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Queen Margaret II of Denmark In her New Year’s Eve speech, she announced that she would abdicate at the beginning of the new year. This means that her son, Crown Prince Frederik, will take the throne.
Denmark will soon no longer have a queen, but a king. The current Queen Margaret II announced on New Year’s Eve in a live broadcast that she wanted to abdicate on January 14th. “I will leave the throne to my eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik,” she was quoted as saying by the BBC.
The 83-year-old queen underwent back surgery in February this year. Although it was successful for her, it still marked a certain milestone for the queen. “The operation obviously gave me the impetus to think about the future – whether it was time to pass on the responsibility to the next generation,” she said.
Margaret II She ascended the throne in 1972 when she married her father Frederik IX. replaced. So it happened, as Reuters reminds, after the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, she became the longest-reigning monarch in Europe.
Similar to Great Britain, the monarch in Denmark is only a symbolic head of state and does not directly intervene in the country’s political events. In contrast to the British monarchs, the Danish monarchs do not indulge in elaborate ceremonies such as elaborate coronations. The then Prime Minister carried out the accession of the current Queen to the throne with only a short statement.
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