On the first day of the year, the Danish royal house presented the country's new coat of arms. This after the new king Frederik X appointed a committee to review the coat of arms shortly after he took the throne last year, writes Göteborgs-Posten.
"The three crowns have been removed from the coat of arms, as they no longer have a current character and are therefore not considered relevant", writes the Danish royal house on its website.
In the new coat of arms, a ram and a bear have instead been given more space, in the absence of the three crowns.
The Danish king wants to emphasize the community with the Faroe Islands and Greenland, so therefore the three crowns have been removed to give more space to their symbols, says Elias Sonnek, chairman of Societas Heraldica Scandinavica to GP.
