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Queen Margrethe's Life in Photos
1940
King Christian X holding Princess Margrethe in an undated photo from 1940.
A baby Princess Margrethe with her parents—then the Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid. Margrethe's full name is Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, named for her maternal grandmother Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, paternal grandmother Queen Alexandrine, her mother Ingrid, and Þórhildur is a nod towards King Christian being the King of Iceland.
Read more: 40+ photos of the Danish Royal Family through the years.
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1941 - 1942
In this portrait of Princess Margrethe, she holds a teddy bear who wears shoes.
1945
During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied Denmark. In 1945, following the liberation of Copenhagen, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (left) reunited with his daughter, Princess Ingrid, and met his granddaughters, Margrethe and Benedikte.
In 2020, Queen Margrethe shared her memories of liberation: "I woke up when I heard people in the streets, not outside my window, but not far from it... I was not chased back to bed. They gave me a big hug."
"Then my father came and said, 'it is peace, the war is over,'" she recounts. "I did not really unders
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Coronation of the Danish monarch
The coronation of the Danish monarch was a religiousceremony in which the accession of the Danishmonarch was marked by a coronation ceremony. It was held in various forms from 1170 to 1840, mostly in Lund Cathedral in Lund, St. Mary's Cathedral in Copenhagen and in the chapel of Frederiksborg Palace in Hillerød.
Enthronements of the Danish monarch may be historically divided into three distinct types of rituals: the medievalcoronation, which existed during the period of elective monarchy; the anointing ritual, which replaced coronation with the introduction of absolute monarchy in 1660; and finally the simple proclamation, which has been used since the introduction of the constitutional monarchy in 1849.
Coronations of the elective monarchy
[edit]Historically an elective monarchy, the Danish kings had been elected and acclaimed at the Thing assemblies; this continued even after the tradition of coronations began. Ultimately, the acclamation rite only ceased with the introduction of hereditary monarchy in 1660, the 1657 acclamation of crown prince Christian (the later Christian V of Denmark) being the last occasion. The first coronation in Scandinavia took place in Bergen in Norway in 1163 or 1164. The first coronation in Denmark