Denmark will have its own “Crown”, centered on Queen Margaret II

Yes, OK It’s always been an approach topic for fictionroyalty – as a narrative topic – has become coveted following the global success of The Crown, the Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Shortly after the premiere of the two-part sixth season, the television industry announced that it was already underway a biopic about former Danish queen Margaret II, who abdicated a week ago but will continue to have the honorific title of queen.

Currently, The project is in pre-production and does not have a defined streaming platform. for its launch. But Yes, its completion is confirmed, with the guarantee that the general production will be carried out by the Borgen team itself, the excellent series on the Danish Prime Minister, an audiovisual gem no matter how you look at it.

Margaret II abdicated on 14 January this year in favor of her son Frederick, with whom he visited Argentina a few years ago. The series “will reveal an important story affecting all of Denmark, told from the point of view of the Danish royal family and focusing on Margaret“said, in a note, the producer of TV2, Pernille Bech Christensen.

At the moment the screenplay has the original title Af Guds swims (which can be translated as “By the Grace of God”) and will locate it the year 1940 as the starting point of the story, since it is the year in which the brand new ex-queen was born: Arianahe came into the world on April 16th. In three months he will turn 84. The story will alternate his personal life with his arrival on the throne on January 14, 1972.

TV2 and the Sam Productions company –the same one produced by Borgen, on the vicissitudes of Danish political life, also with a woman as the central character– have been working on the new project for 18 months, but still no definition of cast nor emission.

“It is the story of a family, an institution and an anachronism struggling to maintain its relevance in modern times,” Bech Christensen said.

Just like the hit series The crownwho immersed the world in the history of the British monarchy, The Danish series will address the transformations of the royal family and Danish society. Filming will begin in 2025.

The Danish nobility

The royal family enjoys high popularity in this Scandinavian country of 5.9 million people. More than 100,000 people attended Frederick’s proclamation as the new king.

The life of Margaret set designer, charismatic, translator and costume designerit had already been told in a musical entitled Margherita pizzabut it had never had a series format.

After her resignation, she continues to hold the title of queen with honor and maintains the majesty treatment. She was the first – and so far only – woman to hold the title Crown Princess of Denmark, between 1953 and 1972.

Born within the Glücksburg Houseroyal house originally from northern Germany, she is the eldest daughter of Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden.

He succeeded his father after his death on January 14, 1972 (He celebrated 52 years in royal power). She had previously been named legal heir to her father in 1953, when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne.

Margaret became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries between 1375 and 1412 during the Kalmar Union. In 1967 she married Enrique de Laborde de Monpezatwith whom he had two children: Federico (born 1968) e Joaquin from Denmark (born 1969).

Having been on the throne for 52 years, he is the second longest-serving Danish monarch after Christian IV. And, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, She had become the only woman head of a monarchy. On December 31, 2023, during his New Year’s Eve speech, he announced that he would abdicate in favor of Prince Frederick (now King Frederick X).