Happy Birthday Queen Margrethe! 👑🇩🇰
Born just a week after the Nazi invasion, Margrethe grew up in the shadow of occupation. Her grandfather, King Christian X, refused to leave Denmark and she lived confined to palace walls with no siblings to play with. Her father, King Frederik IX, ascended the throne in 1947.A 1953 change to succession put Margrethe first in line, and on her eighteenth birthday she was handed a seat in the Council of State, chairing meetings in her father’s absence. Margrethe was educated privately at N.
She took over as head of the Church of Denmark, chair of the Council of State, commander-in-chief of the Danish armed forces and, following a family tradition, colonel-in-chief of the British Army’s Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, a lady of the Order of the Garter and a knight of the Spanish Orden del Toisón de Oro .Alongside official duties, Margrethe is an accomplished painter. Her illustrations have appeared in the Danish version of J.R.
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