What do we think of Queen Margrethe II's glass sarcophagus?I

Yeah, that's pretty gaudy, I feel bad for her.

Looks like a suppository.

Does it reveal her rotting corpse?

I love the idea of being buried in so Lalique-esque perfume bottle for some future alien explorer to discover. The piece on top is unfortunate, but those elephant supports don’t even seem related.

She should have a kosher casket. All you have to do is dust it once a week with pledge. This thing will be a bitch to keep shining.

I prefer Lenin's old school tomb.

It's very "holding a wake in the parlour.."

Then there's Kim Jon Il, who pretty much still looks the same.

Sort of like a stuffed wax figure.

I love the blue glass and the shape but the gold stuff on top and the elephant pillars are too much. Not sure how…functional glass will be.

Why did her husband not want to be buried alongside her? I understand he had mental issues near the end of his life.

Yes, Queen Margrethe's coffin has developed an unfortunate crack...

(We think it's from all the gas!)

I suppose the more important question is, “what does SHE think about it.”

Looks tacky. Were they trying to imitate the lost crystal coffin of Alexander The Great, which was said to be beautiful? Currently, Napoleon’s grand tomb beats ‘em all.

The Order of the Elephant is an order of chivalry and is Denmark's highest-ranked honour.

She'd better not gain weight, seeing as they've already made a precise space for her shape

I'll preface this by saying I'm against glass coffins and putting corpses on public display as a general rule.

If they're going to do it, the blue glass is beautiful, the elephant base is fine, I'm not keen on the gold folderol on the top but what do I know about Art? (Answer - not much)

R9, her husband had a lifetime issue with the fact that he was never named King, and had to make-do with Prince. He had dementia in his final couple years, and made the decision not to be buried along side of his wife in that period.

R15 the glass is transparent but becomes translucent in the center where the body will be. The body isn't visible.

The glass will be dulled by a smoky haze anyway.

Sponsored by Windex.

Thanks, R16.

It doesn't hold a candle to Nureyev's.

My second favorite tomb is Nuriyev's...so creative.

Sorry, R21...we posted about the same time. Great minds...

I mean it does make one feel as though they are trying to rush the old girl into the grave...

It's very beautiful but when I exit this world I want to make a splash by honoring the world's greatest rock band!

This seems morbid.

I feel emboldened to comment because I lived in Solvang for many years and my daughter is named after Queen Margarethe.

The sarcophagus itself looks like an iron maiden torture device cocooned inside an Advil liquid gel capsule, topped with a haphazard assemblage of gilded bric-a-brac purchased from the Hobby Lobby in Copenhagen. It’s a MESS.

She better check in soon, or the mint on the pillow will melt.

Looks like Russian Mafia shit, or something from India, they like gaudy.

I like it. A bit showy, but hell why not?

It looks like Michael Jackson’s oxygen rejuvenation chamber from Neverland Ranch.

R4 I imagine the elephants on the supporting pillars reference the Danish Order of the Elephant, the country's highest chivalric honour.

R15 As someone who finds incorrupt saints fascinating,, I don't mind seeing centuries old corpses inside see through coffins. As long as there's no smell.

It's those human taxidermy funerals where the body is out of the casket, propped up and posed on display that freak me out. They seem to be trending. Ghastly.

This reminds me of when I studied in London. I was running around the UCL campus trying to find a specific room and ran into Jeremy Bentham’s body. Wish I’d had a warning.

R33 - This is the very first thing that entered my mind when I first saw this thread:

It's magnificent. I'd be interested to get a closer look at the gilt work on top. Some articles mention a 'blooming garden" which honours the remark Prince Henrik made about his future with Marguerite at the time of their marriage, but it appears a great deal more is going on there.

Lovely.

I share the fascination with the Incorruptibles. Neat that they bothered.

Human taxidermy funerals? I am afraid to search the internet for those.

R22, how did you post at the same time when there’s a one hour difference between the 2 posts? Did you forget that you already posted that picture from your other DL account or do you have a cat named Bootsy Gumdrop?

One does have to appreciate the historical throughline of self-important rulers sailing off into the afterlife with ostentatious "look at me!!!" self-celebrations. The body dies, but megalomania can live on for millennia.

What if she says no to it?

It looks like a prop from Star Trek TNG.

[quote] how did you post at the same time when there’s a one hour difference between the 2 posts?

R38 These two earnest Dataloungers posted at the same time while living in different time zones.

This blue-glass lozenge is grotesque and irreligious.

R33 Absolutely. Sunglasses and caps can't usually hide the fact that the deceased is just that.

Funny how the bicycle royals aren’t above being buried in overly-extravagant trash.

People who die in glass houses....

Nureyev's is made thousands and thousands of mosaic tiles.

We shouldn't be surprised about the fact that she has approved this tacky monstrosity to be her final resting place. After all, we're talking about a woman who was presented with the hideous perpetration below, and thought that wearing what looks like a 5-year-old's attempt at making paper flowers, was a wonderful idea.

She doesn't have an ounce of taste and is super flashy and gaudy in all her choices. Which goes to show that being born into royalty doesn't necessarily make anyone refined.

It is a hard look to carry off.

It’s the same color as her teeth.

I like it. It’s tacky, romantic and gaudy all at the same time.

OP's article is from 2018.

Her early childhood is very interesting, she was born a week after the Nazis invaded and occupied Denmark.

Oh, so she’s literally a Hitler Jugend

Amateurs

R44 What are you talking about? Denmark and The Netherlands are different countries. Do try to keep up.

[quote]OP's article is from 2018.

Your point being?

She'll never get her own rock opera.

It does look like an Advil suppository.

Fun!

I’d have opted for cremation with a blue Royal Dansk butter cookies tin for an urn.

R37 Don’t look at this link!

Miriam looks fun.

If they’re going to have a taxidermy funeral for their loved one, why not go all out and do a horror theme, like The Monkey’s Paw? For instance, instead of playing poker in sunglasses, I think it would be fun to pose the deceased scratching at a door or window. It’s also a great way to save money on restorative work!

This is a mess!

Who signed off on this greasy thing?!

R60, I had that cab driver in San Francisco just last week

It’s terrible! But I guess the wearer of The Golden Poppies headgear would have such a coffin.

How dare you!

The Golden Poppies are exquisite!

It calls to mind that underwater restaurant in Dubai.

That poppy tiara also matches her teeth. Are whitestrips unavailable in Denmark?

So Jeff Koons designs tombs for Danish royalty?

Margrethe has always been an awkward dresser. Her daywear is unimaginable tailored and quite plain, with occasional weird color blocking and fake plastic jewelry. Her evening wear is like drag: big poofy skirts and shoulders in shiny satins and metallic threads. What saves her is her important family jewels which are quite old and she wears marvelously, and her tower of silver hair which gives her the look of an 18th century empress.

I had no idea that the Danish were into the Trump aesthetic.

This looks tacky as hell.

OP, Americans as you know have zero interest in history and the symbolism attached to it so I wouldn't expect an intelligent discussion here.

Please do explain it to us peons.

R69 I've always thought that when a fashion designer asks the other Queens such as Elizabeth II or Beatrix(former Queen of the Netherlands) what they want, they just say the opposite of whatever you might have done for Margrethe.

[quote]OP, Americans as you know have zero interest in history and the symbolism attached to it so I wouldn't expect an intelligent discussion here.

Great point, R72. For instance, the Comedy and Tragedy masks amongst the gilded array of symbols on top of the sarcophagus. Most Americans don’t know what they mean, and that the Danish invented theatre.

I did not know that, r75.

Cadavers are highly susceptible to mold infestation especially if exposed to warm, moist areas for an extended period of time.

Good news for all you concern trolls worried about the Queen’s decomposing remains being on public display - she’s going to be entombed in a crypt UNDERNEATH this abomination. It’s actually a “sepulchral monument,” not a sarcophagus.

So the figure in the center is just representative? She doesn’t go inside it?

I like it. Now I feel like I need one.

The theatrical masks harken to Queen Margrethe’s passion for stage design and costuming.

^Or shrieking queen.

[quote] she’s going to be entombed in a crypt UNDERNEATH this abomination.

Absolutely INCORRECT.

The coffin is described as "a futuristic-looking glass case with an inner glass bubble - space for two life-sized royal figures –Queen Margrethe and her consort, Prince Henrik." When it was designed 15 years ago, Henrik was intended to be inside the four ton glass case next to Margrethe. When he declined that, it was too late to change the design, and it was completed as originally planned..to hold both of their remains. She will be placed inside the translucent inner bubble inside the glass case.

Henrik sounds like quite the cunt!

I’ve looked at pictures from all different angles and lighting, and it just looks like a Star Trek movie prop, tacky and overdone.

I don’t like it. The base is so busy, yet reminiscent of hotel furniture. The gold barge is a mess, overcrowded and silly.

It’s fucking undignified.

What the hell, I think I’ll get one for myself, just for laughs. You can get a kit at Home Depot:

No, OP R82, YOU are incorrect:

[quote]The sarcophagus itself is of cast glass, and, in a hollow space in the glass, two figures representing The Queen and Prince Henrik are sand-blasted on the inner side. Allegories, heraldry and symbols in gilded bronze are found on the top. The Queen will be laid to rest in a crypt under the sepulchral monument.

In other words, it’s a monument made to LOOK like a sarcophagus, marking the burial spot of the Queen. That said, I admit it’s confusing.

Is the plan to embalm her then?

R87 As far as I know, embalming is not practiced in Denmark.

Lenin's sarcophagus looks like they put heavy weights on the top, to keep him from getting out and feasting on the living.

My favorite royal tomb is that of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Westminster Abbey. It was built by her son, James I, close to the tomb of Mary's arch-enemy, Queen Elizabeth I. James deliberately made his mother's tomb was larger and more ostentatious that Elizabeth's! It's a "Fuck YOU" that still works after 500 years.

As for Margarethe's tomb, it looks glorious and original from some angles, cheap and tasteless from others. Not what I'd pick for myself if I were a queen... wait, a monarch.

Sorry, here's Mary's tomb.

[quote] [R87] As far as I know, embalming is not practiced in Denmark

As it will be transparent, cryogenic freezing might be an option. You obviously do not want to show decay.

[quote]That poppy tiara also matches her teeth. Are whitestrips unavailable in Denmark?

They're the color of Cheddar cheese

Can I smoke in there?

Only if you’re cremated, Your Highness.

Sorry, R86, you still don't understand the concept.

The glass is etched on the inner compartment for two reasons...to show the resting place of the Monarch prior to her being entombed inside, and also to mask the body once she is. This really isn't very difficult; link ANY source that states that she will be buried UNDER .her sarcophagus, the definition of which is a coffin into which a body is placed.

I’m an American and I like history, contrary to the blanket statement made above. Just certain things in history. Maybe some Americans dislike history, but Don generalize us.

It’s offensive to let your teeth get like that.

Why is she such a cunt?

don’t generalize…damned iPad Air…

R96 Are you talking about the ACTUAL sarcophagus/tomb down under the floor of the church, and not the representational monument above it? Because if the Queen were to be inserted into that tight space inside the glass capsule, her body would have to be thoroughly eviscerated and then mummified to prevent the anaerobic bacterial decay that would cause her corpse to bloat and, eventually, explode.

The Danes know what they're doing. Not to worry about Margie's rotting corpse.

FFS R96 you seem to be the only one that can’t grasp the concept…SHE WILL BE ENTOMBED INSIDE THE GLASS SARCOPHAGUS. It was designed to have enough room inside for both her and Prince Henrik, who has chosen to be cremated instead. THERE IS NO TOMB UNDER THE FLOOR, not has there ever been plans for one. The fact that you will something to be only works in fairy tales.

As I said previously, show us even one source that claims she will be buried in the floor.

R102 See the official press release at R86.

^sorry…the above response was for R100, not R96

It looks like something you’d see in the front foyer of a Las Vegas Expo.

R102 Specifically, the part of the press release at R86, which states:

[quote]The Queen will be laid to rest in a crypt under the sepulchral monument.

Note the terms “crypt” and “under,” OP.

I love it!!

How much is it?

Allegedly the Danish and Norwegian royals are the most cash poor, totally supported by taxpayers. Don’t know about the Swedish royals. But King Harald of Norway is worth approximately $10 million USD. Maybe a lot to you and me, but po’ af compared with other royals in Europe.

To me it resembles a flattened silicone tit supported by 3 beetles and with a solid-gold grasshopper sitting on top.

I see other symbolic elements. The Queen’s crown, rendered in gold, is on the left along with the orb and scepter. A gold copy of a semi-abstract polar bear carved from narwhal is there, which normally sits on The Queen’s desk and can be seen at her annual New Years Speech, and a gold Dachsund, Margrethe and Henrik’s favorite breed of dog. I think I see grape leaves, which would harken to Henrik’s passion for winemaking and the royal couples chateau and vineyard in France.

Sorry, but it's really a monstrosity.

R111. Thanks. J'adore symbolism like this. Her choices are meaningful to her and rather sweet. Love the dog.