BT has compiled a number of anecdotes of chance encounters between ordinary people and QMII.
Most of them are from the 70's back when DK was much more innocent and provincial (= no one came and nothing happened.)
https://www.bt.dk/royale/ups-gav-dronning-margrethe-en-mavepuster
https://www.bt.dk/royale/turister-tabte-underkaeben-da-dronningen-uventet-dukkede-op-i-butik
A Mir tells about his/her mother who came to DK as a political refugee (judging from the name Eastern Europe.)
After work the mother sometimes went into a somewhat posh (back then) department store. Here she leaned forward to study something in a montre and turned around headbutting QMII in her belly. The mother was only 1.59 and QMII is 1.82.
That didn't bother QMII. The mother was always proud that she lived in a country where the head of state could walk around without being surrounded by security.
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And Ole tells about how he back in 1977 went into watch comedy, The Olsen Gang (for Scandinavian and German members).
The then 25 year old Ole sat next to a lady who had a good laugh (QMII is very fond of the quirky humor in the Olsen Gang series) and when the light went on he discovered he sat right next to QMII.
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A Benedicte worked in a high class glassware store in Copenhagen in the early 70s where she was helping a couple of American tourists, when suddenly QMII went in only accompanied by one security guard.
The tourists, with their jaws dangling between their knees, whispered: "Is that the Queen?"
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A Janes mor, tells about her mother who gave QMII a cigarette outside a church in Copenhagen, because QMII had forgot her bag.
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A Morten was a first-year apprentice in the beforementioned department store, when the then Hear QMII and CP Sonja to look at a pen for toddlers. An older retail worked asked whether she should take over. QMII responded: "No thank you, we are pleased with this young lady here." - That was a boost for the self-confidence!
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A Lene tells about her father who was a little late in attending a service in a not particular crowded church in Aarhus. He sat on the front row but had forgotten his book of psalms. An elderly lady sitting next to him shared her book with him. Only to discover it's QMII.
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The former PM, Helle Thorning reveals that QMII master almost all dialects in DK. (And you'd be surprised how many and how different they are!)
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A Henrik worked for many years in a photo store in CPH (Copenhagen) and had previously served QMII and Joachim. One day Frederik came in alone with a camera that needed a repair. When asked what he should write, Frederik smiled: "Just write Rex."
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A Snap remember QMII from the early 90s when he was 17. He saw QMII wearing rubber boots/wellies in an archeological dig that took place at the square outside the Cathedral. (Aarhus was founded in the 800s, and that area is among the oldest parts of the city.) She was totally absorbed!
Snap though she was a cool queen.
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An Aase Dunker attended a service in the Danish Church in London during the Olympics in 2012. Present were also QMII and Benedikte.
At the alter Aase kneeled beside QMII and Benedikte thinking: "When I was kneeling next to the Queen of Denmark, I felt we were equal before God. When we rose up I was again the Queen's subject."
Oh yes, balmy.
