President Serdar Berdimuhamedov sent sincere congratulations to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on her birthday, the Watan news program of the Turkmen television reported today.

Taking this opportunity, the head of Turkmenistan expressed his wishes to Queen Margrethe II of good health, happiness and prosperity, and to the people of Denmark - peace, further progress and prosperity.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark turns 83 today.

The birthdays of members of the royal family are not public holidays in Denmark, but they are included in the number of special dates.

Since the right to inherit the throne in Denmark passed through the male line, and King Frederick IX had no sons, in 1953 the law on succession to the throne was changed. In 1958, Crown Princess Margrethe became a member of the Council of State and was entrusted with the responsibility of holding Council meetings in the absence of Frederick IX.

The king died on January 14, 1972, and Margrethe officially assumed the Danish throne as Queen Margrethe II. The reigning Queen of Denmark is the supreme commander of the Danish Armed Forces, the head of the church of the Danish people.

Margrethe II is the longest-reigning monarch among the living monarchs of Europe. In 2022, she celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the reign and after the death of the British Queen Elizabeth II, who in the same year celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the reign, she became the longest-reigning European ruler and the longest-reigning woman in the world. In general, Margrethe, in terms of the duration of reign among the living monarchs, is in second place after the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, who was proclaimed Sultan on October 5, 1967 and crowned on August 1, 1968.