Translation of a Q&A in Billed Bladet #41, 2011.
Where a Anne Marie Pedersen asks:
Is it true that Frederik IX blamed Queen Ingrid for not delivering him a male heir?
Jon Bloch Skipper replies:
Queen Margrethe's father hoped, like all kings before him, that he would have a son.
Instead he got three daughters whom he loved above everything on earth. If there was anyone who was annoyed it was Queen Ingrid herself.
She was a woman who was very conscious of traditions she would have liked to have given her husband a son.
After the birth of Anne-Marie in 1946, the docters made it clear to her, that she was not able to handle yet a another pregnancy.
Until the change in the Law of Succession in 1953, it was Frederik IX's younger borther, Prince Knud, who was the heir to the throne in Denmark. With the change however, Princess Margrethe became heir to the throne, while Knud got the title of Arveprins = something like Prince Successor or Prince Heir.
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