CNN —He’s been known as the Crown Prince of Denmark since the age of three, but on Sunday, he will leave Copenhagen’s Christiansborg Palace as King Frederik X, sovereign of Europe’s oldest monarchy.
Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik will take over from his mother, Queen Margrethe II, when she formally steps down as monarch on Sunday.
His forename was chosen in line with the Danish royal custom of the heir apparent being named either Frederik or Christian.
Crown Prince Frederik began his military education in 1986 in the Queen's Life Guard Regiment.
“Crown Prince Frederik is a much more informal person than his mother,” said historian Lars Hovbakke Sørensen.
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