“The fact that I am a woman has never really played into what I have done or not done. I have just been lucky that things have played out so that I could do things.”

On being a female monarch, interview with Bo Lidegaard, 'Politiken' Partially available online http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE1495013/dronningen-opgaven-som-regent-har-man-for-livet/ (01 January 2012).
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