Margrethe II

Margrethe II
Margrethe II in 2021
Queen of Denmark
Reign	14 January 1972 – 14 January 2024
Predecessor	Frederik IX
Successor	Frederik X
Born	(1940-04-16) 16 April 1940 (age 84) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Spouse	Henri de Laborde de Monpezat ​ ​ (m. 1967; died 2018)​
Issue Detail	Frederik X Prince Joachim
Names Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid
House	Glücksburg[1]
Father	Frederik IX
Mother	Ingrid of Sweden
Religion	Church of Denmark
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Danish royal family
The King The Queen The Crown Prince Princess Isabella Prince Vincent Princess Josephine Queen Margrethe II Prince Joachim Princess Marie Count Nikolai of Monpezat Count Felix of Monpezat Count Henrik of Monpezat Countess Athena of Monpezat
Extended royal family
The Dowager Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Queen Anne-Marie of Greece Greek royal family
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Margrethe II (Danish: [mɑˈkʁeˀtə]; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she was the second-longest reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV. She is also the world's most recent female reigning monarch.

Margrethe was born into the House of Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King Christian X. She is the eldest child of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid. She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953, when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons, Frederik and Joachim. Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death in January 1972.

Margrethe has worked as a scenographer, a costume designer, and an illustrator of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. Support for the monarchy in Denmark, alongside her personal popularity, gradually rose throughout the course of her reign, attaining around eighty percent by the time of her abdication. She was succeeded by her elder son, Frederik X.