The 84-year-old Queen Margrethe is said to be ‘in good hands’ at hospital (Picture: Getty Images)
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has been taken to hospital after falling in her home.
She put the Danish royal family under spotlight when she abdicated earlier this year, handing the throne to her son Frederik.
Now the 84-year-old has been rushed to hospital after a fall at the Fredensborg Castle north of Copenhagen, local media reports citing the royal house.
Queen Margrethe II is reportedly not seriously injured.
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe signs a declaration of abdication next to her son Frederik (Picture: Mads Claus Rasmussen/EPA)
Lene Balleby, the head of communications for the royal household, said: ‘According to the circumstances, the queen is doing well, but was admitted for observation for the time being.’
While the official royal household declined to comment further, King Frederik said ‘she is in good hands,’ AP news agency reports.
He told reporters as he arrived to the 100th anniversary celebration of the Copenhagen Chapel Choir: ‘We take it day by day. The doctors are the ones who decide.’
Even after abdicating, the Queen hasn’t remained idle.
She was scheduled to appear at the 75th anniversary of the Department of Archaeology at Aarhus University, but this has now been cancelled.
Margrethe studied prehistoric archaeology at Copenhagen University – and she has revealed she would have become an archaeologist had she not become the monarch of Denmark.
She was forced to abdicate earlier this year after back surgery and other ailments despite always saying during her 52-year reign she would not hand over the crown.
The Queen became the first Danish monarch in 900 years to abdicate.
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