Denmark's recently abdicated Queen Margrethe designs the costumes and set for a ballet

Denmark's Queen Margrethe during the first working day at the HC Andersen ballet The Snow Queen at Tivoli in Copenhagen, on Nov. 2 2021. Queen Margrethe, who surprised her country by abdicating earlier this year, is back as ballet costume designer with Denmark’s famed Tivoli amusement park that celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, the gardens said Monday March 11, 2024. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

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By Associated Press

March 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM UTC

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March 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM UTC

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Queen Margrethe, who surprised her country by abdicating earlier this year, is back as a ballet costume designer for Denmark’s famed Tivoli amusement park, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, the gardens said Monday.

The 83-year-old-queen, who has designed costumes and stage sets more than a dozen of times at the Tivoli gardens' Pantomine theater, is creating the costumes and set for a ballet based on a fairy tale by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, “Klods Hans,” or “Clumsy Hans.”