Royals enjoy wonderful Copenhagen sun

Camilla wore a white Anna Valentine dress coat with brown suede boots for the Holy Communion at St Alban’s Anglican Church in the Danish capital.

Dozens of onlookers, both English and Danish, gathered outside the church yesterday to welcome, waving the flags of the two nations.

Before going into the building, the couple stopped at the Churchillparken to see the busts of two Danish war heroes: Anders Lassen, who received the Victoria Cross after being killed in 1945 at the age of 24, and Kaj Birksted, the highest-ranking Danish Royal Air Force pilot of the Second World War.

Major Lassen’s sister Bente Bernstorff-Gyldensteen, 81, said of her meeting with the Prince: “He said that he (Major Lassen) was a great person, like most people seem to think, and that he admired him.”

After the service, they were shown a plaque commemorating the life of Queen Alexandra, who was born a Danish princess but became an English queen after marrying Edward VII.

They met members of the church choir before taking part in a tree-planting ceremony.

Charles remarked to onlookers watching in the sunshine: “I think we chose the right day to do this.” Their trip, part of their tour of Scandinavia, came four months after Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge made their own visit to Copenhagen.

On Saturday the Duchess and Prince were in Sweden and visited the world’s only surviving 17th century ship. Camilla joked she would like to borrow it for the Queen’s pageant.

Admiring the warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm harbour, Sweden, in 1628, Camilla told King Carl XVI Gustaf: “It’s pretty impressive. It’s unbelievable. It is very nice. Perhaps we could borrow it for the jubilee pageant. The Vasa, now housed in a custom-built museum, was salvaged in 1961.