And wouldn't you know, yet another interview with QMII - this time turned into a book. It's about QMII and the Royal Theater, where QMII is a frequent guest.
https://www.bt.dk/royale/dronning-margrethe-i-ny-bog-jeg-er-saa-gammel-og-senil
One of the advantages of being a member of the DRF, and especially the Monarch, is that she can take advantage of the royal box whenever she feels like it - and that's often!
She often watch a performance several times, in order to get all the details.
She's not bothered by sitting up there in the royal box:
"I certainly consider myself as being a part of the audience, a hundred percent actually, why, what else? I have always been sitting up there in the swallowsnest, so for me it's perfectly normal, that's how it is. There is the whole venue, which you sense very clearly. I have never felt that I was isolated up there in any way. And I have always stuck to... well, when you have that seat, you have that seat. So you don't go out and take a seat from someone else."
It is very clear, when QMII enjoys a performance: She chew on her tongue.
"My mother claimed that my sisters and I also did it. So there she sat ans looked at the four of us in a row chewing. I still do it, when the music gets really nice, then I can't help sitting chewing on the tongue."
The author Nina Parly based this book on ten interviews with a very enthusiastic QMII over a period of four years.
At some point QMII got up and demonstrated how to walk in a long gown on stage.
"You have to move in a certain way." QMII walked around like she was having a train behind her.
The secret is to not take too long steps.
"I can do that by accident sometimes, because I belong to those who walk with long strides, but if you walk in a big dress, then you can't waddle!"
Another secret is to move the hips, so get a good pull on the dress and train.
"I'm so old and senile that I think it's great when there are costumes on stage. And especially in the plays that are full of gesticulations in language and in the plot and things like that. You can't do that sort of things in jeans, right?"
Sometimes she gets a little annoyed at the audience getting up all the time.
"Well, I think it's turned inflation. It's annoying. It should be that - now! Now we simply can't sit down anymore, now we get up! But just getting up, because you clap. that I don't think you should."
It is old tradition that the audience stand up when QMII enters the royal box though and that she doesn't mind:
"It's actually festive, that it is."