Tag: Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Step Down

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, unexpectedly declared that she would abdicate her throne after more than a half-century, announcing in her New Year’s speech on Sunday that her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, would succeed her. In her speech, Margrethe, 83, said that her age and health were factors in […]

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How the Queen of Denmark Shaped the Look of Netflix’s “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction”

Once upon a time, there was a princess in Denmark who aspired to become an artist. Though she was the eldest child of the country’s reigning king, for the first 12 years of the princess’s life, only men had the right to inherit the throne. That changed when the Danish constitution was amended in 1953, […]

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