When H.R.H. the Crown Prince turned 30, it was decided that a tribute march should be written just as it was the case when the Queen's Parade March (Dronning Margrethe II's Parademarch) had to be found, an open competition was announced to submit the best bids for a march for the Crown Prince.
However, it was not one of these submitted marches from the competition that ended up being the final honor march. The composer Jens Vilhelm Pedersen, who is also known as Fuzzy, was subsequently asked if he could come up with an offer for a march, and together with the Crown Prince he developed what is today the Crown Prince's official honor march. The march is orchestrated by Stig Sønderriis, trumpeter at the Royal Life Guards Music Corps.
As in the old marches of H.C. Lumbye, in the Crown Prince's Honnørmarch, military signals have been inserted at the start of the piece. These trumpet signals have been used since ancient times as a command that the King or another commander-in-chief has arrived. In the Crown Prince's Honnørmarch, in addition to the King's signal, the navy's signal is also woven into the piece of music, and in addition there are references to the American marching King, John Philip Sousa's "Washington Post March" and Carl Nielsen's "Som en rejselysten flåde".