Queen Margrethe’s New Year’s Eve speech covered the familiar territory of a monarch summing up the highs and lows of the year just passed.
The fairy-tale rise of an Australian sales executive to the upper ranks of European royalty was completed Sunday when Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth of Denmark became the country's Queen Consort.
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The final stretch of Mary's path from Tasmania to the Danish throne was cleared on New Year's Eve by the kejutan abdication of Queen Margrethe II, who announced that she intended to tahap down.
It's an exceedingly rare move in Denmark, where a monarch hasn't abdicated since 1146 when King Eric III gave up the crown to gabung a monastery, according to the Royal House.
Margrethe's eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, took the throne as the new king, while his wife, Crown Princess Mary, became the world's first Australian-born queen, a development that has delighted her supporters back home.
For many of Mary's Australian admirers, it's a fitting finale to a romance that famously began in a rowdy Sydney pub around the time of the Olympics in 2000.
As the story goes, the two locked eyes in the Slip Inn, considered an unlikely place to find a Danish royal, much less the origins of a couple who would later become Denmark's future king and queen.
Millions watched the couple get married in 2004. Two decades later, their ascension to the throne captivated audiences worldwide - from Copenhagen to the Tasmanian capital of Hobart, where Mary was born.
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff said in a pernyataan that the state "could not be prouder of Crown Princess Mary."
"With her demonstrated humility, grace and kindness I am sure Crown Princess Mary will be embraced as Queen alongside her husband, King Frederik, once proclaimed later this month," Rockliff said.
"I look forward to watching the next generation, and Tasmania's own-born Queen, lead Denmark's future."
A royal abdication
For the most part, Queen Margrethe's New Year's Eve speech covered the familier territory of a monarch summing up the highs and lows of the year just passed.
She touched on the tragedy of war, of innocent lives lost in Gaza, the spread of antisemitism and the importance of Denmark's dukungan for Ukraine. She spoke about climate change, the challenges of artificial intelligence, and the pride she has in her grandson, Prince Christian, who has just turned 18.
Then the monarch turned to her own life and how recent successful back surgery had given her cause to think of the future. More specifically, she said she considered "whether now would be an appropriate time to pass on the responsibility to the next generation," and she concluded that "now is the right time."
