All the style of Margrethe of Denmark, the coolest queen in the realm, who has been on the throne for 50 years

With that floral oilcloth fabric most people would make a nice tablecloth to put in the garden. There Queen Margrethe II instead he brought the festive colored remnant bought years earlier in England a Jørgen Bender, the trusted tailor of the Danish royal house, to make him a raincoat to wear on any occasion.

To understand the personality of the sovereign who is celebrating hers today golden jubilee one must necessarily venture into his never predictable wardrobe. Born on April 16, 1940 during the Nazi occupation of Denmark e ascended to the throne on January 14, 1972 upon the death of his father King Frederik IX, was and still is very popular in his country and beyond.

Cultured and eclectic, she is very different from the queens we are used to reading in the chronicles. He studied archeology in Cambridge and Political Sciences to the Sorbonne and to London School of Economics. However, art is his great passion, so much so that he successfully dabbled in painting, costume design and set design.
Under the pseudonym of Ingahild Grathmer illustrated the Danish edition of The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (with the writer’s approval) while in 2023 the release of Honor guard, a Danish Netflix film directed by Bille August based on the novel by Karen Blixen which boasts a scenography imagined by Margrethe.

It is therefore not surprising to know that in the clothes he has shown off in all these years (many of them we can see in the gallery below) there is often his hand also by virtue of the excellent relationships he had and still maintains with Danish designers.

In her wardrobe, described in a 2012 book The queen’s clothes from Katia Johansen and told in various exhibitions dedicated to his style, there are creations by Erik Mortensen, right arm of Pierre Balmain succeeded the couturier after his death, the aforementioned Jørgen Bender, designer who had the honor of signing the wedding dress for the wedding with Henri de Laborde de Monpezat (later called Henrik at Danimarca) but also contemporary names such as Mogens Eriksen e Birgitte Thaulow.

The latter two are linked to the outfit with which the queen has catalysed all the spotlight on herself during the marriage of eldest son Frederik to Australian Mary Donaldson in 2004. Eriksen’s showy white dress with flowers tending to fuchsia while the overcoat tone on tone came out of Thaulow’s tailor’s shop.

In this case, that garment with some adjustments became a dress after a few years. As evidence of the fact that the queen knows the value of her clothes, especially those that seem to come out of a fairy tale made with the finest fabrics, and has never hesitated to wear them several times or to give them a new life, even before there was talk of circular and sustainable fashion.

Flowers together with colors are his great passion. She is certainly the most “floral” queen of all and, if there is one detail that recurs frequently, it is the one margherita. Margrethe is indeed called Daisy, «Margherita» in English. One of her favorite jewels is a diamond brooch in the shape of a daisy given to her by her mother Ingrid as an important family heirloom.

As for the colors, it’s hard to pinpoint the queen’s favorite. Green appears in every shade, yellow illuminates many of her daytime looks while red has always been a constant suitable for all circumstances. In the shots that portray her we can see many of the daring combinations that she has given herself without worrying about what they might have said about certain choices. Lover of hats, he has a large collection and it’s not just ceremonial headdresses: it’s not unusual to see her wearing either fedoras, rain caps or baseball caps.

It is strange to see how, hand in hand with the acquired confidence in the crown that he has been wearing for exactly fifty years, his hazards came with maturity. “I got older and got more shamelessHe had confessed to Katia Johansen on the occasion of her ruby ​​jubilee. It’s time the jubilee turned golden, we can see how dresses haven’t gotten more dreary over the last decade, far from it. His joyful style, at least in appearance, has not been affected either by age or by the pandemic emergency. Perhaps it is in the cheerfulness that that “shameless” wardrobe emanates the secret to being a queen as loved by her people as on the first day.

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