Watching Queen Elizabeth II take reign of a country at such a young age inspired Queen Margrethe II and prepared her for her future role. “The fact that she was dedicating her life. I understood what that meant,” she told ITV News. “This is for life. That is the whole point of my life. And I know she sees that too.” Her parents, King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid (via Tatler), noticed that too. They told their daughter to pay close attention to what the British monarch was doing so she could “see that it could be done and it was worthwhile and you could live a very full life with it, even with a heavy schedule and a demanding job,” she explained.
While the two monarchs don’t regularly visit one another, when they do meet up they get along very well. “She always invites me for lunch when I am in London, when we talk about the family, how things are going in this country and that country, and what the children are up to,” Queen Margrethe revealed.
