King Frederik X Takes Denmark's Crown Following Shock Abdication

King Frederik X Takes Denmark's Crown Following Shock Abdication

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Thousands gathered on the streets of Copenhagen Sunday for a once-in-a-thousand-year event: the voluntary abdication of its queen. In an afternoon ceremony at Denmark's Christiansborg Palace, Queen Margrethe II officially signed a declaration that voluntarily ended her 52-year reign—the longest of…

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