COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II introduced Sunday that she plans to go away the throne to make means for her son, Crown Prince Frederik.
The Queen introduced throughout her New Year’s speech that she would abdicate on Jan. 14th, which is the 52nd anniversary of her personal accession to the throne at age 31 following the dying of her father, King Frederik IX.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen confirmed the choice in a information launch that paid tribute to the 83-year-old monarch, providing a “heartfelt thank you to Her Majesty the Queen for her lifelong dedication and tireless efforts for the Kingdom.”
The 6-foot-tall, chain-smoking Margrethe has been one of the vital common public figures in Denmark. She usually walked the streets of Copenhagen nearly unescorted and gained the admiration of Danes for her heat manners and for her skills as a linguist and designer.
A eager skier, she was a member of a Danish ladies’s air power unit as a princess, collaborating in judo programs and endurance exams within the snow. Margrethe remained robust at the same time as she grew older. In 2011, at age 70, she visited Danish troops in southern Afghanistan carrying a navy jumpsuit.
As monarch, she crisscrossed the nation and usually visited Greenland and the Faeroe Islands, the 2 semi-independent territories which can be a part of the Danish Realm and was met all over the place by cheering crowds.
