For the 50th anniversary of the throne of Denmark, major events were scheduled for January 2022. All postponed, even the New Year’s banquet. Covid is positive with Princess Mary
No view from the balcony of the royal palace, no banquet at Christiansborg Palace. And no gala. In short, no celebration for the expected 50th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, January 14, 2022. No Royal Jubilee of the year to come, for now. Cause Covid which also infected Princess Mary, wife of the heir to the throne Frederick, before Christmas.
All postponed to late summer, for the pandemic, the solemn celebrations for
the other Royal Jubilee of 2022. Not that of Elizabeth II, British sovereign since 1952 and ready to celebrate 70 years on the throne in London in June 2022. But of Queen Margrethe, sovereign of Denmark since 1972 (but also of the Faroe Islands and Greenland): half a century at the helm of the country ready to celebrate it with solemnity. But that now has to postpone everything, while Denmark faces a serious pandemic situation.
Next January 14, the effective date of the queen’s accession to the throne, perhaps even a symbolic gesture such as the laying of a crown in memory of the parents, King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid, and a celebratory session of the Council of State. Everything will depend on the progress of the infections. And on December 31st there will not even be the traditional New Year’s banquet which in Copenhagen gathers the government, the Speaker of the Parliament as well as the royal family and personalities.
The Queen will instead speak to the country with a TV speech on December 31st
all 18, as per tradition (the only one that survived the winter of Covid 2021).
For once, the Nordic monarchy – simple and Spartan – was ready to an exception to everyday life to celebrate his queen with pomp: Saturday 15 January Margrethe and the royal family should have looked out from the balcony of the Amalienborg palace, a step away from the famous canals, then on the royal chariot to reach the town hall, and in the evening escorted by the Guard Hussar Regiment’s Mounted Squadron, Margrethe enter the Royal Theater of Denmark for a show in her honor. The next day, the spotlight was supposed to be on the Jubilee gala dinner at Christiansborg Palace with all the assembled royal family, Danish personalities and foreign guests. All canceled and postponed. See you next summer. The logo for the Jubilee of the sovereign, literary as the British political commentator Jeremy Paxman defined it, signed by the Danish design agency Kontrapunkt: a multicolor logo like a game of Lego bricks. After all, a Danish symbol (almost) as much as its queen.
Margrethe arrived on the throne of Denmark (the ancestor Christian IX was conquered the nickname of father-in-law of Europe for having placed his daughters in all the royal courts, ed.) one freezing day in mid-January 1972. His royal adventure began in that winter, when from a balcony of the royal palace in Copenhagen the Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag appears to proclaim the 31-year-old Margrethe the new queen of Denmark, after the death of her father Frederick IX. And for half a century the Danes have looked with confidence to their queen who, if fate had not wanted her on a throne, perhaps she would have become an economist, a university researcher, an artist? Who knows. Basically he studied oltrech in Danish universities, Cambridge, the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. He has designed costumes for plays, translated books, especially French classics. Illustrated is the 1977 Danish edition of the world bestseller The Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien and much more.
The only vice, for years, was smoking. His Majesty, who has now also beaten the longevity of William II (lived up to 73 years) and became in effect the longest-lived monarch ever to sit on the throne of Denmark, for years he was a heavy smoker. Weakness then abandoned in order not to set a bad example, after his visit to some convalescents in the hospital with a cigarette in his hand caused a sensation.
His first 40 years of reign were also celebrated with a gal of the great occasions at the royal palace of Christianborg, after an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers and a breakfast at the Hotel de Ville in Copenhagen. But this time, at her Golden Jubilee – next summer – to celebrate the half-century of reign, Margrethe will always have the heir (ever closer to the throne and increasingly active with international travel in the name of her mother) Frederick.
Born on April 16, 1940 in the Amalienborg palace, when the country had not yet overcome the shock of the German occupation which had begun just the previous week, the future queen had been welcomed like a ray of sunshine in the darkness of the Second World War. Baptized on May 14, Margrethe was also given an Icelandic name, Porhildur, as her grandfather, King Christian X of Denmark, was also ruler of Iceland at the time (later independent in 1945). In fact, the throne at the moment of her birth was not supposed to belong to her. Bens to her father’s younger brother, and it was only in 1953 (with the change to the law of succession, following a lengthy review process that began in 1947, when it became clear that Queen Ingrid could no longer have sons) that Margrethe became heir to the throne. Intelligent, studious, thoughtful, in terms of cultural preparation, Margrethe really has no equal among European royalty.
He speaks several languages, from French to Swedish, to English and German, and studied history, archeology, political science and economics. And it was while studying among the benches of the LSE, a historic institution commissioned by the Fabian Society, that the future queen of Denmark met, in the nights of the Swinging London, the love of a lifetime: the French diplomat Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat (who passed away in 2018). It was love at first sight, and the wedding was celebrated in the naval chapel in Copenhagen on June 10, 1967. Then in 2002, when her husband did not appreciate being overshadowed by the heir to the throne during the celebration of the New Year, the beginning of some couple tension: Henri decided to reflect, far from Denmark, in his native France. For the love of Margrethe, Henri had said goodbye to a brilliant career in diplomacy, basically the same fate as Prince Philip who for the sake of Elizabeth renounces military ambitions. Both shared the fate of the princes consorts: without a real role, with a life project to be invented. And the worry of the surname.
Like Philip, her husband, Prince Henri, fought at the court to defend his. Pleased in 2008 by his wife Margrethe who granted him the paternal title of Count of Monpezat, Greve af Monpezat, to his children: Prince Frederik, the heir to the throne, who in 2004 married the Australian Mary Donaldson, and Prince Joachim , who first married Alexandra Manley and then remarried with the French Marie Cavallier. And now Denmark has entered the legend of Shakespeare for the castle of Helsingr where Hamlet pines in doubt To be or not to be?, Forced to postpone the celebration of his queen.
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