Abdication of Margrethe II

Margrethe II announced her abdication (effective 14 January 2024) as Queen of Denmark during her New Year's Eve address to the nation on 31 December 2023. She was succeeded by her elder son, King Frederik X, on 14 January 2024.^[1][2] Margrethe's abdication was the first voluntary abdication of a Danish monarch since that of King Eric III in 1146.^[3]