Margrethe is the Danish form of Margaret — from the Greek margarites (pearl). **Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940)** — **reigned as Queen Regnant of Denmark from January 14, 1972 to January 14, 2024 — fifty-two years to the day, making her the longest-reigning Danish monarch and the longest-reigning female head of state at the time of her abdication**. **Abdicated in favor of her son King Frederik X on January 14, 2024 — the first Danish monarch in 900 years to abdicate voluntarily (without political pressure)**. **Cambridge, Aarhus, the Sorbonne, and LSE-educated; a working artist whose stage and costume designs for the Royal Danish Ballet and her stamp illustrations have been internationally exhibited**. **Designed costumes for two films of *The Snow Queen* (Hans Christian Andersen)**. **Queen Margrethe I (1353-1412)** — medieval ruler who united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the Kalmar Union (1397).
Subject of countless Scandinavian royal histories.
Margrethe reduces to eight — the number of 52-year reign.