Ok, so Denmark’s ceremony was not strictly a coronation – rather a “proclamation” of the transition from the country’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Margrethe II, to her son, now King Frederik X, after her surprise abdication on New Year’s Eve.
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Denmark's Queen Margrethe II on Thursday defied a cold spell to ride through the streets of Copenhagen in a gold-coated horse carriage for the last time as monarch before handing over the throne to her son Crown Prince Frederik next week. The 83-year-old queen, who was crowned in 1972, announced on live TV during her traditional New Year's Eve speech that she intends to abdicate the throne, taking many in the country of 5.9 million people by surprise. "The Danish royal family is very accessible to the Danish people because they participate in quite normal things, which is extraordinary," she added.
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