For other people with the same name, see Margaret of Denmark (disambiguation).
Margrethe II
Margrethe II in 2012
Queen of Denmark
Reign
14 January 1972 – 14 January 2024
Predecessor
Frederik IX
Successor
Frederik X
Born
(1940-04-16) 16 April 1940 (age 84) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Spouse
Henri de Laborde de Monpezat
(m. 1967; died 2018)
Issue Detail
Frederik X
Prince Joachim
Names
Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid
House
Glücksburg[1]
Father
Frederik IX of Denmark
Mother
Ingrid of Sweden
Religion
Church of Denmark
Signature
Danish royal family
The King The Queen
The Crown Prince
Princess Isabella
Prince Vincent
Princess Josephine
Queen Margrethe II
Prince Joachim Princess Marie
Count Nikolai of Monpezat
Count Felix of Monpezat
Count Henrik of Monpezat
Countess Athena of Monpezat
Extended royal family
The Dowager Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Greek royal family
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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.
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.
As sovereign, Margrethe received 42 official state visits and she undertook 55 foreign state visits herself.[2][3] Margrethe has worked as a scenographer, a costume designer, and an illustrator of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. She and the royal family have made several other foreign visits.[2] During her reign, support for the monarchy in Denmark remained consistently high at around 82%, as did Margrethe's personal popularity.[4][5] 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.
^ ab"Stats- og officielle besøg" [State and official visits]. Kongehuset (in Danish). 4 August 2020. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
^"Statsbesøg til Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland" [State visit to the Federal Republic of Germany]. Kongehuset (in Danish). 22 September 2021. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Stjer, Christian (2 June 2012). "Danskerne er vilde med kongehuset | Voxmeter" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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