Skodsborg continued its unique dual evolution as a summer residence for the very rich, with two hotels and a spa catering to the same clientele - along with its role as an active industrial town producing paper, cloth, and hats.

He wanted a place away from the court gossip at Amalienborg aimed at his down to earth commoner wife, Louise Rasmussen, enabled with the title of Countess Danner.

The king, who three years earlier had signed the Danish constitution cementing parliamentary rule, wanted peace and quiet to ride, hunt, and fish.

He was an amateur archaeologist and outdoorsman who enjoyed excavating the Bronze Age burial mounds in the surrounding woodland and sleeping in his tent.

In 1913, Skodsborg saw the creation of Dansk Hattefabrik A/S (Danish Hat Factory Ltd), established by the visionary industrialist Hans Cohen, who came from Berlin.

Rolighed, meaning "tranquility", was originally a large wooden house built in 1794 for the Norwegian civil servant Carsten Anker.