Monarchy of Denmark

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The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution of the Danish Realm, which comprises Denmark proper and the autonomous overseas territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, being the system by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the realm's head of state. The current monarch is King Frederik X, who ascended the throne following the abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II, on 14 January 2024. A Danish monarchy was already consolidated in the 8th century, whose rulers are consistently referred to in Frankish sources (and in some late Frisian sources) as "kings" (reges). Under the rule of King Gudfred in 804 it may have included all the major provinces of medieval Denmark. The current Danish realm was founded or re-united by the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the 10th century. Originally an elective monarchy, it became hereditary only in the 17th century during the reign of Frederick III. A decisive transition to a constitutional monarchy occurred in 1849...

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