Denmark’s king has unveiled a new royal coat of arms that more prominently features Greenland, as President-elect Donald Trump again floats the idea of the United States buying the Danish territory, a proposal that disrupted relations with Copenhagen during his first term in office.
King Frederik X issued a declaration in December to change the royal coat of arms for the first time in over 50 years, the Danish royal household said in a statement on Jan. 1. The new design, which replaces the one Frederik’s mother, Queen Margrethe II, established in June 1972, “strengthens the prominence of the Commonwealth in the royal coat of arms,” it said.
The bottom-left quadrant of the shield at the center of the coat of arms previously featured three crowns representing the union of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, as well as symbols of the two parts of the Danish Commonwealth: a polar bear for Greenland and a ram for the Faroe Islands. In the new coat of arms, the crowns have been removed, an
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