Posted on 04/16/2020 2:51:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Queen Margrethe of Denmark turns 80 today, and to commemorate the occasion she gave an interview that appeared in the newspaper Politiken on Saturday. The conversation was wide-ranging, but the part that made headlines throughout Scandinavia was her admission that while she considers climate change an important issue, she’s not personally panicked about it, and that while she’s aware that climate does change – “it has changed and is changing all the time” – she’s not certain whether humans directly influence those changes. Let it be emphasized here that this is one queen who actually knows something about these matters: she studied prehistoric archeology at Cambridge and hence has an extremely long-term perspective.
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Butter cookies all around, and the queen is picking up the tab ...
Comes by it naturally - her old man Frederick IX was a salt-of-the-earth kinda guy as well.
At least it seems she has a ‘gabby’ so realizes, “Oh look. The weather has changed!”
ebelskivers and akavit! I’ll buy the first round!!
The best sovereigns are the ones you never hear about.
Also illustrated the Danish edition of The Lord of the Rings.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Margrethe_II_of_Denmark
I sent the Queen a til lykke (Danish for congratulations) through the embassy today. We could use more like her.
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