Back Margrethe II van Denemarke Afrikaans Margrethe II AMI Margalida II de Dinamarca AN Meregrot II Dēna Cwēn ANG مارغريت الثانية ملكة الدنمارك Arabic مارجريت التانيه ملكه الدنمارك ARZ Margarita II de Dinamarca AST II Marqrete Azerbaijani ایکینجی مارقریت (دانمارک) AZB Маргрэтэ II Byelorussian
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| Queen of Denmark | |||||
| Reign | 14 January 1972 – 14 January 2024 | ||||
| Predecessor | Frederik IX | ||||
| Successor | Frederik X | ||||
| Born | 16 April 1940 Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark | ||||
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| House | Glücksburg[1] | ||||
| Father | Frederik IX | ||||
| Mother | Ingrid of Sweden | ||||
| Religion | Church of Denmark | ||||
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Margrethe II (Danish: [mɑˈkʁeˀtə]; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she was the second-longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV. She is also the world's most recent female reigning monarch.
Margrethe was born into the House of Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King Christian X. She is the eldest child of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid. She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953 when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons, Frederik and Joachim. Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death in January 1972.
Margrethe has worked as a scenographer, a costume designer, and an illustrator of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. Support for the monarchy in Denmark, alongside her personal popularity, gradually rose throughout the course of her reign, attaining around eighty percent by the time of her abdication. She was succeeded by her elder son, Frederik X.
- ^ "150 years of the House of Glücksborg". 15 November 2013. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2014.