"Do you want to see the Queen's crown?" asked Anna, as they reluctantly left the beautiful ballroom.
"The Queen's crown?" said Greta. "The Queen is in Copenhagen now; surely her crown wouldn't be here at Fredensborg."
"She has a crown here, too. It is really lovelier than the one she wears at court," said Anna.
When they came to the garden behind the palace, Greta saw what Anna meant. In the middle of the sloping green lawn there was a huge bed of pansies, arranged in the shape of a crown. In the lower part of the crown the pansies were all purple, and in the upper part they were all gold.
"You are right, Anna. This is prettier than any crown of real gold."
"Come, girls. We must be on our way now," said Anna's mother. "We have a long ride ahead of us."
"Are we going to see another castle?" asked Greta.
"Yes, the finest one of all."
After a short drive through a large forest of beech trees, they came to Frederiksborg Castle. It was built on three small islands in the center of a lake. The castle itself was so large that it covered the islands completely and seemed to rise up out of the water itself. When King Frederick built the first castle here, nearly four hundred years ago, he purposely chose these islands in the center of a lake because they were the safest place for a castle. Enemies could not easily reach it here. When this old, old castle was destroyed by fire, a much finer one was built on the islands.