Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14, ending her 50-year reign.
“Denmark Bids Farewell to a Monarch’s Legacy on the 52nd Anniversary of Her Reign” Announcing her intention to abdicate and hand the throne over to her son, Crown Prince Frederick, was Queen Margrethe II of Denmark during a New Year’s Eve speech. January 14, 1972, the 52nd anniversary of the queen’s ascension to the throne,…