Queen Margarethe ‘very quick’ to make decision to abdicate

Royal commentator Angela Mollard says outgoing Queen Margarethe was “very quick” in her decision to abdicate, giving Crown Prince Frederik only a few days’ notice. A Danish newspaper has reported that Crown Prince Frederik found out about his mother’s abdication on December 28, just three days before she announced it in her New Year’s Eve speech. “It was only three days’ notice that he apparently got, but I can actually believe this because the Queen, of course, when she stripped the younger brother of the title, she only gave five days’ notice, which wasn’t much at all,” Ms Mollard told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “She’s very quick to make a decision. “It sheds light on the fact that, of course, when Frederik and Mary were here in December, they can’t have known that they were going to be stepping forward into this role.”