The chain-smoking 'people's monarch': How Denmark's Queen Margrethe defied convention by doing her own supermarket shopping and lighting cigarettes in public - and was even a set designer for a Netflix film

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II shocked the world tonight announcing her abdication from the throne in her traditional New Year's Eve speech.

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