The Queen's 70th Birthday.

Today Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II celebrates her birthday. She was born in Amalienborg Palace as the daughter of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid. In 1953, The Act of Succession gave women the right of succession to the Danish throne, but only secondarily. In 1972, Queen Margrethe II became the first Danish Sovereign under the new Act of Succession.



I took part in the tradition of going to the Queen’s castle at noon on her birthday and waiting for her to come out onto her balcony with the rest of the royal family to wave to the crowd. Then, she gets into a horse-drawn carriage with her husband and, in a parade, processes through the city. In the square nearest to my school, 18 karat gold apples are placed in the top tier of the fountain in honor of the Queen.