Throughout the year, the 50th Jubilee of HM The Queen’s Accession to the Throne has been marked with events in several places around the country. It is a time-honored tradition that, for special occasions in The Royal House of Denmark, new portraits are published, and, as a conclusion to the jubilee year, two new gala portraits of The Queen and The Royal Family are published today. The gala portraits were made by photographer Per Morten Abrahamsen in the Great Hall of Christian IX’s Palace at Amalienborg. It is from this hall that The Queen and The Royal Family, among other things, traditionally step out on the balcony on birthdays to receive congratulations from the Danish people from the palace square.