THE ANGLO-DANISH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

No 1 : February 2015 www.anglo-danishsociety.org.uk Reg. Charity No 313202 THE ANGLO-DANISH SOCIETY Thank you! Patrons Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Our sincere thanks to members and friends for Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II generous donations to our Scholarship Protector of the Scholarship Programme Programme. HRH the Duchess of Gloucester, GCVO

Honorary Presidents Mr & Mrs Niels Ring Andersen HE Claus Grube, K1 Mr & Mrs Frank Bengtsen Baron Rupert N.Hambro, CBE Mrs Hafdis Bennett

Officers and Members of Council Mr & Mrs Karsten Borch Christian Williams (Chairman) Mr & Mrs Peter Davis Birger Jensen (Vice Chairman) Mr James G Davis Lisbeth Ehlers (Honorary Secretary) Graham Hughes, FCA (HonoraryTreasurer) Mr John de la Cour Margit Stæhr (Hon. Scholarship Secretary) DONG Energy Lone Britt Christensen (ex officio) Pastor Else Hviid (ex officio) Dr Ebba Nielsen Palle Baggesgaard Pedersen, R (ex officio) Mr & Mrs Alan Eastwood Niels Ring Andersen, MBA (co-opted) Ann Bird Mr & Mrs Simon Freeman Peter Davis, OBE FRSA (co-opted) Mr Michael Frellsen Kim Dohm Helga Thomas Baron Rupert Hambro Ms Marianne Hirtzel Scholarship Committee Margit Stæhr (Head of Committee) Mr & Mrs Kjeld Jacobsen Lone Britt Christensen Mr & Mrs Flemming Jacobs Søren Dyssegaard, R1 Mr & Mrs Birger Jensen Birger Jensen Dr Kristian Jensen, R Mr & Mrs Ole Hviid Jensen Dr Claire Thomson Mr & Mrs Oscar Lewisohn

Membership Subscriptions Mr Alexander Malmaeus Single membership £15 Sir James Mellon Family membership £20 Corporate membership £100 Mrs Inge Mitchell Mr & Mrs Anthony Orchard Anglo-Danish Society 43 Maresfield Gardens Mr & Mrs Jens-Anders Palmquist London NW3 5TF Mr & Mrs Vagn Pedersen [email protected] www.anglo-danishsociety.org.uk Ms Bridget Petersen Mr J S Roberts Webpage: Margit Stæhr Mr & Mrs Per Staehr

Guest Editor: Lisbeth Ehlers Sir William Utting Layout: Palle B Pedersen Mr & Mrs Colin Weavers Photos: Bill Hallett & Frazer Waller Print: Go Digital (Derby) Limited Mr Iwo Wiesendanger Mr & Mrs Christian Williams Reg. Charity No.: 313202 Mr P J Willoughby Happy New Year Dear Members, afterwards at a reception in the lofty Residence of the Ambassador of The Year 2014 was quite unlike any , Claus Grube and his wife, other in the 90-year-history of the Susanne Fournais Grube. Anglo-Danish Society. We awarded a record number of eight scholarships Another tradition was born in mid - including the Ove Arup Foundation June when the Society was invited to Scholarship - in one year and were a splendid dinner followed by the generously rewarded by seeing so Ceremony of the Keys at the HQ of many of our past and present scholars the of Wales’s Royal at the Royal Banquet. Regiment at the Tower of London. There is a very special link between We organised a record number of the Society and the PWRR, and we are fascinating events and mention but a welcomed back on 8 October 2015. few: But from then on our lives were taken The dinner/concert at Drapers’ in over by the preparations for the Royal early February has become a welcome Banquet in the presence of our Royal tradition and a fitting start to the Patron, H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Society’s social calendar, and we Denmark, and the Protector of our thank our Chairman for having made Scholarship Programme, H.R.H. the this possible. Duchess of Gloucester and H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester together with over But the first Viking Exhibition for 30 230 members and guests. years at the British Museum gave us the opportunity to organize a special In a fine speech Her Majesty looked Scandinavian Lecture which opened back to our 75th Anniversary in 1999 the door to an enjoyable and fruitful at Guildhall, but observed that 15 co-operation with our Nordic years later the Anglo-Danish Society organisations which we much look looked much younger. So with Her forward to pursuing in the future. Majesty’s kind words in mind we will look ahead and work for an even Even the AGM was special as, before more successful future for the Society. proceedings, we enjoyed the hospitality of our member, Hafdis Many thanks for your generous Bennett who just happened to show support in 2014. her photographs from at the ground-floor Icelandic Embassy and Lisbeth Ehlers, Honorary Secretary Membership News We welcome new members: Gunnar Larsen, Surrey Martin Lytje, Cambridge Claus & Rachel Ring Andersen, Surrey Paul Petersen, London Hafdis Bennett, London Daniel Petersen, Frans & Hanne Pedersen Boch, DK Major David Rankin-Hunt Bette & Ian Broyd, Surrey CVO MBE KCN TD, Berkshire Jane Crabtree, Kent Louisa Rasmussen, London Sarah Fraser, Buckinghamshire Mr & Mrs Bruno Schroeder, London Michael Frellsen, Oxfordshire Pia Søgaard, Oxford Kaare Odsgaard Gade, London Annette & Vagn Sørensen, London Hanne & Daniel Greenin, Surrey Dorte & Thorkild Stamp, London/DK Anne & Bill Hallett, Northants Ulrik Tofte Jensen, Surrey Professor Kristin Henry, Suffolk Ivo Wiesendanger, Switzerland Michael Horan, Hertfordshire Kirsten & Noel Yeates, Essex Johan Kudahl, Cambridge Mr & Mrs Jørgen Petersen, Ladefoged (Corporate Member) Oxfordshire Annual Subscriptions for 2015 For those members who are not Life Application form to be found on the Members or have established a Society’s website www.anglo- standing order, this is a reminder that danishsociety.org.uk under the their annual subscription to the Membership tab there is a section for Society for 2015 is now due, £15 for completing and submitting a standing individual members and £20 for order request. When completing this family members. form please allow a few weeks before the first payment to allow for the For those members who have not set setting up of the standing order. up a standing order to pay their annual subscription but may now Graham Hughes wish to do so, within the Membership Honorary Treasurer

The Lily motive is a design by H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and available from Håndarbejdets Fremme : Danish Handcraft Guild Lene B Cotton, Bridge Farm, W. Bradley, Glastonbury, BA6 8LS www.danish-handcraft-guild-uk.com Royal Banquet in pictures Royal Banquet in pictures Royal Banquet in pictures Royal Banquet in pictures Royal Banquet in pictures Anglo-Danish Society Events : 2015 DRAPER’S HALL VINTNERS’ HALL, DINNER & CONCERT 68 UPPER THAMES STREET, EC4 WEDNESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 18.00 THURSDAY, 26 MARCH, 11.00 – 12.30 This event is fully booked. A guided tour of the exquisite Vintners’ Hall, home of the Worshipful Company of Vintners – one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London – which celebrated its 650th year of being the spiritual home of the UK wine trade in 2013. We hope to have Lunch at the private club, The Little THE ATHENAEUM CLUB, Ship in Bell Wharf Lane, off Upper 107 PALL MALL, LONDON Thames Street. Price of guided tour is THURSDAY, 5 MARCH 12.30 FOR 1300 £15 per person, lunch details to MEMBERSHIP OF THE EU – GOOD OR follow. Please return the reply coupon BAD? A DISCUSSION OVER A THREE- to the A-DS no later than Thursday, 12 COURSE-LUNCH IN THIS EXCLUSIVE March 2015. CLUB H.E. Mr Claus Grube, Ambassador of SKULPTUR : ROYAL BRITISH SOCIETY Denmark, and Sir Richard Ottaway, OF SCULPTORS, 108 OLD BROMPTON Chairman of the Commons Foreign ROAD, LONDON SW7 Affairs Select Committee will be our WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL, 12 NOON guests of honour and speakers at an A SPRING WALK undoubtedly very lively debate on We are delighted to have been Europe leading up to the General offered a tour of the exhibition of Election on 7 May 2015. Peter Davis, contemporary sculpture from OBE, will chair the event, and there Denmark, , Iceland, will be an opportunity to ask and . The work will be questions and to air opinions. displayed at three sites in South Kensington: The RBS galleries on Old Price per member is £80 including a 3- Brompton Road, the Goethe-Institut course-lunch with wine and coffee. London, and Prince’s Gardens, a Price per non-member is £100. This public square owned by Imperial event is proving very popular. As College London. Please remember places are limited to 35, we urge you practical footwear! We start at the to return the reply coupon no later British Society of Sculptors and finish than 12 February 2015. at Imperial College where we will Anglo-Danish Society Events : 2015 have lunch at the College’s modern invited us back for a post-AGM Restaurant “Eastside”. The Guided reception in their elegant Residence. Tour is free of charge. Further details Agenda and Minutes to follow in our about lunch to follow. For further next Newsletter. details about the Exhibition, visit www.rbs.org.uk Please return the THURSDAY, 8 OCTOBER FROM 18.30 reply coupon to the A-DS no later AN EVENING AT than Wednesday, 8 April 2015. THE REGIMENTAL HQ OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S WEDNESDAY 27 MAY AT 6PM ROYAL REGIMENT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT HM TOWER OF LONDON THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY, At the kind invitation of Col. Wayne 55 SLOANE STREET, SW1X 9SR Harber we will again experience the FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION IN THE quite special atmosphere at dinner in AMBASSADOR’S RESIDENCE the Regiment’s home which forms We are delighted to announce that part of the HQ of the Fusilier H.E. Mr Claus Grube and Mrs Susanne Museum. Further details to be Fournais Grube have again this year announced nearer the time. Scholarship News JACOB SHAW, A-DS scholar who performed at our Royal Banquet in December, has been invited to join the prestigious Young Performers Career Advancement program, organised by APAP, the Association of Performing Art Presenters, which included a debut at Carnegie Hall in January 2015. Jacob played Fauré, Wagner and Popper to a full hall together with his Danish collaborative pianist David Lau Magnussen.

Photo: Holly Allen Cooper