On a crisp Copenhagen morning, Amalienborg has the same air of royal and stately permanence it must have had two-and-a-quarter centuries ago, when Christian VII became the first of Denmark’s rulers to make it his home.
The palace’s four identical mansions gaze serenely at each other across the square. A tidy crowd watches the changing of the guard. In the museum, an exhibition of Queen Margrethe’s substantial jewellery collection marks her 50 happy years on the throne.
