{"id":7144,"date":"2022-09-12T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2022-09-12T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T00:52:14","slug":"worlds-only-female-monarch-alive-marks-50-years-on-the-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/12\/news\/7144\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s only female monarch alive marks 50 years on the throne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7145\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/monarch-1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denmark&#8217;s Queen Margrethe II arrives for the command performance at the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen on Sept. 10, 2022, to mark the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne. (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COPENHAGEN, Broadcasting News Corporation : Scaled-down celebrations took place Sunday in Denmark marking 50 years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, whose reign is now Europe\u2019s longest following the death of Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth II. Dampened celebrations were ordered Friday by the 82-year-old Margrethe \u2014 now also the only female monarch in the world \u2014 in respect for Britain\u2019s late queen, who died Thursday at 96.<br \/>\nMargrethe asked her court to adjust Saturday\u2019s and Sunday\u2019s anniversary program at a short notice, cancelling \u2014 among other things \u2014 her appearance on the Amalienborg Palace balcony to greet throngs of well-wishers as well as a ride through the Danish capital of Copenhagen in a horse-drawn carriage. Sunday\u2019s events included a church service and a lunch hosted by Margrethe on board the Danish royal ship Dannebrog for the royal couples and presidents from the fellow Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. A music and theater gala honoring the Danish monarch took place on Saturday evening and a gala dinner at Christiansborg Palace \u2014 the seat of the Danish Parliament \u2014 was taking place late Sunday. Margrethe was proclaimed queen on Jan. 15, 1972, a day after her father King Frederik IX, died following a short illness. The 50th anniversary jubilee for the Danish queen was initially scheduled for January but most events were canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN, Broadcasting News Corporation : Scaled-down celebrations took place Sunday in Denmark marking 50 years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, whose reign is now Europe\u2019s longest following the death of Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth II. Dampened celebrations were ordered Friday by the 82-year-old Margrethe \u2014 now also the only female monarch in the world \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}