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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:42 am
Margrethe Now Europe's Longest Serving Monarch.
https://www.ibtimes.com/denmarks-margre ... ch-361131809/09/22 AT 9:42 AM
Denmark's popular Queen Margrethe II is now Europe's longest-serving monarch and also its only reigning queen after the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
The artistic and chain-smoking 82-year-old, always impeccably coiffed with her white hair swept up in a bun and hailed for unifying and modernising the Danish monarchy in her 50 years on the throne, has scaled back golden jubilee festivities this weekend following the death Thursday of Britain's head of state.
Margrethe came to the throne at the age of 31 in January 1972 on the death of her father, Frederik IX, becoming the first woman to hold the position of reigning queen in Denmark.
She took her reign name Margrethe II in recognition of Margrethe I, who ruled Denmark from 1375-1412 but never formally held the title.
At the time of her accession, only 45 percent of Danes were in favour of the monarchy, most believing it had no place in a modern democracy.