Feb 5, 2017

Disclosure: Secret preparations for Queen Margrethe's funeral is far ahead (Blogger: HM the Queen II of Denmark and Prince consort's sarcophagus has just been completed (Blogger: Nothing so large and unpredictable complicated glassworks has ever been produced anywhere in the world. Sarcophagus made in glass, encircle the sculptured silhouettes of the royal couple - a process that the two death masks are part of. The hole deal will 'costs the tip of a jet fighter' (danish expression), milking taxpayers money. King Tut's coffins would look like paper thin wood veneers, in comparison. To make it even more extravagant, a movie will be made, and the price goes up | Movie DOX: 'Sarkofag for en dronning' | Film premiere: 4Q 2017 | Film director: Pavel Stingl | Building Time Consumption: Seven years | Artists: Bjørn Nørgaard & Lhotsky | Place: Czech Republic | Price tag: DKK 30 mio. | Material used: Danish granite, basalt Faroese and Greenlandic marble. Elephant heads are cast in silver. On top allegories, heraldry, symbols in gilt bronze | Glass Casting: Lantern, Czech Republic | Length: 3.3 meter long | Weight: seven-ton shell of crystal glass | Death masks: Sculptured silhouettes of the royal couple | The deceased: Placed in crypts under the sarcophagus | Church: Skt. Birgittes Kapel in Roskilde Cathedral | Test set-up: The sarcophagus completion in summer 2017)

 HM the Queen II of Denmark and Prince consort's sarcophagus

 Afsløring: Hemmelige forberedelser til Dronning Margrethes begravelse er langt fremme

Af Susanne JohanssonBT