Queen Margrethe of Denmark has scaled down celebrations to mark her 50 years on Europe’s oldest throne following the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II, the Danish royal palace introduced on Friday.
Queen Margrethe, 82, lauded Britain’s overdue queen as “a towering figure among European monarchs and a great inspiration to us all”, and said that “we shall miss her terribly.”
Flags at the Danish royal palace in Copenhagen have been diminished at half-staff on Friday.
Palace press spokeswoman Lene Balleby mentioned the adjustments to the celebrations programme have been made on “the want of the (Danish) queen.”
Two occasions scheduled for Saturday — an look by means of Margrethe at the Amalienborg Palace balcony to greet throngs of well-wishers in addition to a experience throughout the capital in a horse-drawn carriage — were cancelled.
A lunch at Copenhagen City Hall has been postponed, whilst occasions together with a efficiency on the Royal Theatre’s Old Stage, a spiritual provider and a Sunday night ceremonial dinner will likely be curtailed.
Margrethe is now Europe’s longest-ruling monarch. The Danish royal used to be proclaimed queen on 15 January 1972, an afternoon after her father, King Frederik IX, died following a brief sickness.
