Did Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II Abdicate to Save Her Son’s Marriage?
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Queen Margrethe II’s New Year's Eve announcement that she will abdicate the Danish throne has set off a round of wild speculation that the royal made the move to salvage the marriage of her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik.
Certainly, it was a decision that few knew was coming; witness the compilations of astonished reactions doing the rounds on X, which essentially comprise a lot of people screaming, “Nej!” in disbelief.