Denmark’s royal family: a ‘Game of Thrones’ drama

Queen Margrethe II’s attempt to streamline the Danish monarchy brought rumoured tensions to the surface

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Queen Margrethe II has stripped four of her grandchildren of their royal titles
(Image credit: Hannes Magerstaedt / Getty Images)

Royal-watching in Denmark can be rather a dull pastime, said Kim Bach in Ekstra Bladet: we don’t do pageantry like the British; we don’t get the kind of juicy scandals that can plague other monarchies.

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