Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II signed her historic abdication on Sunday, paving the best way for her son Frederik X to right away turn out to be king, Danish broadcaster DR reported.
Margrethe, 83, is the primary Danish monarch to voluntarily relinquish the throne in almost 900 years since King Erik III Lam stepped right down to enter a monastery in 1146.
She signed her abdication throughout a gathering with the Danish Cabinet on the Christiansborg Palace, an unlimited complicated in Copenhagen that homes the Royal Reception Rooms and Royal Stables in addition to the Danish Parliament, the prime minister’s workplace and the Supreme Court. The doc was offered to her as she sat at an enormous desk lined in crimson material round which royals and members of the Danish authorities had been seated.
Frederik, 55, was current within the room. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will subsequent proclaim him king on the balcony of the palace in entrance of hundreds of individuals.
Frederik’s 18-year-old son, Christian, who grew to become Denmark’s crown prince and inheritor to the throne, was additionally in attendance.