It turns out there are a number of examples of voters choosing between rulers, even between the U.S. and Denmark, which currently controls Greenland and has just changed its coat of arms to more ...
Donald Trump first flagged buying Greenland, whose colonial history spans centuries, during his first term. Yesterday, he said he wouldn’t rule out military force.
As if in response, the Danish king has this week redrawn the royal arms to feature Greenland ... been known ever since as the United States Virgin Islands – an American “territory”.
Last month, the royal court modified its coat of arms, enlarging a polar ... They are now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. But the Danish answer regarding Greenland was the same then as it ...
During World War I, Washington had better luck, buying the Danish West Indies in 1917 for $25 million ($616 million in current dollars) and renaming them the United States Virgin Islands ... changed ...
After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...
King Frederick X of Denmark announced a change of the royal coat of arms on January 1 this year. This change was understood ...
In late December, by "royal resolution," in an announcement that appears to have gone largely unnoticed until this week the king updated the Danish royal coat of arms. Why Trump wants Greenland ...
The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...
"Supposedly, the drive behind it was to push forward decolonisation. That's a necessary and good thing. However, the way they went about it doesn't feel like decolonisation." ...