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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe tests positive for Covid-19

Queen Margrethe of Denmark tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday evening, the Danish royal palace has confirmed.

Published: 9 February 2022 11:59 CET

Denmark's Queen Margrethe during a 2021 state visit to Germany.

Denmark's Queen Margrethe during a 2021 state visit to Germany. The Danish queen tested positive for Covid-19 on February 8th 2022. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

The palace confirmed the Queen’s positive test in a press statement on Wednesday.

The Queen has mild symptoms, the palace said in the statement. She has cancelled a planned winter holiday in Norway.

Queen Margrethe, who is 81, has received three doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. She was first vaccinated on January 1st 2021 and told media in November that she had received the booster or third dose.

She is currently at the royal residence Amalienborg in Copenhagen.

The Queen is not the first member of the Danish royal family to test positive for Covid-19, with Crown Princess Mary and Prince Christian, the Queen’s grandson, having previously had bouts with the virus.

Queen Margrethe recently marked her 50th jubilee as Denmark’s monarch.

READ ALSO: How does Queen Margrethe’s long reign compare to other monarchs?

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Queen Margrethe wins Denmark's best costume 'Oscar'

The royal was honoured with a Robert Award for her work on the Netflix film “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction”, an adaptation of a book by Danish author Karen Blixen, best known for her memoir “Out of Africa”, and directed by Bille August, one of the Scandinavian country’s most acclaimed filmmakers.

The ex-monarch, who cited health issues when she announced her shock abdication in her annual New Year’s Eve address, was not present at Saturday’s award ceremony in Copenhagen.

READ ALSO: IN PICTURES: Huge crowds cheer in Copenhagen as Frederik X takes throne

The film’s producer, Marcella Dichmann, accepted the prize on her behalf.

Alongside her royal duties, the queen has made a name for herself as an accomplished artist over the years.

She is a painter and illustrator, and has worked as a costume and set designer with the Royal Danish Ballet and Royal Danish Theatre on numerous occasions.

The queen also designed the sets for “Ehrengard” and was nominated for a Robert prize in that category as well.

READ ALSO: ‘Insanely popular’: Why are the Danish royals so important to Danes?

Hugely popular in Denmark, Margrethe studied at Cambridge in England and the Sorbonne in Paris, and is fluent in English, French, German and Swedish.

She has also translated plays, including Simone de Beauvoir’s “All Men Are Mortal” with her French-born husband, the late Prince Consort Henrik, under a pseudonym.

She has illustrated several books, including a Danish 2002 edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”, and her paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Denmark and abroad.

READ ALSO: Denmark to get own version of ‘The Crown’ about Queen Margrethe

Margrethe underwent major back surgery last year, and passed the throne to her son on January 14 after a 52-year reign, making him King Frederik X.

She has retained her title of queen following her abdication.

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