Gregers is King Frederik's godson, and Frederik serves as his godfather — a lifelong role in the Danish royal family's network of godparent ties that links the monarch to noble houses across the country. Hello!
Queen Mary chose a pink pleated chiffon gown with bell sleeves by the New York-based designer Mikael Aghal, as identified by the fashion-tracking account Royal Fashion Police on Instagram. She paired it with the Edwardian Tiara, a piece from the Danish royal jewellery collection.
The bride's side of the aisle carried its own heirloom. The Ahfeldt-Laurvig-Bille Tiara, a diamond floral piece, has been in the groom's family since around the 19th century, though its exact origins are unknown. It last appeared at a family wedding in 2019, when the groom's stepmother, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, wore it to marry Count Michael Ahfeldt-Laurvig-Bille — Gregers's father.
Count Michael has run Egeskov Castle since 1992, and it was there that the wedding party moved after the ceremony for a closed celebration. Egeskov, a moated Renaissance castle on Funen, is one of Denmark's best-preserved stately homes and has been in the Ahfeldt-Laurvig-Bille family for generations.
Among the other guests was Count Nikolai of Monpezat, 26, who attended with his girlfriend, Benedikte Thoustrup. Nikolai is the son of Prince Joachim of Denmark — King Frederik's younger brother — and his former wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. The appearance brought together branches of the extended Danish royal family for a private family occasion rather than a state event.
For Frederik and Mary, the wedding interrupted the annual summer stay at Gråsten Palace, the royal couple's customary seasonal residence in southern Jutland. The palace has served as a summer retreat for the Danish monarch and their family for decades, and the couple's attendance at the Kværndrup ceremony took them across the country — from Jutland in the west to Funen in the central belt of the Danish archipelago.
The wedding was a private family affair, with no official court photographs released and no engagement listed on the royal household's public calendar. The details that have emerged — the dress, the tiara, the guest list — come from guests and royal-watchers who documented the day on social media rather than from any official statement.
