Thousands on streets of Danish capital to see monarch hand over to eldest son
Queen Margrethe II has signed her declaration of abdication, ending her 52-year reign as Denmark’s longest-serving monarch and ushering in her eldest son Frederik as king and head of state.
Thousands of people gathered on the streets of Copenhagen to bid farewell to Margrethe, who has become the first Danish monarch in nearly 900 years to abdicate voluntarily.
