Denmark's Queen Margrethe abdicated 'to save her son Crown Prince Frederik's marriage to Princess Mary - and the Crown - amid rumours of his affair with a Mexican socialite', experts say

The Danish monarch, 83, announced in her annual New Year's Eve speech that she will step down on January 14 - the first abdication in the Nordic state for 500 years.

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