From 26 February until 1 March 2023 The Crown Prince Couple is on a visit to India to lead the business promotional campaign, which includes a total of 38 Danish companies. The Indian cities New Delhi, Chennai and Agra are the setting for the official visit and a green business promotional campaign which focuses on water and energy in India. The official visit to India began when The Crown Prince Couple and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen meet with India’s Foreign Affairs Minister, HE Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, at ITC Maurya in New Delhi.

The Indian foreign affairs minister was received by HM The Queen at Fredensborg Palace in 2021, when the foreign affairs minister was on an official visit to Denmark.

As an official start of The Crown Prince and The Crown Princess’s visit to India, Their Royal Highnesses took part in wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial for Mahatma Gandhi.

This year, it has been 75 years since Mahatma Gandhi was murdered in New Delhi and The Crown Prince Couple laid a wreath at the site where Gandhi was cremated on 31 January 1948. Gandhi was an Indian political leader who united large portions of the Indian population, which among other things led to India’s independence in 1947.

The Crown Prince Couple was later officially received by India’s vice president, HE Jagdeep Dhankhar. The Indian vice president, HE Jagdeep Dhankhar, is the host of the Crown Prince Couple’s official visit to India, and the vice president will welcome Their Royal Highnesses to the country with a reception at Sushma Swaraj Bhavan.

Afterwards, The Crown Prince and The Crown Princess were the guests of honor at a luncheon banquet at the same place.

In the afternoon The Crown Prince Couple together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen, opened the exhibition “Silver Treasures from Denmark and India” at the National Museum in New Delhi.

The silver exhibition displays Indian and Danish silver crafting traditions, and, at the opening of the exhibition, The Crown Prince Couple took part in a lamp lighting ceremony that is a traditional Indian ceremony regarded as bringing good luck.

The exhibition has come about in a collaboration between Museum Kolding and the Indian national museum, and is an activity under the cultural exchange agreement between Denmark and India, which was signed during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Denmark in the spring of 2022. The agreement supports strengthened cooperation in the cultural sphere.

In the evening the diplomatic relations between Denmark and India were celebrated at a Grand Dinner in New Delhi, where The Crown Prince Couple were the evening’s guests of honour.

At the dinner, representatives from the 38 participating Danish companies, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard also participated.

At the Grand Dinner, the participating Danish companies had the opportunity to invite selected business contacts to the arrangement.