page_title: Margrethe II of Denmark
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Margrethe II of Denmark / Family
caption_attribution_description: Queen Margrethe II and her husband Prince Henrik of Denmark welcome President George W. Bush and his wife Bush at Fredensborg Palace, July 5 2005.
context_page_description: Margrethe II is the Queen of Denmark, the supreme authority of the Church of Denmark and the commander-in-chief of the Danish Defence. Born into the House of Glücksburg, a royal house with origins in northern Germany, she was the eldest child of Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden. She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953, when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne.
  Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death on 14 January 1972. On her accession, she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margrethe I, ruler of the Scandinavian kingdoms in 1375–1412 during the Kalmar Union. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons: Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim.
context_section_description: The Queen has two children and eight grandchildren, all born at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen:
  Crown Prince Frederik (born 26 May 1968). He was married to Mary Donaldson on 14 May 2004 at Copenhagen Cathedral, Copenhagen. The couple have four children:
  Prince Christian (born 15 October 2005)
  Princess Isabella (born 21 April 2007)
  Prince Vincent (born 8 January 2011)
  Princess Josephine (born 8 January 2011)
  Prince Joachim (born 7 June 1969). He was married to Alexandra Manley on 18 November 1995 at Frederiksborg Palace Church, Hillerød. They divorced on 8 April 2005. He was married secondly to Marie Cavallier on 24 May 2008 at Møgeltønder Church, Møgeltønder. Joachim has four children, three sons and one daughter:
  Prince Nikolai (born 28 August 1999)
  Prince Felix (born 22 July 2002)
  Prince Henrik (born 4 May 2009)
  Princess Athena (born 24 January 2012)
  In 2008, the Queen announced that her male-line descendants would bear the additional title of Count or Countess of Monpezat, in recognition of her husband's ancestry.
caption: Queen Margrethe II and her husband the Prince Consort welcome President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush at Fredensborg Palace, 5 July 2005.
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