Which queen reigned the longest

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Sign up. Share this page. Popular titles. She became Queen when her father died on 14 January A heavy smoker, an artist, and now aged 76, she largely retains Denmark's affections. Queen Margrethe said she had no intention of standing down to allow her son Crown Prince Frederik to take over, as "you are handed your job as the old king or queen dies". She said she was inspired at her own proclamation by Queen Elizabeth's statement on her coronation 19 years earlier that she would dedicate herself to serve the nation.

Although she is the first Queen of Denmark, Margaret I was ruler of the Scandinavian countries from , during the Kalmar Union, which joined Denmark, Sweden including Finland and Norway together. Denmark country profile. But people may recognise him better as the man who presents the Nobel Prize.

His father had been killed in a plane crash in He was only nine months old when his father died and his childhood lay behind a later, personal message to Swedish survivors of the tsunami.

At a memorial service in he told them: "I know what it means to grow up without a dad. Show us your drawings, your tears, sorrow and anger. By Hope Coke. Still holding on to the top spot, with an impressive year and day reign, is Louis XIV of France. The Queen has proved a resilient ruler thus far, so perhaps in just under five years time she could even push Louis from the top spot. By Chandler Tregaskes. Her nearly year reign is the longest of any British monarch.

A quiet and uncomplaining dedication to the duty of queenship, even in old age, has earned her widespread respect both in Britain and abroad, even from republicans who are eager for abolition of the monarchy.

The Queen is head of state of 15 Commonwealth countries in addition to the United Kingdom. She is also head of the Commonwealth itself, a voluntary association of 54 independent countries.

Charles' younger son, Harry, and wife Meghan said in an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this year that one unidentified royal had made a racist remark about their first-born child.