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Three days after the Queen Margrethe II of Denmark’s dramatic announcement that she was abdicating the throne in favor of her son, the mood between Crown Prince Frederik, and his wife, Princess Mary, reportedly seemed to be “at freezing point.”
Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet cast doubt on the state of the couple’s connection in a terse account of their appearance at a reception to mark the New Year Wednesday morning. It was their first public engagement since the abdication bombshell was dropped
Their cutting analysis of the couple’s appearance began with an acerbic suggestion that they had perhaps been served cold coffee—Denmark has one of the world’s highest consumptions of coffee in the world and citizens of the chilly state are noted for not tolerating subpar cups.