https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/europe/queen-margrethe-denmark-abdication-intl/index.html
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has announced she will abdicate her role on January 14, 2024 after a reign lasting more than five decades.
The discussion was initiated several hundreds years ago and is still going. Approximately 80% of the population are in favour of keeping the monarchy in its current form.
She's not in charge of that. Denmark has a parliament, and the Danish people do not want to abolish the monarchy. In fact, the Danish royals are very popular in Denmark and abroad.
They serve as good will ambassadors and bring in more tourist money than they cost to keep running.
They also have lobbying and political power, at least in the UK.
Also, it's not the living monarchs that attract tourists. It's the buildings, the places, and the history. Just look at France and Versailles. You do know what they did to their monarchy, right? It's the place and the history, that people go for.
Because a lot of them think they are somehow superior to others because they know who their ancestors were for the last 30 generations.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a surprise move Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has announced she will abdicate her role early in 2024, after a reign lasting more than five decades.
Margrethe, 83, will hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik, she said in her traditional New Year’s Eve speech broadcast on Danish television.
Inevitably, the operation gave cause to thoughts about the future – whether now would be an appropriate time to pass on the responsibility to the next generation.
Queen Margrethe II took over the throne on 14 January 1972 following the death of King Frederik IX.
After the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II last year Margrethe became the longest-serving monarch in Europe.
After a meeting in the Council of State, the Prime Minister will proclaim the change of throne at Christiansborg Castle.
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I bet her diet is better than any of the users on Lemmy. I'd like to see you at 83 with all of your bran
As good a time as any to post this classic Peter serafinowicz clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDmSnD2pzc&t=43