Margrethe II was adorned with two pins dear to his heart for his golden jubilee
Pour la journée de ses 50 ans de règne, la reine Margrethe II de Danemark n’avait pas choisi ses deux broches au hasard. Loin de là.
One in horse riding.The other in the shape of a big daisy.Such was the two pins which was adorned by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on Friday January 14, 2022, day when she celebrated the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne.Pieces dear to her heart, as she revealed herself in the catalog of the exhibition of some 200 jewelry of her cassette currently presented at the Amalienborg Museum, as part of her golden jubilee.
The horseshoe brooch is a gift from his father, King Frederik IX.The latter gave him on June 5, 1953 to the Château de Fredensborg, after he signed the new Constitution in which the Salic Law was abandoned for the benefit of "preferably male primogeniture".Which meant that, from then on, women could in Denmark inherit the crown, but only if they did not have brothers.Which was therefore the case of her eldest daughter, Princess Margrethe.
Margrethe II wore her the day she succeeded her father
Sharing a photo of this jewel on Instagram (see at the bottom of the article), the Danish court reports that the sovereign explains in this book that, that day, she and her young sisters, the princesses Benedikte and Anne-Marie,had put on red and white checkered dresses, the colors of Denmark."And then I had this dad spindle," she said.
A precious lucky rack in ruby and diamonds-Symbolizing the red and white of the kingdom-that she did not fail to display, a little less than 20 years later, on January 15, 1972, on her black dress of mourning, when she was proclaimed Queen of Denmark from the balcony of the palace of Christiansborg in Copenhagen by the Prime Minister of the time in these terms: "King Frédéric IX is dead, long live his majesty the Queen Margrethe II".
As for the “Marguerite” spindle, it was offered to it in 2000, for its 60th anniversary, by her mother, Queen Ingrid.This jewel was a wedding gift that the latter had received in 1935 from his father, the crown prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (future king Gustaf VI Adolf).She had been carried out with diamonds who had belonged to Princess Margaret de Connaught, her mother, who died when Ingrid was only ten years old.Queen Margrethe II said that her mother had wore this spindle for the last time when she was 90 years old and she thinks she preferred to give her herself, once elderly, rather than leaving herheritage after his death."I was very, very touched by that," said Margrethe II.
A revoir en photos: La belle photo officielle de la famille royale danoise pour le Jubilé d’or de Margrethe II
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