As you can expect there is a lot about QMII these days and the two main channels in DK are going together about airing a show in tribute to QMII Friday evening. Well, I won't be watching that. I suspect it (as usual) will be toe-curlingly over the top.
But BT has compiled a list of 83 trivia about QMII and I'm going to write about some of them:
https://www.bt.dk/royale/heste-fobi-og-trump-afvisning-83-ting-du-ikke-vidste-om-dronning-margrethe
#1 - She was 12 before she saw a black person in real life.
#3 - QMII weighed 3.300 grams at birth.
#5 - She met Elvis Presley in 1960 and was not impressed! "I thought he was dreadful."
#13 - QMII and PH almost drowned during their honeymoon in Turkey in 1967, when an undercurrent took them. They had to swim for their lives. (Many make the mistake of swimming against the current, obviously they didn't.)
#16 - QMII's two first pets were two canaries, whom she named hr and fru = mr and mrs.
#17 - She learned to speak early and by age 2 she was - what do you call it? Proficient? Fluent? Accomplished? You get what I mean.
She loved difficult words and learned the names of all the flowers in her mother's flower-garden.
#19 - Frederik was delivered by C-section after nine hours of labor. Joachim wasn't.
#21 - In 1994 QMII underwent surgery for cancer in the womb and had her womb and ovaries removed.
#24 - QMII is (or perhaps was) 182 cm, Frederik is 183 cm and Joachim is 188 cm.
#33 - in 2023 there were 2.197 Danes named Margrethe and 263 named Daisy.
#37 - Before being asked out by PH, QMII had never been on a date before.
#43 - He favorite ballet is Napoli (Naples).
#45 - Her favorite bird is the raven.
#52 - She is very fond of the color blue. It started when she was little and got a blue toilet seat. (Presumably as a kind of advanced potty-training.)
#53 - In 1980 while QMII was flying on a military plane to the island of Bornholm and flew across Sweden, someone goofed and two Swedish fighters were scrambled to force her plane down. The misunderstanding was soon cleared and she flew on.
#54 - Her favorite cigarette brand is Karelia, which is very strong.
#59 - She rode until she was 14-15 years old, then all of a sudden it scared her and for no apparent reason. So she stopped.
#64 - She hates minigolf. "I actually couldn't think of anything worse."
#65&66 - She was very sensitive as a child and prone to crying at the drop of a hat. It wasn't until she was 12-13-14 years old he was able to watch a movie to the end with out crying her head off. The slightest drama scared her.
#67 - She has no TV in her living room at Fredensborg, if she want's to watch TV it's wheeled into the room.
#68 - No jungle safari with PH for her! She doesn't like creepy crawly things.
#69 - In 1991 when visiting president George Bush, she declined meeting a Donald Trump.
#70 - When she turned 18 she was presented with a parrot, which she named Nina Frederiksen. (Some of you may recall the duo Nina and Frederik.)
#71 - QMII has never said no comments to a journalist.
#74 - QMII never carry cash. Her LiW carry cash for the odd payment. (Paying in cash or even obtaining cash is a becoming a serious problem here in DK! I can't even remember the last time I had cash on me. It's at least a year.)
#75 - QMII is a great fan of a trio called the Nattergale, who made a 24 episode Christmas calendar that has become legendary. She and her close friend Susanne Heering can spend hours speaking Jutlish with each other = a mix of Jutlandic dialect and English. (See video at the end of this post.)
#79 - QMII still save the love-letters from PH that he wrote some 50 years ago.
#82 - QMII does not watch The Crown! "I've know the family so well that it would annoy me to no end seeing the saying things they would never say or speak in a way I don't think they would speak.
And for those who a curious about how Jutlish sounds and get an idea what QMII and Susanne Heering are up to when they goof around, here is a merry video.