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Queen Margrethe of Denmark was all smiles as she undertook her first engagement since being hospitalised two months ago.
The royal, 84, who abdicated from the throne in January in favour of her son King Frederik, presented the Ebbe Munck Award at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The award was set up in 1975 to commemorate the life of the World War II resistance fighter, and it honours those who work within the fields that were of interest to Ebbe.
Looking beautiful in a blue silk blazer and matching dress, and carrying a walking stick, the former Danish Queen was beaming as she shook hands with delegates.
The Queen suffered a fall at Fredensborg Castle in September, injuring her neck vertebrae and sustaining a fracture to her left hand.
Following her fall, she was discharged from hospital after one day, but has since been recovering in private. But she looked a picture of health when she presented the awards to recipients, including EU Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager.
In September, a spokesperson for the Danish royal family informed local media that Margrethe had been admitted to the capital’s university hospital for observation after her fall.
The head of communications said at the time: “According to the circumstances, the Queen is doing well but was admitted for observation for the time being.”
In her first interview since the fall, she told Danish paper, Kristeligt Daglad: “If you feel good enough, then you feel good enough. Even though I have now fallen down a flight of stairs and am not quite as mobile as I used to be, I feel well enough.”