Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has married her long term film director partner at an intimate village wedding in Magleby Church, Zealand, a Danish island where the couple share a holiday home.
Mette, 42, exchanged vows with Bo Tengberg, 55, after being forced to cancel their wedding three times in a year, initially delaying their 2019 nuptials because of the general election, then earlier this year due to the pandemic, and finally bringing forward their special day from July 18, to attend an EU Council meeting.
But this afternoon an ecstatic Mette took to Instagram to share a picture of the happy couple exiting the church, alongside the caption ‘YES’ followed by a heart.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has married her long term film director boyfriend at an intimate village wedding in Magleby Church, Zealand, a Danish island where the couple share a holiday home
According to local papers it was a ‘small wedding’ with a guest list of around 90 people, including former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
Mette looked dazzling in a classic boat-neck white dress, which she teamed with pale shoes and a stunning purple and blue bouquet.
Wearing her hair in a tight bun with a long veil hanging from it, she beamed at Bo, who looked dapper in a navy suit, crisp white shirt and matching tie.
The happy couple posed for pictures after the reported 40-minute ceremony, before going onto celebrate with guests.
Mette, 42, exchanged vows with Bo Tengberg, 55, after being forced to cancel their wedding three times in a year, initially delaying their 2019 nuptials because of the general election, then earlier this year due to the pandemic, and finally bringing forward their special day on the July 18 to attend an EU Council meeting
This month Mette confirmed that they were changing their day for the third time to ‘take care of Denmark’s interests in a Facebook post, though she did not give a date.
‘I am really looking forward to marrying this fantastic man,’ she wrote in a post alongside a photo of herself and Bo.
‘But obviously it can’t be that easy, and now there is a council meeting in Brussels called, exactly on that Saturday in July when we had planned to marry,’ she wrote.
‘But I have to do my work and take care of Denmark’s interests. So we have to change plans again.
‘Soon we should be able to get married. I’m looking forward to saying yes to Bo (who fortunately is very patient).’
Mette looked dazzling in a classic boat-neck white dress, which she teamed with pale shoes and a stunning purple and blue bouquet
Mette, who shares two children Magne and Ida with with her ex-husband Erik Harr, first met Bo in 2014 before the couple made their first joint appearance at former Prime Minister Anker Jørgensen’s funeral in the spring of 2016.
Denmark was the first country outside Asia to ease lockdown in May – and there is no evidence so far of a second spike in infections.
The country of 5.8million people allowed restaurants, cafes and malls to resume business following the success of reopening day care centres, schools, hair dressers and some small businesses in April.
The country has an incredibly low coronavirus death toll when compared with other European nations, credited by entering lockdown early on in the pandemic.
At the time Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told citizens she was enforcing the measures on 13 March, Italy was the only other country in Europe to have done so.
Denmark was the first country in Europe to reopen its schools for the youngest pupils, on 15 April 15. In addition to practising social distancing and regular handwashing, classes were being taught outdoors as much as possible to limit the spread of the virus.