Queen Margrethe II offers a New Year’s speech and reveals her abdication from Christian IX’s Palace, Amalienborg Castle, in Copenhagen, on Sunday,Dec 31, 2023.
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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II revealed Sunday that she prepares to leave the throne to give way for her child, Crown Prince Frederik.
The queen revealed throughout her New Year’s speech that she would relinquish onJan 14 th, which is the 52 nd anniversary of her own accession to the throne at age 31 following the death of her dad, King Frederik IX.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen validated the choice in a press release that commemorated the 83- year-old emperor, providing a “heartfelt thank you to Her Majesty the Queen for her lifelong dedication and tireless efforts for the Kingdom.”
The 6-foot-tall (1.82- meters-tall), chain-smoking Margrethe has actually been among the most popular public figures inDenmark She frequently strolled the streets of Copenhagen practically unescorted and won the appreciation of Danes for her warm good manners and for her skills as a linguist and designer.
An eager skier, she belonged to a Danish females’s flying force system as a princess, participating in judo courses and endurance tests in the snow. Margrethe stayed difficult even as she got older. In 2011, at age 70, she went to Danish soldiers in southern Afghanistan using a military one-piece suit.
As emperor, she crisscrossed the nation and frequently checked out Greenland and the Faeroe Islands– the 2 semi-independent areas that become part of the Danish Realm– and was fulfilled all over by cheering crowds.
