Denmark’s Queen Margrethe scales down jubilee celebrations after Elizabeth II’s death

Queen Margrethe of Denmark has scaled down celebrations to mark her 50 years on Europe’s oldest throne following the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, the Danish royal palace introduced on Friday.

Queen Margrethe, 82, lauded Britain’s late queen as “a towering determine amongst European monarchs and an important inspiration to us all”, and acknowledged that “we will miss her terribly.”

Flags on the Danish royal palace in Copenhagen had been lowered at half-staff on Friday.

Palace press spokeswoman Lene Balleby stated the modifications to the celebrations programme had been made on “the want of the (Danish) queen.”

Two occasions scheduled for Saturday — an look by Margrethe on the Amalienborg Palace balcony to greet throngs of well-wishers in addition to a journey by means of the capital in a horse-drawn carriage — have been cancelled.

A lunch at Copenhagen Metropolis Corridor has been postponed, whereas occasions together with a efficiency on the Royal Theatre’s Previous Stage, a non secular service and a Sunday night banquet might be curtailed.

Margrethe is now Europe’s longest-ruling monarch. The Danish royal was proclaimed queen on 15 January 1972, a day after her father, King Frederik IX, died following a brief sickness.