Copenhagen’s streets were filled to the brim with excited crowds as Denmark today welcomed the former Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary as its new King and Queen.
But the story was starkly different 52 years ago to the day, when Margrethe II became Queen on January 14, 1972.
Archive photos show the young princess, then 31, stood at the balcony at Christiansborg Palace – just like her son did today – as the then-Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag