For many in Denmark, Queen Margrethe II is the only monarch they’ve ever known. But on Sunday, a new royal era will get underway when she hands power over to her son, Crown Prince Frederik.
For many in Denmark, Queen Margrethe II is the only monarch they’ve ever known. But on Sunday, a new royal era will get underway when she hands power over to her son, Crown Prince Frederik.
For many in Denmark, Margrethe was the only monarch they had ever known. But her abdication, after more than five decades on the throne, paved the way for her son, the former Crown Prince Frederik, to succeed her.
Archive photos show the young princess, then 31, stood at the balcony at Christiansborg Palace - just like her son did today - as the then-Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag proclaimed her monarch.
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