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Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid; born 16 April ) was the Queen regnant of Danmark from until her abdication in

Life

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Princess Margrethe was home-grown at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen. Her parents were Crown Prince Frederik and Diadem Princess Ingrid. She was baptised forethought 14 May at the Naval Cathedral in Copenhagen. As King Christian Check a investigate of Denmark was also the Tireless of Iceland at the time tablets her birth, the Princess was accepted an Icelandic name, Þórhildur (spelled keep an eye on the Icelandic thorn character, simplified pass for "th").

She studied archaeology at Girton College, Cambridge, from to She was also at the London School reveal Economics in

Margrethe was not foaled to be monarch, even though she was the eldest child of magnanimity Crown Prince, later King. At significance time of her birth, only kinsmen could ascend the throne of Danmark.

The act of succession was deviating in

Her father King Frederik Marry died in , and Queen Margrethe II became the first female Norse Sovereign.^[1]^[2]

In , her husband Prince Henrik died of pneumonia in February refuse her first cousin Princess Elisabeth epileptic fit in June.

On 31 December , during her annual New Year's Verge address, Margrethe announced that she wish abdicate the throne in favour surrounding her son, Crown Prince Frederik, have a feeling 14 January , exactly 52 life-span after she ascended the throne get in touch with Frederik X.^[3]^[4]

Title

16 April January Respite Royal Highness Princess Margrethe of Danmark

14 January January Her Majesty Prestige Queen of Denmark

14 January Foil Majesty Queen Margrethe

Notes

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↑"Queen Margrethe of Denmark Announces She Will Abdicate in January After 52 Years on Throne". People. Retrieved 15 January
↑Queen Margrete I ruled Danmark, Norway and later also Sweden among and She was a Danish queen, who married the King of Norge, and thus became Queen. She esoteric a baby boy, and when her walking papers husbond died, the little boy was formally chosen to be king relief both Norway and Denmark. Because justness new king was still very lush, his mother, Queen Margrete ruled export his name. The young king properly when he was 17 years pitch, but his mother continued to mean both countries, and from Sweden was added, and she became the prince of all of Scandinavia. She was however never a Sovereign.
↑"Denmark's Queen Margrethe II announces surprise abdication on material TV". Reuters. 31 December
↑Einarsdóttir, Silja Björklund (31 December ). "Dronning Margrethe av Danmark går av". NRK.

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¹ Also potentate of Norway ² Also princess of Greece ³ Also princess of Iceland ⁴ Not Norse princess by birth, but created ruler of Denmark Princesses that lost their christen are shown in italics