Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A contemporary account of the abdication crisis by Whitehall official Sir Horace Wilson sheds new light on the events of 1936 As ...

“We are serene and both happy with this change of life,” he told Paris Match earlier this year. “Even though it’s a very privileged life, it’s also a kind of golden cage.” Pictured: Grand Duke Henri ...

Denmark’s King Frederik X has ascended the throne, becoming king on Sunday and succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who formally abdicated after 52 years as monarch. Thousands turned out in the ...

When the 85-year-old Japanese Emperor Akihito steps down on April 30, it will be the latest in a string of historic abdications that have included the pope and several monarchs. As medical technology ...

Historian Mie Ellekilde said the reign change would be a "huge upheaval" in Frederik's life whenever the day came MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Did Queen Margrethe of Denmark give ...

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II watches a military ceremony to mark her official birthday at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, in June 2021. (Chris Jackson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Queen Elizabeth ...

It appears as though Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s abdication news came as a surprise not only to the world but to her sons, Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim, too. According to Danish newspaper ...

Succeeded by: Her son, Prince Frederik, who will become King Frederik X Queen Margrethe announced her plans to abdicate in her New Year's Eve address, saying, "I have decided that now is the right ...