It’s official, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark will abdicate on January 14, thus handing over to his eldest son, Prince Frederik. An announcement made shortly before the start of the new year and which caused surprise in the country, before quickly becoming the subject of shortcuts to recent rumors of infidelity targeting the heir of the Crown. As a reminder, Mary Donaldson’s husband has, since November, been targeted by a revelation from the Spanish media Readingswho assured, with supporting photo, that he would have an extramarital relationship with a certain Genoveva Casanova.
A rumor denied by this woman, but which also caused the Danish Royal House to react. And since the announcement of the upcoming end of the queen’s reign, some believe the two pieces of information are related. Enough to make a journalist specializing in royalty, Wim Dehandschutter by name, jump on X (formerly Twitter) on December 31. “I have read comments that Queen Margrethe of Denmark has decided to abdicate after 52 years in reaction to recent rumors concerning an affair between his son and next king Frederik”, he begins in his post, before saying, firmly: “Do we really believe that only six weeks ago she made this drastic decision and thus rewarded a possibly faithful man?”
🇩🇰 I read comments that Danish Queen Margrethe has decided to abdicate after 52 years as a reaction to recent rumors of an affair by her son and next King Frederik. Do we really believe that only 6 weeks ago she took this drastic decision and thus rewards a possibly faithful man? pic.twitter.com/MJpdB87gsk
— [Wim Dehandschutter] (@WDehandschutter) December 31, 2023
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A story similar to that of the former king of the Belgians?
In the comments, one netizen opined that this might indeed not be “the main reason” but that maybe it has “was a triggering factor” for Margrethe II. Our colleague quickly responded by recalling that “When King Albert II abdicated in Belgium in 2013, some journalists also said: he made this decision because Delphine (then still Boël) took legal action in order to obtain DNA evidence proving that she was his daughter. “I didn’t believe it at the time either,” he said to silence the bad tongues.
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