Denmark’s ageing queen to resume most duties next month

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, is expected to resume most of her official duties on her 83rd birthday next month, the palace said (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AP)

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, is expected to resume most of her official duties on her 83rd birthday next month, the palace said.

Margrethe underwent back surgery on February 22 and her “physical rehabilitation is going well but there will continue to be a number of major tasks that (she) cannot carry out as planned in the coming months,” the palace said.