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The cousin of Queen Elizabeth II — and the only remaining queen in Europe — had to scale back her own jubilee this weekend due to the elder monarch’s death.
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, 82, was set to pull out all the stops to mark her 50-year reign but was forced to cancel much of her Golden Jubilee, which had already been postponed due to COVID-19, according to The Sunday Times.
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.
Margrethe is now Europe’s longest-serving monarch. The chain-smoking queen was a third cousin to Elizabeth, and the two were close, the article said.
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.
