H.M. Queen Margrethe of Denmark

Her mother was a daughter of the Swedish royal family, whose reigning king Folke Hubertus Carl XVI. Gustaf is therefore Margrethe's uncle. As a result of a constitutional change in 1953, with which Frederik IX. had also introduced female succession to the throne, Margrethe was officially sworn in as heir to the throne according to the Danish constitution when she came of age on April 16, 1958. After private school education, which also took Margrethe to England, she graduated from high school in 1960. She then completed a one-year law study abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris. This was followed by studying law, political science, economics and history in Copenhagen and Aarhus. Margrethe completed her studies with further stays abroad at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Margrethe was already being prepared for her future high office during her school and university years. While traveling at home and abroad, she got to know her own country and the world as wel