Queen Margrethe II would frequent the London Tube as she made haste for a “secret rendezvous” with Prince Hendrik, a royal commentator has claimed.
Speaking on GB News, Michael Cole spoke on his staggering encounters with the Queen who has opted to end her reign.
Branding her an “utterly charming person”, Cole told Anne Diamond and Stephen Dixon about meeting Margrethe II while he worked at Harrods.
“She had that lovely, almost slightly goofy approach we had”, he said.
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“I was the director of public affairs at Harrods and we had a Danish promotion on, and she came to open it.
“I had to meet her, and I said, ‘Your Majesty, I’m afraid I have to tell you, you cannot smoke in the store’, she was a chain smoker.
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“She said to me, ‘oh, that’s all right, but I don’t mind because I owe everything to Harrods’.
“I asked her to tell me how, and she said, ‘When I was studying at Cambridge, I used to get the train completely alone, no detective to guard me anonymously.
“I would go to King’s Cross, get on the tube, the Piccadilly Line to Knightsbridge, and I would meeting in the banking hall in Harrods, my boyfriend Henry from the French Embassy nearby.
“That was our secret rendezvous’.”
Margarethe II would go on to marry Henry, who then became Prince Henrik.
Denmark’s royal handover this weekend marks the first of its kind for 900 years in the country.
The abdication sees her pass the throne to her oldest son Crown Prince Frederik.
The succession formally takes place at a ceremony in parliament today, with the country’s longest serving monarch signing the declaration of her abdication.
Danes have been gathering in front of the country’s parliament in Copenhagen for the momentous occasion.
There will be no Coronation as would be the case in Britain.
The succession itself will take place during a meeting of the Council of State at parliament, where the government, Frederik and his oldest son Christian, 18 years old and the new heir to the throne, will participate.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will proclaim the new king on the balcony of the parliament and Frederik will give a short speech.
