Queen Margrethe Beams in New Portraits for Her First Birthday Since Historic Abdication. The former Queen of Denmark posed for photos at Fredensborg Castle with her dog Tillia. By.

Queen Margrethe’s abdication announcement on New Year’s Eve was highly unexpected, and longtime author and royal commentator Phil Dampier told The Telegraph it came as a shock to most Danes.

The 85-year-old Queen abdicated in January 2024, making her elder son the new monarch, King Frederik Queen Margrethe of Denmark returned to royal duties following her hospitalization earlier this ...

Queen Margrethe, 83, sat for most of the event, with Crown Prince Frederik, 55, and Crown Princess Mary, 51, standing to her side. Last year, she underwent an "extensive back surgery" following ...

The Danish Royal Palace has released two new portraits of Queen Margrethe to mark her 84th birthday today.. Looking effortlessly elegant, the royal, who abdicated in favour of her son, King ...

Queen Margrethe arrives to hold a New Year's cure for officers from the Armed Forces at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen on Jan. 4, 2024. Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images.

The queen surprised her nation during her annual New Year’s address by announcing that she would step down on January 14, after 52 years on the throne.

“Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,” a new fantasy dramedy on Netflix, had Queen Margrethe II of Denmark as its costume and production designer.

On Sunday, Frederik X became Denmark's king after his mother, Queen Margrethe II, became the first Danish monarch to abdicate in nearly 900 years.

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II announced during a New Year's Eve address that she plans to abdicate the throne, allowing for her son, Crown Prince Frederik, to take charge. The queen said she would ...

Prince Vincent of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, Prince Christian of Denmark, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Princess Isabella of Denmark and Princess ...