The news of the abdication of Queen Margaret II of Denmark came in the middle of the New Year’s Eve celebration, on December 31. The 83-year-old monarch will hand over the throne on January 14 to her son Frederick, after 52 years of reign, and just two months after a high-profile controversy broke out that personally involves the heir.
It was at the beginning of November when the magazine Lecturas published some images of the still Danish prince with Genoveva Casanova, walking together through the streets of Madrid and increasing rumors about a possible relationship, despite the fact that Federico has been married to the Australian Mary Donaldson since 2004.
The tensions in the royal family of Denmark due to this controversy could have played a determining role in Margarita’s decision, according to sources based in the same country. Adding to this theory is Luis Pliego, director of Lecturas, who revealed exclusive information this Tuesday on Telecinco’s TardeAR.
“If I have anything left over today, it is sources in Denmark, very well-informed sources from colleagues who enter the Palace and are aware of what Queen Margaret did not say in her speech,” he began by explaining, and then revealed that ” In fact, abdication is something that Mary Donaldson herself asks for in order not to divorce Federico.”
“Either we are kings now, or this is over,” were the words of the heiress consort to Frederick of Denmark, according to Pliego on the Telecinco program. In this way, Donaldson’s plans would have been to return to Australia in case he did not access the throne immediately.
The director of the gossip magazine thus confirms that the prince’s controversy with Genoveva Casanova would have dynamited the relationship in the Danish royal family, and that this would be the reason why Frederick and Mary will become the new kings of Denmark on the 14th from January.
