“Gradually he [King Frederik] showed me everybody was going to help me in this…it was not a terrifying thing, but a great challenge.”

— Margrethe II of Denmark

Television documentary 'Queen Margrethe of Denmark', BBC & Jørgen Bonfils, 01:20, 28 April 1974.
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