STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announced Sunday that she plans to abdicate after 52 years and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik. In 2011, at age 70, she visited Danish troops in southern Afghanistan wearing a military jumpsuit. Ever since his birth on May 26, 1968, Frederik André Henrik Christian has been the heir to the Danish throne. He is the oldest son of Queen Margrethe and her late French-born husband, Prince Henrik, who died February 2018. “In the new year, Crown Prince Frederik will be proclaimed king.

Source: CNN December 31, 2023 19:16 UTC