Danish queen's jubilee scaled back after Queen Elizabeth's death
— and the only remaining queen in Europe — had to scale back her own jubilee this weekend due to the elder monarch’s death.
A Copenhagen carriage ride Saturday was called off, and a Sunday lunch with members of other Scandinavian countries was expected to have a solemn, not celebratory tone, according to the British paper. They reportedly called each other by their nicknames “Lilibet” and “Daisy” and Elizabeth invited Margrethe to lunch every time she was in London.“Your mother was very important to me and my family,” Margrethe reportedly wrote to King Charles III. “She was a towering figure among the European monarchs and a great inspiration to us all. We shall miss her terribly.”
have come from leaders all across Europe, as media coverage of the high profile and widely admired queen’s death dominated the entire continent, overshadowing politics and even war, the article said.Relations between leaders in the UK and its historic rival France had been adversarial of late, strained by Brexit and migrant crossings. However, the sense of grief was palatable across the channel, where the “petite princesse anglaise” made her first“To you, she was your Queen.
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