The Laws of Succession in...Denmark
1st October 2022
Queen Margrethe of Denmark has been celebrating her Golden Jubilee throughout the year, but it’s only thanks to the updated laws of succession that she was able to inherit from her father.
In 1953, King Frederick IX was comfortably on the Danish throne but the succession was anything but sorted. The king’s children were three young girls: Princess Margarethe, born in 1940, Princess…