EUROPE’S ONLY QUEEN
Oct 07, 2022
4 minutes
COMPILED BY LINDSAY DE FREITAS
THERE were only two people who understood what it was like to deal with the pressures of being a ruling queen on the European continent. And when one of them recently died at the ripe old age of 96, the other was left devastated.
Queen Margrethe of Denmark was clearly shattered at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. She hadn’t only lost her cousin when she died at Balmoral Castle – she’d also lost a pillar of support.
It’s a huge loss to the woman who’s now Europe’s only reigning queen. The two were third cousins and were quite close. Margrethe and Elizabeth, great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria, often
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