When The Queen celebrates her 79th birthday on Tuesday, 16 April 2019, it will take place in Aarhus and be marked with a birthday parade at Marselisborg Palace. At 12.00, Her Majesty and the members of the royal family present will appear on the veranda and greet the people who turn out. The official birthday program will be as follows: 

11.20
The public gets access to the Palace Garden in front of and east of Marselisborg Palace.

11.45
The Band of the Royal Life Guards and guard members coming on watch duty march from the Guard Quarters to the palace. 

12.00
The Queen and the royal family step out on the veranda and the birthday parade takes place. It is carried out as the Band marches up next to the palace.

Holidays at Marselisborg Palace
Throughout The Queen’s reign, it has been a standing tradition to celebrate holidays such as Easter and Christmas at Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus. Since Easter falls around Her Majesty’s birthday this year, The Queen will take up residence at the Aarhusian palace and thus celebrate her birthday there. The most recent time that The Queen celebrated her birthday in Aarhus was in 2017.

In 1967, Frederik the 9th made Marselisborg Palace available to the then-Successor to the Throne Couple, Princess Margrethe and Prince Henrik. Originally, the palace was part of a wedding- and national gift to Prince Christian (later Christian the 10th) and Princess Alexandrine in 1898. At that time, Aarhus had acquired Marselisborg manor two years before, and, in connection with the wedding, a portion of the park was presented together with the construction of a new palace – what we know today as Marselisborg Palace. In 1902, the palace was finished, and it has served as a residence for the Danish monarch since then.