country we haven't gone in for that way of handing over. It's always been: you stay as long as you live. That's what my father did and my predecessors. And the way I see it too." In another 2016 interview, she said that her son would become king when she is "no longer here".

On 8 September 2022, following the death of her third cousin Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Margrethe became Europe's longest-reigning living monarch,