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Her mother was a daughter of the Swedish royal family, whose reigning king Folke Hubertus Carl XVI. Gustaf is therefore Margrethe's uncle. As a result of a constitutional change in 1953, with which Frederik IX. had also introduced female succession to the throne, Margrethe was officially sworn in as heir to the throne according to the Danish constitution when she came of age on April 16, 1958. After private school education, which also took Margrethe to England, she graduated from high school in 1960. She then completed a one-year law study abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris. This was followed by studying law, political science, economics and history in Copenhagen and Aarhus. Margrethe completed her studies with further stays abroad at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
Margrethe was already being prepared for her future high office during her school and university years. While traveling at home and abroad, she got to know her own country and the world as well as the representative functions of the Danish head of state. In 1967, the Crown Princess married the French diplomat Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. After she had already taken over the regency at the beginning of 1972 due to her father's illness, she succeeded the late Frederik IX on January 14, 1972. on the throne. Since then, as Chairwoman of the State Council and Head of State, Margrethe II has primarily performed representative functions in coordination with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. However, she also uses the public influence given to her for socio-political commitment, through which she has campaigned against increasing xenophobia in recent years.
The Queen and Prince Henrik of Denmark made numerous state trips through Europe, the Far East and North and South America. The general popularity that Margrethe II enjoyed as monarch made the Danish monarchy an institution recognized by the population and still popular today. In addition to state affairs, the Queen is also artistically talented in many ways. In 1977, for example, she illustrated Tolkien's bestseller "Lord of the Rings". She has already made a name for herself as a costume designer for the theater, as an interior designer and as a ballet dancer. Margrethe II of Denmark was, among other things, awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge and London. In 2000 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. She has two sons with Prince Henrik of Denmark.- Queen Alexandra was born Princess Alexandra Caroline Mary Charlotte Louisa Julia on December 1, 1844. She was the granddaughter of the king of Denmark. She lived an uneventful childhood in the palaces of Denmark with her sister, Marie, who became the mother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. When Alex, as she was called, turned 16 she was considered a great beauty, and won the hand of the heir to the throne of England. She and Prince Albert Edward, or "Bertie", were married on March 10, 1863. They had six children including the future King George V. The first 40 years of marriage were very turbulent for Alexandra. As well as the six children, she had to contend with a brother-in-law (the husband of Bertie's sister Helena) whose family wanted a stake in the Schleswig-Holstein lands that had belonged to the kings of Denmark for generations. Finally in 1901 her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, died, making her husband King Edward VII and she, in turn, Queen Consort. During her time as Queen she did many things to make England better, including the establishment of The Red Cross.
In 1910, however, something happened to change everything. Her husband of almost 50 years died. On his death bed she did a very magnanimous thing: she allowed his mistress, Alice Keppel, to say goodbye to him. After his death she lived at the house in which she had lived during her marriage. Unfortunately, she also lived with the increasing deafness that plagued her life as well as that of her son Albert Victor, who would have become king if he had not died. Alexandra died in 1925 of a heart attack and is buried at Windsor near her husband and mother and father-in-law. - Queen Anne-Marie was born on 30 August 1946 in Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. She was previously married to King Constantine II.
- Prinsesse Benedikte was born on 29 April 1944 in Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. She was previously married to Prins Richard.