Queen Margrethe wins prestigious design award for her manufacturing work

The former Queen of Denmark has received a prestigious award for her costume and set design work on a Danish Netflix movie – simply weeks after abdication.

Margrethe, who shocked royal watchers when she introduced her sudden abdication on December 31, revealed her award on Instagram.

She labored on Netflix movie Ehrengard – The Art of Seduction, for which she was awarded a Robert Award as Costume Designer of the Year.

Taking to Instagram, the royal wrote: ‘I’m deeply grateful, touched and happy with the popularity that the Robert award represents. 

‘Receiving an award that the trade itself awards makes me significantly comfortable, and it has been a terrific pleasure and pleasure to have the ability to contribute to the expression of the movie. 

The former Queen Margrethe II (pictured) exhibits off the design award she received for her work on a Netflix film

‘I wish to thank the whole group behind the movie, however I particularly thank all those that have made my concepts, sketches and drawings a actuality – not least the proficient individuals who have sewn and labored with the various costumes.’

Many are unaware of the previous monarch’s artistic skills, however as a baby, she aspired to be an artist.

According to the Royal web site: ‘Early on, Princess Margrethe went along with her dad and mom to the Royal Theatre, the place in 1948 she attended August Bournonville’s ballet Napoli, which made a deep impression on the Princess.’ 

Under Danish legislation, till she was 13, males solely took the throne. But when the structure was modified, permitting ladies to rule, Margrethe grew to become the inheritor presumptive, altering the course of her life, along with her changing into Queen in 1972.

However, she continued to work on her drawing and different artworks, till round her 20s. 

After finding out for a diploma in prehistoric archaeology on the University of Cambridge, in addition to finding out at Aarhus University in Denmark, the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics, she was impressed to get into artwork once more, after studying J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

According to the Danish royals: ‘As an grownup, The Queen herself grew to become concerned in ballet as a scenographer and costume designer. 

‘From the mid-Eighties and 30 years onwards, The Queen helped with the annual ballet performances at a good friend’s dance faculty in Næstved, the place the wing surroundings and costumes had been conjured up with monumental creativeness from supplies at hand. Quite particular had been the performances’ quite a few paper hats, which The Queen thought up and created herself.’

Margrethe (pictured, left) is proven engaged on imagery for the Danish manufacturing, Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,

After engaged on novice productions, Margrethe took up extra skilled work, after being approached by the TV theatre at Danmarks Radio who ‘approached The Queen in 1987 and persuaded her to help as a scenographer and costume designer for a TV manufacturing of H.C. Andersen’s fairy story The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep’.

An bold new manufacturing of August Bournonville’s ballet A Folk Tale, at the Royal Theatre in 1990 noticed the-then Queen designed the scenography and the various costumes.

Following in 1990 was the Royal Theatre’s bold new manufacturing of August Bournonville’s ballet A Folk Tale, for which The Queen designed the scenography and the various costumes.

Around 2000, Margethe joined with Tivoli’s Pantomime Theatre.

Her objective was to ‘assist revitalise the theatre’s small ballets, that are carried out free for the amusement park’s guests’. 

Her first efficiency as scenographer and costume designer was the H.C. Andersen-inspired ballet Love within the Dustbin in 2001.

‘Since then there have been ballets primarily based on a number of of the writer’s fairy tales, together with Thumbelina, The Tinderbox, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Swineherd and The Snow Queen, but in addition The Nutcracker and Cinderella,’ says her biography.

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, which was introduced final 12 months.

AWARD WINNING: A nonetheless from Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, which had a royal crew member engaged on it

According to Netflix: ‘In the fairytale kingdom of Babenhausen, a younger, self-appointed professional on love, Mr. Cazotte (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), is employed by the scheming Grand Duchess (Sidse Barbett Knudsen) to assist her safe an inheritor. 

‘While trying to find an appropriate future Princess, Mr Cazotte teaches the timid and introverted Crown Prince Lothar (Emil Aron Dorph) the artwork of seduction and lovemaking. 

‘But their plan quickly backfires, when an inheritor is conceived out of wedlock and the royal household has to hunt refuge within the citadel of Rosenbad. Here, as rivals inside the royal household shut in on their scheme, Cazotte himself falls in love with Ehrengard (Alice Esther Bier Zandén), the maid of honor, and regularly learns that actually, he’s no professional on love in any respect.’

Speaking about her function within the design division when the undertaking was introduced, Margrethe mentioned she was ‘very comfortable’ to be a part of this undertaking.

Praising the writer, she described the work as ‘aesthetic’, revealing: ‘I’ve tried to interpret Blixen’s improbable universe within the creation of the découpages and costumes and I’m wanting ahead to seeing the story of Ehrengard come to life on this movie.’

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction is streaming on Netflix in Denmark now.