COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, Europe’s longest-serving monarch, will abdicate on Jan 14 after 52 years on the throne and will likely be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik, she introduced on Sunday (Dec 31).
The 83 12 months outdated queen, who ascended the throne in 1972, turned the longest serving monarch in Europe following the dying of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
The queen made the shock announcement on stay TV throughout her conventional New Yr’s Eve speech, which is considered by many within the nation of 5.9 million folks.
In February, she underwent a profitable again surgical procedure.
“The surgical procedure naturally gave rise to fascinated by the long run – whether or not the time had come to go away the accountability to the subsequent technology,” she mentioned.
“I’ve determined that now’s the proper time. On 14 January 2024, 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father, I’ll step down as queen of Denmark,” she mentioned.
“I go away the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik,” she mentioned.
