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"Gradually he showed me everybody was going to help me in this...it was not a terrifying thing, but a great challenge."

"That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays."

"One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down."

"I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live."

"One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving."

"One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism."

"I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people."

"We can be very relaxed in our relationship with the Danish people...I feel extraordinarily privileged."

"There is nothing so clever as people you agree with."

"In spite of the many initiatives our society offers to help and support, recovery can be such a monumental task that some give up. They withdraw into themselves. Not least during Christmas and New Yea…"

"I will remain on the throne until I fall off!"

"One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind."

"We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before."

"For me it is always the colour, first and foremost."

"I think that people imagine protocol and etiquette as some kind of great dragon that hovers behind the pageantries of the palace to pounce on you and eat you up if you aren't behaving as you should. B…"

"Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 …"

"I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not th…"

"The fact that I am a woman has never really played into what I have done or not done. I have just been lucky that things have played out so that I could do things."

"We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural."

"I do not think one should chase the fashions of the day, concerning neither sweaters nor opinions."

"I would like to stress that the obligation has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorr…"

"In the course of the last few generations, society has developed in such a way that we can live more and more safely, both financially and socially. We have got used to being able to pick and choose q…"

"For me, it is a responsibility that does not include abdication. It is a task one has been given and taken upon oneself, and one does not relinquish it because it would perhaps be convenient personall…"

"God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark."

"Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life."

"You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service."

"But are we seeing indications these years that we have become more selfish, that we have become inclined to first and foremost make demands, and make sure that we all get what we ourselves think we ar…"

"I have always felt that it is a task that you are given, and that you have it as long as you live. That is my fundamental view. It is an integral part of the job that you have it for life."

"When people say that I may not speak, they forget that I may well think. I may think what I want, like everyone else. I shall just refrain from saying everything I think. That might be something many …"