Margaret ii of denmark smoking
•
Margrethe II of Denmark, the 'Ashtray Queen': from her first cigarette at 17 to quitting completely at 83
Regardless of her royal status, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark always marched to the beat of her own drum. During her 52 years on the throne, she proved to be an independent spirit who did not shy away from her vices and passions. As a queen, she never betrayed her image, primarily out of respect and devotion to her father, King Frederick IX of Denmark, whom she paid homage to by abdicating on the same day he did in 1972. But as a woman, far from the pomp, her public image remains akin to that of any commoner.
One of her preferred vices was smoking. When she was just 17 years old, she lit her first cigarette and, until undergoing back surgery in February 2023, she never stopped. Unapologetic about it in public, Margrethe II wrote in a 1990 memoir, "My father and mother had smoked throughout my childhood, and one day they asked if I wanted a cigarette." Her first drag dates
•
Margrethe II: Who is the chain-smoking, fashion-forward Queen of Denmark?
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, 82, has announced she will abdicate in January after 52 years on the throne. She revealed the news unexpectedly in her traditional New Year’s speech.
Following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Margrethe founds herself the world’s only queen regnant, Europe’s longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning monarch on the international stage – bar the Sultan of Brunei.
Although many other royal families have their own queens, these are the wives of kings and have married into their titles, rather than inherited the responsibility to rule as monarch, as Queen Margrethe did.
She attended Her Majesty’s grand funeral alongside her son, Crown Prince Frederik and was seen to shed a tear at the spectacle of the coffin draped in the royal standard as it lay in Westminster Abbey.
Margrethe is a third cousin of Elizabeth as both women were great-granddaught
•
Inside the life of Denmark's 'Ashtray Queen' Margrethe II and the husband who would never become her king
Always a planner, the Queen of Denmark in 2003 commissioned an artist to construct an elaborate glass sarcophagus that she envisioned as the final resting place for herself and her husband.
Reflecting Margrethe's artistic sensibilities, the four-tonne tomb that rests upon silver elephants in Roskilde Cathedral took 20 years to complete.
But when the sarcophagus with room for two was almost finished, Prince Henrik announced his wife would be spending eternity alone.
"If she wants to bury me with her, she must make me a king consort," he told Danish magazine Se og Hør in 2017.
"Finished. I do not care."
The schism between the queen and her French-born consort was decades in the making.
Despite falling "madly in love" when they met in London in 1965, having two sons together, and representing the hopes and dreams of Danes