{"id":340041,"date":"2026-09-07T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340041\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:17:04","slug":"queen-margrethe-ii-of-denmark-86-is-hospitalised-and-will-miss-king-harald-v-of-norways-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340041\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 86, is hospitalised and will miss King Harald V of Norway’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Margrethe II spent her childhood in Copenhagen, living<\/a> in apartments at Frederick VIII\u2019s Palace at Amalienborg, and was educated at a private school in the city<\/a>, even spending a year abroad at North Foreland Lodge in Hampshire<\/a> in the UK. Clearly an enthusiastic scholar, she went on to study prehistoric archaeology at Cambridge<\/a> University<\/a>, as well as political science at Aarhus University. She even found time to study at the Sorbonne and London<\/a> School of Economics. Unsurprisingly, she is fluent in five languages, including Danish, English, French, Swedish and German.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, she became something of a jet-setting princess, visiting Los Angeles<\/a>, and specifically Paramount Studios, with her royal cousins Princess Astrid of Norway and Princess Margaretha of Sweden. While there, she met a handful of celebrities, including Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.<\/p>\n

Margrethe shared key similarities with the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>. The Danish queen became Europe\u2019s longest-serving head of state and the world\u2019s longest-serving female monarch on the death of Her Majesty (her Golden Jubilee was in 2022). And, like the Queen<\/a>, she enjoyed a long marriage. Queen Margrethe was married for over 50 years to the French diplomat, Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. The couple first met in London at an official dinner at the French Embassy, keeping their relationship secret from the media until their engagement. Henri proposed with a romantic \u2018moi et toi\u2019 style<\/a> ring, featuring two large square-cut diamonds, one to represent each of them.<\/p>\n

The couple were wed on 10 June 1967, with the bride wearing a gown by Jorgen Bender, featuring lace from her grandmother, Princess Margaret<\/a> of Connaught, and the Khedive of Egypt<\/a> tiara<\/a>. The ceremony lasted just 20 minutes at the bride\u2019s request, wanting to be no different from \u2018normal\u2019 couples, and the groom learned his vows in Danish. The couple had two children together, Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim. Prince Henrik served as Margrethe\u2019s royal consort from her accession in 1972 until his death in 2018. He was vocal in his displeasure that he was never given the title of King of Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Margrethe II spent her childhood in Copenhagen, living in apartments at Frederick VIII\u2019s Palace at Amalienborg, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[95934,71024,9,24,127658,63,127657,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-340041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-danish-royal-family","tag-king-harald","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norwegian-royal-family","tag-nyc","tag-queen-margrethe-ii-of-denmark","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}