A king nicknamed Lilibet; the other, Daisy. One is Britain’s longest-reigning royal, skilled with humor in disarming world leaders. The other was educated at Cambridge, often seen with a cigarette dangling from his lips and dance one roller coaster in May to mark her Golden Jubilee.
Although they ruled from capitals hundreds of miles apart in Europe, they always met and shared family, children and other problems.
When Lilibet, more known Queen Elizabeth IIdied last Thursday at the age of 96, Daisy, aka Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, became the reigning queen of Europe.
Elizabeth reigned for 70 years. Margrethe marked 50 years leading one of the oldest monarchies in Europe. As news of the British royal’s death spread around the world, 82-year-old Margrethe scaled back her plans to hold a celebration of her own, calling for A moment of silence and promptly sent a letter of grief to Elizabeth’s eldest son, King Charles III, which read: “We will miss her immensely.”
More than friends, queens from the same lineage dated Queen Victoria. When they were satisfied, Margrethe recalled in an interview with British broadcaster ITV News in May, they used their nicknames and had an “emotional” relationship.
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Margrethe, the eldest of three daughters of King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid, ascended the throne at the age of 13 when Denmark made a constitutional change to allow female succession and the king passed on a younger brother to his daughter.
A good part of her schooling took place in England: Margrethe attended boarding school there, going to University of Cambridge to study archeology and spent time at the London School of Economics.
In 1966, while passing New York on her way to Latin America, she stopped to an interview with The New York Times. She allows even though she will try Spanish during her tour, “I don’t know if it will work.”
“I speak English, French and I wouldn’t starve in Germany,” she said later.
After the Danish Parliament accept her engagement with Count Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat, a French diplomat, a member of the nobility, they got married in 1967. (The wedding is delay News reported that the couple had boarded a plane to the Mexican island of Cozumel for their honeymoon.
Margrethe joins the rear throw Her father died in January 1972. At the time, most Danes considered the royal family to be an anachronism in a modern democracy. But now, surveys indicate that a majority support the Danish monarchy.
That was possible thanks in no small part to Queen Margrethe.
She is extremely popular in Denmark and attracts many compliments on modernize that monarchy. An artistic mark runs through her: She has illustration Reports say the book “Lord of the Rings” has produced works of art worthy of museums.
Of her two sons, Crown Prince Frederik is her successor. But Queen Margrethe swore, “I will stay on the throne until I descend.”
Having personally avoided major scandals during her reign, the queen faced a setback in 2017, when her husband was completely tilted towards the grudge he had nurtured during his reign. 50 years.
Prince Henrik scoffed at not being called a king – or at least a king’s assistant – and has long complained about not having cash of his own.
Stephanie Surrugue, a journalist and author of a biography of the prince, said: “The first hint came around his 50th birthday, when he said on TV that he found it difficult to be ask his wife for pocket money to buy cigarettes.
In the end, he got his salary, but that was not the end of his wound. At the age of 83, in an epic match of the royal pique, Henrik announced that he no longer wanted to be buried with the queen.
Six months later, the prince is dead. After a small ceremony, he was cremated, local reports said. Half his ashes was scattered over Danish waters, and the other was buried in the private garden of a castle north of Copenhagen.
Alain Delaquérière Contributing research.
