An unconscious young man is taken from the intensive care unit at Rigshospitalet, fitted with a neck brace, strapped onto a stretcher, put into an ambulance that, accompanied by a secret service car, two police bikes and a rapid response unit, drive in reverse all the way to the city hall square. Here he's unstrapped from the stretcher, the neck brace is removed and he is quickly dressed in his ceremonial uniform by the paramedics and carefully placed in a fetal position. The rest of his company ride up to him backwards in two columns bringing his horse with them. The horse, carefully instructed, proceeds to prance and as it does so the young man makes a tremendous leap up into the saddle, awakening from his unconscious state the moment he leaves the ground. The startled horse is calmed by the cheer of the crowd and their waving of flags- they are gathered on the square especially for the occasion and have received their cue from the queen who, walking backwards out of the door of City Hall, has waved her hand at them. She now mounts her carriage together with the prince consort and they all ride backwards through the streets of Copenhagen to Amalieborg Castle where the queen retires after a job well done.
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The Royal Guard is stopped (scroll down)
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