Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Queen Margrethe look effortlessly chic as they attend the opening of a new panda enclosure at Copenhagen zoo
- The Danish royals attended the opening of an enclosure at Copenhagen zoo
- Queen Margrethe, 78-years-old, opted for a chic monochrome ensemble
- Crown Princess Mary, 47, joined her mother-in-law in a powder blue coat
- The event marked the addition of two new Chinese pandas to the animal park
Crown Princess Mary, 47, and Queen Margrethe, 78, of Denmark looked effortlessly chic as they visited Copenhagen zoo today.
The Danish royals were seated front row for the opening of a new enclosure that will house two pandas.
Queen Margrethe, who was joined by her daughter-in-law, opted for a sophisticated monochrome look for the occasion.
She took a lead role in the grand opening of the premises, which will open to the public on Thursday, and offered her congratulations to the zoo.
The royals looked wrapped up for their visit and wore chic coats in light colours along with cool accessories and leather gloves
Margrethe II of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary opened the panda house in Copenhagen. The pandas Xing Er and Mao Sun arrived to Copenhagen on 04 April, but so far it has only been Zoo’s professional staff who have had access to the pandas.
The royal paired an asymmetric cream coat with black leather gloves and matching earrings for the occasion.
Queen Margrethe wore her tied back and added a splash of colour to her look with a vibrant red lipstick.
Meanwhile, Crown Princess Mary, 46, stunned in a powder blue coat teamed with navy accessories as she joined her mother-in-law for the monumental event.
The gorgeous piece was eye-catching on a grey day, and she paired it with a patterned grey and black scarf.
Queen Margrethe offered her congratulations as she opened the panda plant at Copenhagen zoo, which will house two pandas that were a gift from China’s president during a state visit in 2012
The Danish royals engaged in conversation and appeared to take great interest as they toured the enclosure.
Both made an impact as they visited the newly built facility which will welcome two pandas, named Xing Er and Mao Suni, as part of a Danish and Chinese research project.
‘Congratulations to all of us. We now have two pandas in a fabulous enclosure that we can look at for many, many years,’ Margrethe said.
The enclosure, which is in the shape of the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol, is set to open to the public tomorrow.
The royals were shown around the panda plant at Copenhagen zoo, which will house the two pandas, namned Xing Er and Mao Suni, which the Queen received as a gift from China’s President at the state visit in 2012
Queen Margrethe and Crown Princess Mary were present at the inauguration of the panda plant at Copenhagen Zoo
The pandas are to be separated and brought together again during the mating season.
Xing Er replaced another male panda China, who was originally picked to go to Denmark after it was discovered he couldn’t procreate.
China has lent out pandas as a sign of goodwill to fewer than two dozen nations. Any cubs born during the 15-year loan period are considered China’s.
The bears are ‘national treasures of China and symbol of peace,’ the Chinese Ambassador to Denmark, Deng Ying, said Wednesday.
In February 2018, China loaned two pandas to Finland. Two others arrived in June 2017 at Berlin’s Tierpark zoo, where the first visitors were German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The best-known case of panda diplomacy was in 1972, when a arrived in the U.S., two months after President Richard Nixon’s trip to China, ending 25 years of isolation and tension between the two.