New on meadows! Queen Margrethe of Denmark, who abdicated the throne last month, wins the prize for her set and costume design for the Netflix film

The former queen of Denmark has won a prestigious award for her costume and set design for a Danish Netflix film, just weeks after her abdication.

Margrethe, who shocked royal watchers when she announced her unexpected abdication on December 31, announced her award on Instagram.

She worked on the Netflix film Ehrengard – The Art of Seduction, for which she received a Robert Award as costume designer of the year.

On Instagram, the royal family wrote: 'I am deeply grateful, moved and proud of the recognition that the Robert Award represents.

'Receiving an award given by the industry itself makes me extremely happy, and it was a great joy and pleasure to be able to contribute to the expression of the film.

'I would like to thank the whole team behind the film, but especially everyone who turned my ideas, sketches and drawings into reality – not least the talented people who sewed and worked with the many costumes.'

Many are unaware of the former monarch's creative talents, but as a child she dreamed of becoming an artist.

According to the Royal website: 'Princess Margrethe started attending the Royal Theater with her parents at an early age, where she attended August Bournonville's ballet Napoli in 1948, which made a deep impression on the princess.'

According to Danish law, only men were allowed to ascend the throne until she was thirteen. But when the constitution was changed to allow women to rule, Margrethe became the heir presumptive, changing the course of her life and becoming queen in 1972.

However, she continued to work on her drawings and other works of art until about the age of twenty.

After studying a degree in prehistoric archeology at the University of Cambridge, as well as Aarhus University in Denmark, the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics, she was inspired to take up art again after reading JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

According to the Danish royal family: 'As an adult, The Queen herself became involved in ballet as a set designer and costume designer.

'From the mid-eighties and thirties, The Queen helped with the annual ballet performances at a friend's dance school in Næstved, where the grand piano sets and costumes were conjured up with enormous imagination from the available materials. Very special were the numerous paper hats at the performances, which The Queen herself devised and made.'

Margrethe (photo, left) is working on footage for the Danish production Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,

After working on amateur productions, Margrethe turned more professionally, after being approached by Danmarks Radio's TV theater, which approached 'The Queen in 1987 and persuaded her to help as a set designer and costume designer for a TV production of HC Andersen's fairy tale. The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep'.

For an ambitious new production of August Bournonville's ballet A Folk Tale, at the Royal Theater in 1990, the then Queen designed the scenography and many costumes.

The Royal Theater followed in 1990 with an ambitious new production of August Bournonville's ballet A Folk Tale, for which The Queen designed the scenography and many costumes.

Around 2000, Margethe joined Tivoli's Pantomime Theater.

Her goal was to “revive the theater's small ballets, which are performed free of charge for amusement park visitors.”

Her first performance as a set designer and costume designer was the HC Andersen-inspired ballet Love in the Dustbin in 2001.

“Since then, ballets based on several of the author's fairy tales have been published, including Thumbelina, The Tinder Box, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Swineherd and The Snow Queen, as well as The Nutcracker and Cinderella,” her biography says.

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, which was announced last year.

AWARD-WINNING: A still from Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, which was worked on by a royal crew member

According to Netflix: 'In the fairytale kingdom of Babenhausen, a young, self-proclaimed love expert, Mr. Cazotte (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), is hired by the scheming Grand Duchess (Sidse Barbett Knudsen) to help her secure an heir.

While searching for a suitable future princess, Mr. Cazotte teaches the timid and introverted Crown Prince Lothar (Emil Aron Dorph) the art of seduction and lovemaking.

'But their plan soon fails when an illegitimate heir is conceived and the royal family is forced to take refuge in Rosenbad Castle. Here, as rivals within the royal family move toward their plan, Cazotte himself falls in love with Ehrengard (Alice Esther Bier Zandén), the bridesmaid, and gradually discovers that he is, in fact, no expert on love at all.”

Speaking about her role in the design department when the project was announced, Margrethe said she was “very happy” to be part of this project.

Praising the author, she described the work as “aesthetic” and revealed: “I have tried to interpret Blixen's fantastic universe in the creation of the découpages and costumes and I look forward to seeing Ehrengard's story come to life in this film.”

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction is now streaming on Netflix in Denmark.