King Frederik X of Denmark has replaced the traditional royal coat of arms with one that prominently features Greenland's symbols, seemingly in opposition to President Trump's interest in acquiring the autonomous territory.
The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump ’s plan to take over the autonomous island.
King Frederik X started the new year by revealing his new royal coat of arms, which for five centuries has featured the three crowns of the Kalmar Union — a polity that existed from 1397 to 1523 consisting of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, The crowns have been removed and replaced by much larger images of a polar bear and ram — symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, respectively.The new Danish coat of arms (right) features a bear, the symbol of Greenland, and ram, the symbol of the Faroe Islands, more prominently.The move has been taken as a clear message about Denmark’s intention to maintain control over the autonomous territory — as Trump moves in, claiming it is a “necessity” for the US to attainGreenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede has also repeatedly said the island, home to some 56,000 mostly Inuit people, is “not for sale and will never be for sale.” The changed coat of arms also shows the Danish king — who took the throne just under a year ago — has no intention ofThat, however, is supported by Egede, with the PM having called for the removal of its “shackles of the colonial era.” The relationship between Denmark and Greenland has been strained after an investigation revealed Danish colonial officials forced thousands of young Greenlandic women to use contraceptives to deplete the population in the 1960s and 1970s,In his first address to the country in 2025, King Frederik said: “We are all united and each of us committed to the Kingdom of Denmark. From the Danish minority in South Schleswig — which is even situated outside the kingdom — and all the way to Greenland. We belong togethe
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