Although
it has always been a topic for fiction
, royalty - as a narrative topic - became coveted after the global success of The Crown,
the Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
.
Shortly after the premiere of the sixth season - divided into two parts - the TV industry announced that a biopic about the former Danish queen Margaret II
is already underway , who abdicated a week ago, but will continue to have the honorary title of queen.
.
For now,
the project is in the pre-production stage and does not have a defined streaming platform
for its launch.
But
its production is confirmed, with the guarantee that the general production will be carried out by the same team as Borgen,
the excellent series about the Prime Minister of Denmark, an audiovisual gem no matter how you look at it.
Margarita II abdicated on January 14 of this year in favor of her son Federico
, with whom she visited Argentina a few years ago.
The series "will reveal an important story that concerns all of Denmark,
told from the point of view of the Danish royal family and centered on Margaret
," said TV2 producer
Pernille Bech Christensen
in a statement .
For the moment, the script has its original title
Af Guds nade
(which can be translated as
"By the Grace of God"
), and will place
the year 1940 as the starting point of the story, since that is when the brand new former queen was born: Ariana
, came into this world on April 16.
In three months she will be 84 years old
.
The story will alternate between her personal life and her arrival to the throne on January 14, 1972.
TV2 and the company Sam Productions -
the same company that produced Borgen, about the vicissitudes of Danish political life, also with a woman as the central character
- have been working on the new project for 18 months, but there
are still no definitions of the cast
or the broadcast.
"It is the story of a family, an institution and an anachronism that struggles to retain its relevance in modern times," said Bech Christensen.
Like the successful series
The Crown
, which immersed the world in the history of the British monarchy,
the Danish series will address the transformations of the Danish royal family and society.
Filming will begin in 2025.
Queen Margaret II of Denmark and her son Frederick, current king, when they visited Buenos Aires.
The nobility of Denmark
The royal family enjoys a high level of popularity in this Scandinavian country of 5.9 million inhabitants.
More than 100,000 people attended the proclamation of Frederick X
as the new king.
The life of Margarita,
set designer, charismatic, translator and costume designer
, had already been told in a musical titled
Margrethe
, but it had never had a series format.
After her resignation, she continues to hold the title of queen honorably and
maintains the treatment of majesty
.
She was the first - and so far the only - woman to hold the title of crown princess of Denmark, between 1953 and 1972.
Queen Margaret II of Denmark, celebrating the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
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Born into the
House of Glücksburg
, a royal house with origins in northern Germany, she is the eldest of the daughters of Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden.
He succeeded his father after his death, on January 14, 1972 (
he celebrated 52 years in royal power
).
She had previously been made her father's legal heir in 1953, when
a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne
.
Margaret became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I
, ruler of the Scandinavian countries between 1375 and 1412 during the Kalmar Union.
In 1967 she married
Enrique de Laborde de Monpezat
, with whom she had two sons:
Federico X
(born 1968) and
Joaquín
de Denmark (born 1969).
Having been on the throne for 52 years, she is
the second longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV
.
And, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom,
she had become the only woman to head a monarchy
.
On December 31, 2023, during the New Year's speech, she announced that she would abdicate in favor of Prince Frederick (current King Frederick X).
Source AFP