The story of the queen who will visit Macri and will visit the hometown of the president – 13/03/2019

For more than half a century (53 years) Margaret II, the Queen of Denmark, has been to Argentina for the first time. as Crown Princess of the Throne, at the time in power, his father, Federico IX. He was in Necochea, Tres Arroyos and Tandil, the so-called "Danish triangle"where is the largest number of immigrants from this community.

Six years later, on the death of the King, on January 14, 1972, Margrethe Alexandrine Porhildur Ingrid badumed the crown and he did not release her anymore. At 79 (he will meet on April 16), he will arrive in Buenos Aires this Sunday with a commercial flight. in tune with clbadic Danish austerity, accompanied by the eldest of his two sons, Federico, who will succeed him on the throne.

It will be three days of state visit (Monday to Wednesday), which includes a meeting with President Mauricio Macri at Casa Rosada, where they will share a lunch this Monday. Margarita, who enjoys great popularity in her country (according to a survey, about 80% positive image), will also visit the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Teatro Colón (she is fascinated by the tango ), will participate in a dinner. Gala at the Alvear Hotel and make a trip to Tandil, a chance city of the Argentine President, among other activities.

As well 31 entrepreneurs will come with investments in the country, according to three axes: sustainable development, health and agro-industry. These companies include Vestas, Danfoss, Christian Hansen, Food Nation, Novo Nordisk, Novozymes and State of Green.

The official delegation also includes Ministers Anders Samuelsen (Foreign Affairs) and Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (Environment and Food).

This year, there are presidential elections in Denmark and the date has not yet been set, as it is usual to announce only three weeks before the elections. The monarchy is constitutional and already filled over a thousand years ago, with the Viking ancestors.

Margarita II is the head of state, but the one who governs is the prime ministerwho regularly informs him of the progress of the management, like the Chancellor. Since 2015, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, of the liberal party Venstre, is in power and is in fact a center-right coalition.

The Queen has two palaces of residence, depending on the time of year: Fredensborg (30 km north of Copenhagen) and Amalienborg (center, where thousands of tourists watch the changing of the guard of the soldiers every day).

In the first was this sent from Clarin last month to interview the queen, who does not give public opinion on local or international political issues. "I can not wait to return to ArgentinaShe is one of five languages ​​that speaks fluently, in addition to Danish and French (the birthplace of her husband, who died last year). , Swedish (where her mother was born) and German.

"It's very interesting to see how another country has developed, it's been two generations since I was there," he added in the midst of the barking of his four-year-old sausage dog. "Tilia", the inheritance of her husband, and smoking in public, this vice that could never leave and one of the things the Danes came to blame him for.

According to the Ambbadador of Denmark in Buenos Aires, Soren Vohtz, Margarita will travel to Tandil Tuesday to make an offering at the monument in honor of Juan Fugl, one of the pioneers of immigration Danish, who innovated in the wheat plantation and installed the first flour mill in the region. That same day, Federico will lead a parallel activity: he will be in Bahía Blanca to inaugurate a wind farm, with the factories of the company Vesta.

Federico (50), sports fan and finance expert, Is married to Australian lawyer Mary Donaldson, whom he met in a bar at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Despite the initial resistance of the queen, love has flourished and the marriage now has four children (Christian and Isabel, plus twins Vicente and Josefina).

The heir to the throne was already in Buenos Aires last year, at the Youth Olympic Games, where he accompanied the delegation of Danish athletes.

Joaquín (49), Margarita's second child, was married for a decade to Alexandra Christina Manley, a citizen of Hong Kong. They had two sons. He returned to marry in 2008 with the French Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier. They are the parents of a baby and a baby.

The real blood of absolute purity flows in the veins of Margarita. His mother was Ingrid, Princess of Sweden (daughter of King Gustav VI Adolphus) and Queen wife of Denmark, who died at the end of the year 2000. Her father, Frederick IX, ruled his monarchy under the slogan "With God for Denmark" . They were married on May 24, 1935 in Stockholm Cathedral.

Margarita's husband, who is the eldest of three sisters, was the French Earl Enrique de Laborde de Monpezat, a diplomat and soldier who died at the age of 83 on January 18, 2018.

From marriage with Margarita, in 1967, he must accept the role of second son. These restrictions led him to publicly complain about his wife, to the point that a section of the Danish press called him "The crying prince"The queen has solved the problem at the Danish: interior doors and farm.

In the recent interview with Clarinshe spoke publicly about him for the first time. "I went to Argentina while I was still not married to him, and I realize now that I was missing at that time," he said.

"We were together" only "58. It's nice to have spent that time, we had two children who had lots of children, I have eight grandchildren , my husband came from France, it is the French influence in my life, we travel to France many times We did it in the summer, we drank wine. My husband has a place of choice in my life; and of course, in my family, "he said.

EMJ