There was no royal motorcade waiting outside the Antvorskov barracks in Slagelse this Monday morning. Instead, Princess Isabella of Denmark pulled up alone in a black Audi Q4, dressed casually and smiling before she’d put on her uniform. It was August 3, and the 19-year-old daughter of King Frederik and Queen Mary had just become one of the first women in Denmark to begin the country’s newly overhauled military conscription.
She was hardly alone in the broader sense: roughly 1,600 young Danes reported to 14 bases across the country that same morning, the first full cohort to serve under the reformed system, which stretches basic training from…
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