The Crown Prince bears the Royal Danish Coat of Arms. It can be seen on the Crown Prince's shield (originally known as a stall-plate) in Frederiksborg Castle Chapel as he a Knight of the Order of the Elephant.

The Royal Coat of Arms was authorised by a Royal decree of 5 July 1972 and is, to a large degree, affected by the accession of the Queen that year. It is born by the heirs to the throne. When Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II discontinued the use of the ducal titles, which her predecessors had used officially, the number of quarterings was reduced. Apart from the arms of Denmark, the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, a few historically conditioned quarterings were kept.

The shield is quartered by the Cross of the Dannebrog. In the 1st and 4th quartering are the arms of Denmark, three crowned lions surrounded by nine hearts, dating from the end of 12th Century and having been used by Danish monarchs ever since.

In the 2nd quartering are Southern Jutland’s two lions. This coat of arms was created in the middle of the 13th Century as a cadency of the Danish Coat of Arms and became a permanent part of the Danish King’s shield when Christian I  became Duke of Southern Jutland (Schleswig) in 1460. The reason why it is still used today, is in special recognition of Southern Jutland whose history is very different from that of the rest of Denmark.

The 3rd quartering is divided into three smaller quarters. Originally the three crowns are the Coat of Arms of Sweden; they are here displayed in memory of the union of the three Nordic Kingdoms - the Kalmar Union – which the Danish Kings had alluded to heraldically since 1546, and from 1613 on the basis of a peace treaty with Sweden. The ram is the arms of the Faeroe Islands and originates from the 14th Century. The bear sitting upright has been the arms of Greenland since the 1660’s.

In the centre of the Dannebrog Cross is an escutcheon with the two bars of the Oldenborgs which originate from the 12th century and here indicate that Denmark’s Royal lineage is a branch of the Oldenborg Dynasty. The shield is supported by two savages, known since the time of Christian I.

The shield (stall-plate) of Crown Prince Frederik as a Knight of the Order of the Elephant was painted by Aage Wulff, heraldic painter of the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Knighthood.