female sovereign

Crowds lined the streets across the city to bid farewell to Queen Margarethe - who was the world's only remaining female sovereign.

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margrethe had become the world's only remaining female sovereign.

She became the first female sovereign of Denmark in 1972 at the age of 32 after the death of her father, King Frederick IX.

However, the barons of the day wouldn’t accept a female sovereign, clearing the way for Stephen of Blois, Henry I’s nephew, to take the throne.

As male consort to a female sovereign, Prince Philip had no constitutional position.