Queen Margrethe rushed to hospital after fall
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, who abdicated in January in favour of her son King Frederik and his Australian wife Queen Mary, has been hospitalised after an accident at her home.
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Queen Margrethe of Denmark has been rushed to hospital following a fall at Fredensborg Castle.
The 84-year-old is in stable condition, but will remain in the hospital for monitoring, a statement from the Palace said.
The Queen abdicated in January in favour of her son King Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Queen Mary.
Margrethe, a third cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth, was scheduled to appear at an event at Aarhus University on Friday but has now pulled out.
The Queen, who is beloved by Danes, is known for her chain-smoking and love of dachshunds and was last seen in public earlier this week at the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum.
Despite resigning in her New Year’s Eve speech last year, the monarch remains active and performs royal duties alongside her son.
Fredensborg Castle, on the Dutch island of Zealand, is the royal family’s country home where they spend the northern hemisphere summer.
Queen Margrethe shocked Denmark after she announced she was abdicating during her annual New Year’s Eve TV speech.
Just two weeks later, Margrethe, who ruled for 52 years, signed away the throne at a Council of State meeting and her son, Frederik, was crowned King of Denmark and the Tasmanian-born Mary was crowned Queen.
She said one of the reasons why she chose to give up the throne was because of her health issues, adding that she underwent surgery for her back in February 2023.
“It went well, thanks to the skilled healthcare staff who took care of me. Of course, the operation also gave rise to thinking about the future – whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation,” she said.
She is still known as Her Majesty Queen Margrethe and can fill in as regent if King Frederik, Queen Mary and Crown Prince Christian are out of the country, sick or on holiday.
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