Queen Margrethe of Denmark Is Stepping Down, Allegedly to Save Her Son's Marriage

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is over, should Peter Morgan start chronicling the dramas of the Danish royal family? Det Krone? Because Denmark's long-reigning Queen Margrethe just made a historic announcement, and rumor has it, there's a scandalous reason why.On December 31, 2023, Queen Margrethe II made her annual New Year's Eve address to the nation (if you're just learning that Denmark even has a royal family…welcome to the convo!), and announced her decision to step down in two weeks' time.

In her statement, she chalked it up to the length of her reign (over half a century) and her recent back surgery. After all, the woman is 83; it makes sense that she would want to relax a little and let the younger generation do the work instead. , she ended her remarks, “It is my hope that the new royal couple will be met with the same trust and affection that have been shared with me.”Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark in 2018.However reasonable the Queen's speech made her seem, the fact is this is the first Danish abdication in over five hundred years.

And the press has a pretty good theory about the timing: she's doing it to save her son's marriage. In November 2023, there were rumors that the Crown Prince, Frederik, was having an affair with a Spanish socialite whose name is literally Genoveva Casanova.

The two were pictured together, but Casanova (Casanova!!!!) denied the affair. But still, suspicious, right?“It’s possible that the Queen took this action because she would have been terrified of the marriage breaking up and the royal family losing .