Queen Margrethe of Denmark quit smoking at the age of 83, following the advice of her doctors before undergoing back surgery last February to avoid post-operative complications. The Queen of Denmark and the autonomous states of Iceland and Greenland smoked more than two packs a day of unfiltered Karelia for 66 years from the age of 17, while previously she smoked Virginia.
“I think the great thing about these cigarettes is that they make everything else tasteless. When I was young I smoked English Virginia cigarettes, but when my father died I realized they were stronger than good” the only Queen in the world today said, commenting and supplying her personal taste on the Greek originals. iefimerida.gr–Queen Margrethe quits cigarettes – She smoked obsessively unfiltered for 66 years, incredible incidents of audacity – iefimerida.gr
The news was first reported by Danish magazine Her & Nu and then confirmed by a royal spokesperson.
Queen Margrethe’s husband Eric smoked until 1997 when he was diagnosed with cancer of a malignant tumour in his left lung and died on February 14, 2018, of sleep apnoea and cerebral dementia.
The parents of Queen Margrethe of Denmark also smoked Chesterfield in the case of her father Frederick VI and until the end of her 90s for Queen Ingrid. It was her parents who taught her to smoke at the age of 17 in 1957. According to her memoirs which were published, “My father and mother smoked throughout my childhood and one day they asked me if I wanted a cigarette.” iefimerida.gr–Queen Margrethe quits cigarettes – She smoked obsessively unfiltered for 66 years, incredible incidents of audacity – iefimerida.gr.
The Danish Royal Family has consequently a complete history of smoking by its members.
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