Due to new severe health restrictions announced by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, the very popular sovereign of Denmark has postponed the major celebrations planned for the half-century of her accession to the throne of the small Scandinavian country. It prevents. His 6 million subjects will have a thought for their queen this Friday, January 14, exactly fifty years after having succeeded his father, Frédéric IX, passionate about the navy and railways, gifted pianist who had conducted the national radio orchestra. .
On this day in 1972, at the age of 31, the daughter of Princess Ingrid of Sweden therefore became the youngest head of state in the world after her brother-in-law, King Constantine of Greece, her junior by six weeks.
Surprisingly, she is titled Margrethe II when she is the first woman to reign in Denmark by an amendment to Article 2 of the Constitution, ratified by referendum on June 5, 1953. Indeed, the previous Margrethe, who had lived in XIVth…
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