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For the first five years of her life, Margaret Christina and her family initially lived at the royal residence of {{wp|Stockholm Palace}}, which had been the princess's birthplace. At the same time, the royal family would also occasionally alternate between the various, and other royal residences in the United Kingdoms, namely {{wp|Amalienborg}} in {{wp|Denmark}}, and the {{wp|Oslo Palace}} in {{wp|Norway}}. As a direct consequence, a young Margaret Christina was quickly exposed as a whole to the differing cultures present within the union, which would become the general basis for her multilingual education focus. Nevertheless, at the age of five, she was enrolled instead at a {{wp|Swedish}} kindergarten in {{wp|Stockholm}}, where she generally went to until the age of seven. | |||
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Upon reaching the age of seven, the royal family subsequently moved to {{wp|Denmark}}, where after a brief interregnum following their arrival, Margaret Christina was enrolled next at a local primary school, namely the {{wp|International School of Hellerup}}, located in the {{wp|Hellerup}} district of the capital city of {{wp|Copenhagen}}. While there, as to not have the princess distinguished from her peers due to her royal status, Margaret Christina was officially enrolled at the school under her first two names, with the notable absence of her HRH title. Then, at the age of twelve, upon completing her primary school education, she was | Upon reaching the age of seven, the royal family subsequently moved to {{wp|Denmark}}, where after a brief interregnum following their arrival, Margaret Christina was enrolled next at a local primary school, namely the {{wp|International School of Hellerup}}, located in the {{wp|Hellerup}} district of the capital city of {{wp|Copenhagen}}. While there, as to not have the princess distinguished from her peers due to her royal status, Margaret Christina was officially enrolled at the school under her first two names, with the notable absence of her HRH title. Then, at the age of twelve, upon completing her primary school education, she was subsequently enrolled, this time at the {{wp|Bjerke Upper Secondary School}} in the {{wp|Norwegian}} capital city of {{wp|Oslo}}. However, the notable difference in the language of instruction used by the school proved somewhat initially difficult for Margaret Christina, causing the young princess to reportedly experience some setbacks in her academic studies, due to her initial inability to learn in a different language. As a result, the princess's initial hardships led her parents to temporarily withdraw her from the school to a more private form of education at home, where in addition to the general subjects she was tutored in by her respective tutors, she was also extensively taught in the {{wp|Norwegian}} language, as a means to properly facilitate Margaret Christina's return to her {{wp|Norwegian}} school. Eventually, after a three weeks long interruption in her public studies, and upon being deemed able to communicate in a basic manner in the {{wp|Norwegian}} language, Margaret Christina was finally allowed to return back to her {{wp|Bjerke Upper Secondary School|secondary school}}, where in stark contrast to her previous experience at the school, she was able to exhibit a generally modest performance in her studies, thanks to her newfound understanding of the local language itself. | ||
For the final year examination at her secondary school, Margaret Christina was summarily listed as having achieved an '''A''' grade in the majority of her subjects, whilst also achieving a '''B''' grade in return for the rest of the subjects she took for the examination. | For the final year examination at her secondary school, Margaret Christina was summarily listed as having achieved an '''A''' grade in the majority of her subjects, whilst also achieving a '''B''' grade in return for the rest of the subjects she took for the examination. | ||
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| Margaret Christina | |||||
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| Queen of the Scandinavians | |||||
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| Queen of Denmark | |||||
| Reign | April 5, 2020 — present | ||||
| Predecessor | Charles IV | ||||
| Queen of Norway | |||||
| Reign | April 5, 2020 — present | ||||
| Predecessor | Charles VI (Charles IV) | ||||
| Queen of Sweden | |||||
| Reign | April 5, 2020 — present | ||||
| Predecessor | Charles XVII (Charles IV) | ||||
| Born | Margaret Christina Elizabeth Ingrid 2 January 1997 Stockholm Palace, Sweden | ||||
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| House | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg | ||||
| Father | Charles IV | ||||
| Mother | Joan Mouritsen | ||||
| Religion | Church of Denmark Church of Norway Church of Sweden | ||||
Margaret Christina (Margaret Christina Elizabeth Ingrid; born 2 January 1997) is the Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Alternatively, she is also titled Queen of the Scandinavians. She acceded to the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish thrones upon the abdication of her father, Charles IV (Charles VI - Norway, Charles XVII - Sweden), on April 5th 2020. Upon her ascension to the throne, she became both Denmark and Norway's second queen regnant, while also becoming Sweden's fourth queen regnant in its history. As per the royal rotation system established by the 1839 Constitution, Margaret Christina's "enthronement" took place in a scaled-down ceremony in Norway, since her father's "enthronement" had previously took place in Sweden. Therefore, the "enthronement" of her successor is expected to take place in Denmark afterwards.
A self-described "futuristic and technophilic Queen", Margaret Christina is an avid supporter of the wider use of technology in daily human lives, and is also an outspoken monarch in favour of automation. Additionally, she has also publicly spoken out in favour of extensive digitalisation across the United Kingdoms, along with both the construction and revamping of cities into smart cities, with both initiatives having received much financial support from the Queen herself.
Since the establishment of the United Kingdoms in 1839, Margaret Christina, due to her decision to adopt a form of double regnal names as opposed to a singular one, thus became the first monarch in the union's history to be referred to with a single regnal number in each of her respective constituent kingdoms, unlike her predecessors whom, in accordance to the 1839 Constitution, are often referred to in each constituent kingdoms with differing regnal numbers due to the varying lists of monarchs that reigned in each of the three kingdoms.
Early Life
Margaret Christina was born on January 2nd 1997 at the Swedish royal residence of Stockholm Palace, as the eldest child of Charles IV, King of the Scandinavians and Joan Mouritsen, a former Swedish lawyer. As the eldest child of the reigning sovereign, Margaret Christina was immediately designated as heir apparent, along with the accompanying title of Crown Princess of the Scandinavians. Her full name, Margaret Christina Elizabeth Ingrid, consisted of names respectively honouring the famed Queen Margaret of Denmark, founder of the Kalmar Union, Queen Christina of Sweden, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and lastly, notable 20th-century Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman.
As it was required of her being a future sovereign of the United Kingdoms, Margaret Christina was simultaneously baptised into all of the three Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish national churches. At the same time, the princess's birth, upon being announced to the public across the United Kingdoms, proved to be an immediate source of joy as Margaret Christina was expected to become the second queen regnant of a united Scandinavia after her 15th-century predecessor, Queen Margaret, whom had been the sole female ruler of the former Kalmar Union, which lasted from 1397 to 1537.
Educational Years
For the first five years of her life, Margaret Christina and her family initially lived at the royal residence of Stockholm Palace, which had been the princess's birthplace. At the same time, the royal family would also occasionally alternate between the various, and other royal residences in the United Kingdoms, namely Amalienborg in Denmark, and the Oslo Palace in Norway. As a direct consequence, a young Margaret Christina was quickly exposed as a whole to the differing cultures present within the union, which would become the general basis for her multilingual education focus. Nevertheless, at the age of five, she was enrolled instead at a Swedish kindergarten in Stockholm, where she generally went to until the age of seven.
Primary & Secondary Years
Upon reaching the age of seven, the royal family subsequently moved to Denmark, where after a brief interregnum following their arrival, Margaret Christina was enrolled next at a local primary school, namely the International School of Hellerup, located in the Hellerup district of the capital city of Copenhagen. While there, as to not have the princess distinguished from her peers due to her royal status, Margaret Christina was officially enrolled at the school under her first two names, with the notable absence of her HRH title. Then, at the age of twelve, upon completing her primary school education, she was subsequently enrolled, this time at the Bjerke Upper Secondary School in the Norwegian capital city of Oslo. However, the notable difference in the language of instruction used by the school proved somewhat initially difficult for Margaret Christina, causing the young princess to reportedly experience some setbacks in her academic studies, due to her initial inability to learn in a different language. As a result, the princess's initial hardships led her parents to temporarily withdraw her from the school to a more private form of education at home, where in addition to the general subjects she was tutored in by her respective tutors, she was also extensively taught in the Norwegian language, as a means to properly facilitate Margaret Christina's return to her Norwegian school. Eventually, after a three weeks long interruption in her public studies, and upon being deemed able to communicate in a basic manner in the Norwegian language, Margaret Christina was finally allowed to return back to her secondary school, where in stark contrast to her previous experience at the school, she was able to exhibit a generally modest performance in her studies, thanks to her newfound understanding of the local language itself.
For the final year examination at her secondary school, Margaret Christina was summarily listed as having achieved an A grade in the majority of her subjects, whilst also achieving a B grade in return for the rest of the subjects she took for the examination.
University Years
Upon graduating from the Bjerke Upper Secondary School, after much public debate surrounding her subsequent choice for university, Margaret Christina ultimately chose to take a rather nonpartisan approach by mirroring her own father, whom had prior chose to study abroad at the prestigious University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Eventually, after a two years long study at the university, during which time she met both British prime ministers, David Cameron and Theresa May, Margaret Christina eventually graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in technology which, in a subsequent interview later on, was revealed by Margaret Christina herself to had been a contentious choice, having initially decided against it in favour of a bachelor's degree in the law field instead. Nevertheless, Margaret Christina later publicly spoke out in favour of her said decision, which she then referred to as an "opportunity to be involved in more world-changing decisions than ever".
Having been simultaneously made a member of the council of states of all three constituent kingdoms by her father, Charles IV, upon reaching the age of eighteen, Margaret Christina did not officially begin to assume her role as a said member however until after her graduation from university. Thus, in the days following her return to Scandinavia from the United Kingdom, Margaret Christina immediately begin assuming her duties as a counsellor of state, in which capacity, she would mostly chair the Council meetings in the absence of the King. On January 10th 2018, as Crown Princess of the Scandinavians, Margaret Christina held a private meeting with all three of the respective ministers of education and research from the three constituent kingdoms, after which, she then publicly pledged a total amount of fifteen million dollars in the form of financial funds to the said ministries of all three kingdoms. Later on, she then most notably declared in a speech, "A mighty economy leads to mighty technologies". On March 2018, during the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, Margaret Christina, in her first international speech as crown princess, openly advocated for the "globalisation of sustainable cities across the globe". At the same time, she also concurrently urged for a "progressive" form of financial aid from much wealthier nations to both the developing and underdeveloped countries, both of which she referred to as "untapped hopefuls for a sustainable feature".
In the following month of April, Margaret Christina conducted her first official overseas trip to a foreign country when she visited neighbouring Germany, where she met {wp|German}} Chancellor, Angela Merkel, with whom she held a series of private meetings aimed towards generally improving the pre-existing Scandinavian-German relations, amidst a brief rumour at the time alleging that the two had privately met to discuss a much anticipated entry of the United Kingdoms into the European Union. Nevertheless, over the span of a couple of weeks afterwards, Margaret Christina then embarked on a series of multi-nation trips, nicknamed the Nord-Euro Trips, due to it being centered around the countries of northern Europe, all of which, with the notable exception of Belarus, was visited by the crown princess. Then, in the month of July, her first intercontinental trip abroad came about when she visited the Middle Eastern Sultanate of Oman, whose then ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, she particularly praised for the domestic modernisation and general impartiality in regards to foreign issues achieved by the latter.
Donald Trump
A somewhat moderately outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, on January 3rd 2020, Margaret Christina became the sole constitutional monarch to publicly criticise then President Donald Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian major general, Qasem Soleimani. In reference to the incident, Margaret Christina characterised it as a "daunting obstacle to overcome in order to achieve mutual peace with the Iranian republic". She then promptly reaffirmed her country's support for the JCPOA agreement, in which she declared, "Scandinavia will continue, and will always stand for peace".
COVID-19
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe, the crown princess's planned engagements were promptly cancelled, with the crown princess herself choosing to relocate to the royal manor house of Ledaal, located in the city of Stavangen, Norway. Soon after that, the crown princess then addressed the public through a televised broadcast, in which she urged for "reasonable compliance, and utmost vigilance against the unknown enemy". Following this, on January 22nd, and on the subsequent day of January 23rd, the crown princess notably chaired a special online meeting with the respective foreign ministers, and on the next day, the respective prime ministers of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, durimg which, throughout the course of the two days long meeting, the crown princess was said to had mostly discussed the issue of border control with both the three foreign ministers and three prime ministers themselves.
2020 Abdication Crisis
On March 30th 2020, at exactly 8:30 A.M., following a prior announcement from Amalienborg that the reigning King Charles IV had been tested positive with the virus, an impromptu declaration from all three of the prime ministers of the union, unilaterally declared Margaret Christina to be the Regent of Scandinavia, as her father had been deemed unfit to "properly carry out royal functions as sovereign". Then, a day after the declaration was made, all three of the prime ministers, along with the members of each three separate privy councils, subsequently met at the Norwegian royal residence of Oslo Palace, where all the parties involved wholly agreed to wait for an initially unspecified amount of period before they were to begin deliberating on the possible case of abdication of the reigning sovereign. At the same time, King Charles IV himself, whom had been in quarantine since, and treated to at thw royal residence of Amalienborg was reported of being in a "mildly stable" condition.
Ultimately, on the early morning of April 5th 2020, when it was first privately disclosed thst the King intends to abdicate as the reigning sovereign, on the grounds of "ill-health and lack of ability to consistently carry out further royal duties as sovereign", the prime ministers and members of the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedieh privy councils subsequently convened together once more for a second time at Oslo Palace, where at approximately 9:30 A.M., she was proclaimed Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
As she had been enthroned in the constituent kingdom of Norway, under much normal circumstances, Margaret Christina was to then undergo a benediction ceremony as per the Norwegian tradition, but this was then promptly replaced with a simple oath-taking ceremony in which she took an oath of allegiance in front of all the three prime ministers, along with the privy council members present at the palace. Soon after her ascension to the throne was finally announced to the general public, a royal decree was promptly issued whereby Margaret Christina's father, follpwing his impromptu abdication, would be styled King-emeritus of the Scandinavians, and accordingly, King-emeritus of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the same time, the customary tradition in which a succeeding monarch would be "presented" to the public from the palace balcony was also temporarily discontinued, out of the overwhelming recommendations by health experts.
Reign
Having acceded to the throne in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Margaret Christina remained largely confined within her royal residence of Oslo Palace. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the pandemic, she has also regularly appeared on numbers of televised broadcasts from her royal residence, from where she would routinely advise the general public to comply with the established health and safety guidelines. However, the most notable of her televised broadcasts came about on May 8th when, in commemorating the Victory in Europe Day aswell, Margaret Christina also further reminded the public of the hardships of the ongoing pandemic by stating, "Our precious survival throughout the Second World War was never made out of complacency, but rather out of vigilance and intelligence. This time, we shall do so again".
During the early developmental phase of the British-Swedish Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Margaret Christina herself wss reported to had privately donated a total amount of ten million dollars in favour of the vaccine's research. Later on, she was subsequently chosen as being among the first in Scandinavia to receive a dose of the vaccine, an occasion that was televised live in order to generate widespread trust in the vaccine.
On January 10th 2021, she openly condemned then President Donald Trump for his apparent role in the 2021 United States Capitol attack, which saw the then president's supporters storming the national legislative building, whose occupants had been in the process of certifying the victory of the soon-to-be President and Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Margaret Christina then subsequently welcomed the newly-elected President's Biden's decision to reinstate the United States into the Paris Climate Agreement, which she referred to as a "noble correction of one of the darkest errors of all".
Personal Information
As the reigning monarch of three different kingdoms with their own respective languages, Margaret Christina is generally recognised as being able to generally conversate in a fluent manner in all three languages, a talent she has since attributed to her language tutors.
Along with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Margaret Christina is one of the only two remaining European monarchs to currently reign over multple countries at once, although in the particular case between the two reigning queens, the former is perceived of being the monarch of a single kingdom (hence the name United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), while Margaret Christina herself is perceived as being the monarch of three different kingdoms with a generally equal level of representation (hence the name United Kingdoms of Scandinavia [alternatively Denmark, Norway, and Sweden]).
Vehicle Collection
Despite inheriting a much classical collection of cars that had been previously used by her predecessors, and later on generally preserved by their respective succesors, Margaret Christina is nevertheless respectively seen mostly driving a Norwegian-made Buddy electric car when in Norway, a Danish-made CityEl electric car when in Denmark, and lastly, a Swedish-made NEVS 9-3EV electric car when in Sweden.
For official royal functions, Margaret Christina generally drives an electrified BMW 6 Series vehicle which, due to her status as the reigning monarch of three different kingdoms, saw an additional two more exact models of it being made for her own personal convenience when she is residing in either of the other two kingdoms.
Titles & Honours
- 2 January 1997 - April 5 2020 Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of the Scandinavians
- April 5 2020 - Present Her Majesty The Queen
Honours
National
Denmark:
- Sovereign of the Order of the Elephant
- Master of the Order of the Dannebrog
Norway:
- Recipient of the Royal Family Order of Charles VI of Norway
- Grand Master of the Order of St. Olav
Sweden:
- Sovereign of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
- Sovereign of the Order of the Sword
- Sovereign of the Order of the Polar Star
- Sovereign of the Order of Vasa
- Sovereign of the Order of Charles XIII
- Sovereign of the Order of Charles XIV
Foreign
United Kingdom - Stranger Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter- United Kingdom - Extra Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
France - Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour
Germany - Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Iceland - Grand Cross of the National Order of the Falcon
Latvia - Grand Officer of the Order of the Three Stars
Estonia - The Collar of the Cross of Terra Mariana
Lithuania - Knight's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great
Finland - Commander of the White Rose of Finland- Finland - Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland