King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark just closed the book on this year’s sailing season, only days after standing among the crowned heads of Europe at King Harald V of Norway’s funeral in Oslo. The royal couple formally stepped off the Dannebrog, Denmark’s royal yacht, at the Nordre Toldbod dock in Copenhagen, marking the end of a summer that had taken the ship from Baltic coastal towns to a Swedish birthday party to a Norwegian state funeral in the span of a few months.

The disembarkation carried the weight of tradition. Frederik and Mary greeted every member of the Royal Guard’s young recruits who had served aboard the yacht that…

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