Princess Isabella Turns 18: Royal Portraits, Tiara Gift & Thank You

Princess Isabella charming way of thanking everyone for her mega birthday

On Easter Monday (April 21), Princess Isabella of Denmark officially blew out 18 candles on her birthday cake. The daughter of King Frederik and Queen Mary celebrated her coming of age – and surprised royal fans with brand-new portraits, including a gift from Grandma Margrethe.

Now, there’s also a small backstage photo showing: Behind the scenes of her birthday photoshoot, the princess was playing around on her phone – like a completely normal teenager. Wonderfully down-to-earth!

After the celebrations and three mega-parties, the newly 18-year-old is now speaking out in person. She captioned the cell phone snapshot:

Thank you to everyone who helped me celebrate my 18th birthday. It was truly amazing that so many people invested time, thought, and effort into making my day special. It means a lot to me.

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Official photos of Princess Isabella

This is what adulthood looks like: Isabella poses in a bright orange off-the-shoulder dress in the Great Hall of Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Palace. The Danish royal family has published the three new portrait photos on Google and Instagram, among other places.

Over this, Princess Isabella wears a blue sash with the Order of the Elephant – Denmark’s highest honor, which she officially received on her 18th birthday.

What’s striking in the photos is not only Isabella, who appears particularly majestic and mature, but also the jewel she wears on her head.

A gift with a story from Grandma Margrethe

The tiara Isabella is wearing in the new photos is her first tiara—and a gift from her grandmother, the former Queen Margrethe.

“The tiara was made at the end of the 19th century and belonged to Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden. After her untimely death in 1920, her daughter, Princess Ingrid, received the tiara as a confirmation gift and brought it to Denmark upon her marriage to the future Frederik IX,” the Danish royal family writes alongside a close-up of the piece.

The tiara is set with eleven daisy-like rosettes made of turquoise and diamonds and can even be taken apart and worn as a bracelet.

Big celebrations For Princess Isabella

The Danish royal family barely escaped the party marathon in April. Queen Margrethe celebrated her 85th birthday on April 16. Princess Isabella has been popping the corks since April 11.

It began with a cultural party in Aarhus, followed by a celebration in Copenhagen on April 15, which 1,000 Danish people were also invited to attend. What was planned for her actual birthday, April 21, has not yet been revealed.

Premiere for Isabella: Princess surprises with unusual Instagram post

The daughter of King Frederik and Queen Mary has come of age. After the grand birthday celebration, Isabella is now speaking out personally.

It was a big day for Isabella of Denmark : On April 21, the second eldest child of King Frederik and Queen Mary turned 18. To mark the occasion, the palace published new photos of the princess on the royal family’s Instagram account, as is customary on royal birthdays.

In the official gala portraits, Isabella poses formally in the Knight’s Hall of Amalienborg Palace in a strapless orange dress with a sash and tiara. Now, one day after the princess’s birthday, another photo from the shoot has shared on the account—but it’s completely different.

“This means a lot to me”

It’s not staged, but rather a snapshot of the 18-year-old. Isabella has her phone in her hand and is looking up from the screen. Her eyes are shining brightly as she beams at the camera. According to the post, her mother, Mary, pressed the shutter, not the photographer of the portraits.”

With the accompanying text, the princess is celebrating a first, addressing her profile’s followers herself for the first time. “Thank you to everyone who celebrated my 18th birthday with me. It was truly amazing that so many people invested their time, thought, and effort into making my day special. It means so much to me,” Isabella writes.

Fans are thrilled with the personal message. In addition to numerous belated birthday wishes, they showered the 18-year-old with compliments. “What a beautiful, natural shot,” “You’re so pretty,” and “Thank you for the kind words” are among the messages.

Princess Isabella was born in 2007 as the second child of King Frederik and his wife Mary. She is two years younger than her brother, Crown Prince Christian. Twins Vincent and Josephine were born in 2011.

Danish Royal Family: When a princess turns 18…

People can celebrate coming of age in many ways. For a Danish princess, these include membership in the Order of the Elephant and celebratory photos.

On birthdays, as is tradition in many places, one receives lavish gifts. For all those eagerly awaiting some soothing news, a birthday girl presents a present on Easter Monday: The Danish Princess Isabella, who just turned 18, appears in three portraits with all the pomp and circumstance one would expect from a member of a royal family.

The young lady smiles in the pictures, standing and sitting. Her hair adorns a tiara of diamonds and turquoise, which the royal family says had made in the late 19th century.

Furthermore, like many royal pieces of jewelry, people can use it for other purposes. They can take it apart and make it into a bracelet. Praise be to royal sustainability!

For her 18th birthday, Isabella also became a member of the Order of the Elephant, whose roots date back to the 15th century. Danish princes and princesses are entitled to a great honor by birth, which they realize upon reaching adulthood. Attentive observers will have already noticed the elephant at the bottom of the sash.

Danish Princess: A tiara for Isabella’s 18th birthday

Denmark’s Princess Isabella has come of age, and people celebrated her and gifted her richly. In turbulent times, the Danish royal family unites the country.

Denmark’s Princess Isabella has received jewelry from the Danish government and parliament for her 18th birthday. According to the Danish Prime Minister’s Office, the government and the Folketing presented the princess with jewelry from the Moonlight Grapes collection, a reinterpretation of the classic jewelry design by the Danish designer Georg Jensen, who died in 1935.

The brand of the same name advertises that the collection offers something “for every woman,” “from understated sophistication to bold individuality.” According to the State Chancellery, the gift is worth 26,000 crowns (approximately 3,500 euros), and Parliament and the government share the cost equally.

The Order of the Elephant on the sash

Much more valuable is the tiara that the princess received from her grandmother, Queen Margrethe, for her birthday; her mother, Queen Ingrid, had also worn it. The royal family released the new gala portrait of the princess on Monday, in which she wears the tiara. They decorated it with diamonds, and it consists of eleven rosettes with flowers of varying sizes.

In the portrait, the princess also wears the Order of the Elephant, Denmark’s highest order, which she received on the occasion of her birthday, as is customary at court. This is integrated into the dress at the end of a sash.

17,600 young people participated in the raffle

Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, Princess of Denmark, came of age on Monday. Last week, her parents, King Frederik X and Queen Mary, along with Isabella’s three siblings—Crown Prince Christian, Prince Vincent, and Princess Josephine—attended a large celebration in her honor in Copenhagen, joined by around 1,000 young people from across the kingdom.

The Royal Theater in the heart of Copenhagen hosted the ceremony, where the royal family sat on the balcony to the left of the stage, which they reserved for themselves. Below in the stalls sat hundreds of young people from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, who had obtained seats through a lottery. According to the royal family, more than 17,600 young people took part in the drawing.

Nowhere in the Nordic countries

Nowhere in the Nordic countries does the royal family currently enjoy such great respect as in Denmark. King Frederik X took over the crown from his mother, Queen Margrethe, at the beginning of 2024. She had consolidated Europe’s oldest monarchy with her direct, unifying style.

Her son Frederik follows in her footsteps. He is consider down-to-earth and close to the people. And observers in Denmark consider his first year as king a very successful one. Recently, he also used his position to appeal for the country’s unity in the biggest foreign policy crisis in decades.

Denmark is under considerable pressure in foreign policy due to US President. Donald Trump’s plans to take over Greenland, which belongs to the kingdom. During state visits to Finland and France. The King stated in this context that there is no doubt that his love for Greenland. And his connection to the Greenlandic people remain unbroken. He also asserted: “In a world in constant change, our unity is crucial.”

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• With material from the News agencies  dpa and AFP, ntv.de, Reuters news agency, BBC News and CNN reports. And instagram.com: profile of detdanskekongehus, The content has been independently analyzed and rewritten to provide original insights.

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