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Queen AKA "Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid Rex" AKA "Daisy"
Queen of Denmark |
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Queen Margrethe II, the Queen regnant and head of state of Denmark, was born April 16, 1940 at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, to the crown prince Frederik and Princess Ingrid of Sweden. She was baptised on May 14, 1940 at the Naval Church. The little princess was born a week into the German occupation of Denmark, and because she became a source of comfort and a symbol of hope for the Danish people, she was a most extraordinarily beloved and cherished little princess. |
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Princess Margrethe was soon joined by her younger sisters, the princesses Benedikte, born 1944, and Anne-Marie, born 1946. When the Danish people realized in the late 1940s that there was not likely going to be a prince born to King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, the law of succession was changed to include women, making Princess Margrethe the crown princess and heiress to the throne. |
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Princess Margrethe was confirmed on April 1, 1955 at Fredensborg Palace. |
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On princess Margrethe's eighteenth birthday, April 16, 1958, the Heiress Presumptive was given a seat in the Council of State, and the Princess subsequently chaired the meetings of the Council in the absence of the King. She studied political science at Aarhus University between 1961-1962, at Sorbonne in 1963, and at the London School of Economics in 1965. |
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On June 10, 1967 Princess Margrethe of Denmark married a French diplomat, Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat at the Naval Church. Henri received the style and title of "His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark" because of his new position as the spouse of the heiress presumptive to the Danish Throne. Two children were produced from this union: Frederik André Henrik Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark was born on May 26, 1968; and Joachim Holger Waldemar Christian, Prince of Denmark, was born on June 7, 1969. |
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Princess Margrethe's father, King Frederick IX, died in 1972. On the occasion of the accession to the throne on 14 January 1972, Queen Margrethe II became the first Danish Sovereign under the new Act of Succession. Edited from biography at www.spiritus-temporis.com. Older photographs from the publication "Margrethe-Heftet". |
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