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Ellen rests in the arms of her mother in the picture that will be sent to the little Prince of Denmark and his parents.

”The picture is a present from Hune Church. We also tell the story of the link between Denmark and Tasmania.” P. E. Tranholm-Pedersen.

FLAG-FLYING DAY: Newly christened Ellen a link in the Tasmanian connection with Hune Church

By Grete Mill, NORDJYSKE  16 October 2005.

HUNE:  ”If it will give a pleasure to anybody, it is OK with us. That is why we said yes. It was also very  cheerful.  And maybe she will become his future wife?”

Marianne Engelbrechtsen, Pandrup, jokes with the connection of her and Allan Blichfeldt's daughter Ellen to the new prince of all Denmark.

The little girl is a little more than three months old.

A photo of Ellen Blichfeldt Engelbrechtsen taken outside Hune Church together with her family, the Vicar and parishioners right after her baptism on Sunday will be among the presents to the little prince and his parents, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, because both the flag of Denmark and the flag of Tasmania were flown at the church.

It has nothing to do with the roots of the princess of Pandrup.

But the merging, the happy event in the Royal family, the baptism of the new citizen of Pandrup, and the possession of the flag of Tasmania, and the background of it, gave the idea.

When Hune Church was presented with the flag of Tasmania last summer from an elderly lady from Tasmania, she had a subtle remark: ”You might use it when Frederik and Mary have had their baby.”

”The picture is the present from Hune Church. At the same time we tell the story of our connection between Denmark and Tasmania,”
states Vicar P. E. Tranholm-Pedersen. It is long and tortuous.

The Pilot from Tasmania
Observant readers will recall the story of the now 86-year-old Judy Lewis from Tasmania who last summer visited Hune Church together with her two sons.

Primarily their goal was the churchyard where her brother, a pilot of the Royal Australian Air Force, was buried. He was killed by the Germans over the North Sea during World War 2. His body was washed ashore near Blokhus, and he was buried in Hune.

For 60 years Judy Lewis knew nothing of his fate, but thanks to the persistant endeavours of Erik Normann of the Parochial Council and the Embassy of Australia the bonds were tied.

Then the Vicar, the Parochial Council and the Choir of Hune Church had highlighted the grave and the story of the pilot as an untradional way of marking the wedding of Prince Frederik and Mary wedding on 15 May.

A beautiful memorial ceremony was held to remind us that freedom can not be taken for granted, and in that connection Erik Normann said that he would try to find relatives.

The grave of the killed pilot in Hune was also a subject of conversation at a dinner of the Embassy of Australia for the Crown Prince Couple, because the wine came from the estate of his family in Tasmania. An emplyee of the Embassy knew the connection which has also been described by  the press in Australia.

Now also Ellen will become a part of the story of the Tasmanian family in Hune as the picture will also be sent to 86-year-old Judy Lewis from Hune Church.