The Danish sovereign will be 80 years old on 16 April 2020. Denmark Post marks this special day with a stylish minisheet that contains five stamps. HM Queen Margrethe II has collaborated with the Postal Service to select four images that depict key events: from her childhood to her first state visit abroad as newly appointed monarch. The large portrait is new and has been specially photographed for this philatelic release.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark was born on April 16, 1940, at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the eldest daughter of the three daughters of King Frederik IX of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden. Nowadays this outstanding personality has the reputation of being Europe's most intellectual monarch a reflection, perhaps, of the fact that the Danish queen graduated from more than five universities, including Cambridge. She is also the first reigning queen in a country which has been headed by the same family for 49 generations.
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