Confidential to editors: New Year Address 2014 New Year's Banquet and Levees 2015

The following are guidelines for photographers and journalists in connection with HM The Queen’s New Year Address on 31 December 2014, the New Year’s levee and banquet on 1 January, and the New Year’s levees on 6 and 7 January 2015.

THE NEW YEAR’S SPEECH WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, 31 DECEMBER 2014 AT 18.00 AT FREDENSBORG PALACE.

Pool (few spaces): Photo opportunity after the New Year’s speech is given. 
Meeting time: 17.30 at Blue Gate (Blå Port), Fredensborg Palace. 

Applications for accreditation including name, position, CPR number and media affiliation must be sent to kom@kongehuset.dk by Monday, 29 December at the latest. Accredited press will be notified directly by 12.00 on Tuesday, 30 December at the latest. 

The speech will be posted on the Royal Danish House’s website immediately after it is given. 

 

THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE CONSORT HOLD A NEW YEAR’S LEVEE AND BANQUET THURSDAY, 1 JANUARY 2015 AT 19.00 IN CHRISTIAN VII’S PALACE, AMALIENBORG.

The guests arrive from 18.15.

Participants: The government and specially invited guests.  TRH The Crown Prince and The Crown Princess, TRH Prince Joachim and Princess Marie and HH Princess Elisabeth will be present.

There will be three press pools, which must be applied for in advance. It is not possible to move between the three positions. 

Pool 1: On the palace square by the entrance to the Vestibule, where the guests arrive between 18.15-18.45 and the royal family arrives between 18.50-18.55. 

Pool 2 (1 still photographer and 1 tv-host camera): The Vestibule, where the guests and the royal family arrive  and the Royal Lifeguard is inspected. 

Pool 3 (10 spaces): Inside by the main stairs, where the guests will pass between 18.15-18.45. 

Meeting time for pools 1-3: 17.30 by the Main Gate, where there will be a security sweep by PET. 

Applications for accreditation including indication of desired pool, name, position, CPR number and media affiliation must be sent to kom@kongehuset.dk by Monday, 29 December at the latest. 
Accredited press will be notified directly by 16.00 on Tuesday, 30 December at the latest. 
Press ID cards must be carried. Press without accreditation will not get access to the palace.


THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE CONSORT HOLD A NEW YEAR’S LEVEE TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 2016 AT  09.50 IN CHRISTIAN VII’S PALACE, AMALIENBORG. 

Guests arrive from 09.30.

Participants: The Supreme Court’s judges, watch officers of the Royal Life Guard and the Royal Hussar Guard regiments. The Crown Prince Couple will be present. 

Photographers and journalists can stand in a designated area at the Main Gate. Meeting time: 09.15 by the Main Gate. Applications for accreditation with name, position, CPR number and media affiliation must be sent to kom@kongehuset.dk by Friday, 2 January at the latest. Accredited press will be notified directly by 12.00 on 5 January at the latest. Press ID cards must be carried.

THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE CONSORT HOLD A NEW YEAR’S LEVEE FOR DIPLOMATS TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 2015 AT 11.30 AT CHRISTIANSBORG PALACE.

Guests arrive from 10.50.

Participants: The residing chiefs of mission of the diplomatic corps with their spouses and side-accredited ambassadors.  The Crown Prince Couple will be present.

There will be two press pools. Press with access to both pools will be led from pool 1 to pool 2:

Pool 1 (40 spaces): Drabantsalen (Guards’ Room), where the royal family and guests arrive between 10.50-11.30.

Pool 2 (20 spaces): Balcony in the Great Hall, where photographing is allowed during the presentation of the diplomats. Afterwards, journalists and photographers leave Christiansborg Palace, approx.12.00.

Meeting time: 09.45 by The Queen’s Gate, Prince Jørgen’s Yard, where there will be a security sweep by PET. 

Applications for accreditation including indication of desired pool, name, position, CPR number and media affiliation must be sent to kom@kongehuset.dk by Monday, 2 January at the latest. 
Press ID cards must be carried. Press without accreditation will not get access to Christiansborg Palace. Accredited press will be notified directly by 12.00 on 5 January at the latest. 

NEW YEAR’S LEVEE WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY 2015 FROM 09.30 AT CHRISTIANSBORG PALACE. 

Guests arrive from 09.00 until 12.00. 

Participants: Officers from the Defence and the Danish Emergency Management Agency, the I., II. and III. rank classes, and representatives from large national organizations and those having royal patronage. The Crown Prince Couple will be present. 

Pool (40 spaces): Drabantsalen (Guards’ Room) during the arrival of the royal family and guests, 9.00 – 12.00. There is no further opportunity for photographing inside the palace. 

Meeting time: 08.00 by The Queen’s Gate, where there will be a security sweep by PET. 

Applications for accreditation including name, position, CPR number and media affiliation must be sent by e-mail to kom@kongehuset.dk by Monday, 5 January at the latest.
Press ID cards must be carried. Press without accreditation will not be allowed access to Drabantsalen. Accredited press will be notified directly by 12.00 on 6 January at the latest.

COACH TOUR

Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince Consort will ride in the Gold Coach from Christian VII’s Palace, Amalienborg to Christiansborg Palace under escort by the Royal Hussar Guard Regiment’s horse squadron on 7 January at 9.00 and from Christiansborg Palace to Amalienborg at 13.30.

Contact information

Kirsten Baltzer Kahr

Communications Coordinator

E-mail: kibaka@kongehuset.dk

Tel.: +45 33 40 25 21