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| • | "The 42-year-old monarch is a great cigarette smoker and doesn't mind who knows it...started out on Gauloises, moved through Greek and Egyptian cigarettes, and has now settled her taste firmly on Turkish rolls", Daily Mail (UK) (gossip column), c. '83 |
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| • | "she's a six-foot tall blonde who chain-smokes Greek cigarettes, dresses fashionably but is no mannequin and claims to be no role model for anybody", The Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 5, '91 |
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| • | "a smoker", Berliner Zeitung Mar. 15, '94
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| • | "Queen Margrethe II has just one vice - she is a chain-smoker", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Mar. 9, '95
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| • | "the heavy-smoking Queen", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Mar. 13, '95
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| • | "She has a special lackey who follows after her with an ashtray," said swedish Hagge Geigert, the columnist, a Copenhagen, Denmark newspaper responded with a headline reading, "Mind your own business, Swedes.", USA Today , Jan. 8, '97 |
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| • | "cigarette-loving queen...She has a special lackey who follows after her with an ashtray. She smokes everywhere. At official banquets, receptions, at parties at old-people's homes and so on", The Standard Times, Jan. 8, '97
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| • | "She smokes everywhere, even in care centres and public buildings where it is banned", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 9, '97 |
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| • | "she smokes strong Greek cigarettes", Die Welt (Germany), Jan. 11, '97
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| • | "enormous cigarette consumption", "a heavy smoker", Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), Jan. 14, '97 |
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| • | "The Queen was caught in the crossfire of critics because of her public admission of smoking. Margrethe, however, remained cool as always, continued puffing on her cheap brand 'Queens' and didn't think at all about giving up smoking", Hamburger Morgenpost Online (Germany), Jan. 14, '97
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| • | "a Swedish TV host recently accused the Danish Queen of being an advertisement for a drug with her chain-smoking", Die Welt (Germany), Jan. 16, '97 |
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| • | "Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is in strife for chain-smoking while visiting asthma sufferers at an old people's home", Metropolitan (Melbourne), Jan. 20, '97
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| • | "Responding to a column in which a Swedish journalist called chain-smoking Queen Margrethe II a 'plague-woman,' Danish newspapers declare, 'MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, SWEDES'", website (down), Jan. '97 |
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| • | "the chronically high cigarette consumption of the monarch", Rhein-Zeitung Online, Feb. 3, '98
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| • | "No doubt it's going to be a long evening for the Queen, her husband and two sons who all love to have more than an occasional puff", Copenhagen Post (Denmark), May 28, '98
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| • | "the Danish monarch is an ardent smoker and is also seen smoking in public", Jungle World website, Sep. 9, '98
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| • | "already looking forward to the cigarettes she loves, continued enjoyment of which she had ensured by requesting from Copenhagen a smoking room at the hotel 'Walhalla' and asking at the episcopal college where the heads of state had reserved a day room for a breather", Die Welt (Germany), Oct. 26, '98
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| • | "chain-smoking royal", Daily Telegraph (UK), Nov. 14, '98
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| • | "chain-smokes", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Nov. 15, '98
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| • | "had to learn that strict anti-smoker rules also apply to Heads of State. The chain-smoker had to manage without smoking because she had booked a 'smoke-free' Lufthansa flight to Brazil", Bild-Zeitung (Germany), Apr. 29, '99
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| • | "a queen who smokes", New Statesman (UK), May 17, '99
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| • | "the Danish monarch is a heavy smoker of pungent, untipped Greek cigarettes...Queen Margrethe confesses: 'Wherever there's an ashtray, I will smoke' " w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 3, '00 |
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| • | "Margrethe is... a chain-smoker", ITV Teletext (UK), Feb. 16, '00 |
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| • | "if the chain-smoking monarch lights up one of her untipped Greek gaspers", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 16, '00 |
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| • | "The drag Queen is here... The chain-smoking 59-year-old...When asked recently how she was dealing with her 'smoking problem' the queen replied crisply: 'I have no problem.' A heroine of our times", The Times (UK), Feb. 17, '00
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| • | "Margrethe of Denmark stands by her vice...the chain-smoking Queen...[during a press conference] she smoked two more of her famous notoriously aromatic Karelias", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Mar. 21, '00
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| • | "Queen Margrethe II's heavy smoking habit was thrust into the realms of international debate when an article in the British medical journal, The Lancet, suggested a possible link between deaths from smoking among Danish women and the queen's ascension to the throne in 1953.", BBC News, Mar. 23, '00
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| • | "Denmark's favourite Queen and favourite smoker...the chain-smoker. who, if need be, has an ashtray carried behind her", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Apr. 15, '00
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| • | "Margrethe smokes 60 cigarettes a day", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Apr. 18, '00 |
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| • | "the tall, chain-smoking, enviably popular and impressively educated Queen Margrethe II of Denmark", Royal Flush website, Jun. 15, '00
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| • | "the Danish Queen is renowned as a heavy smoker", Vasabladet (Sweden), Jun. 28, '00
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| • | "reputedly smokes like a chimney", The Express (UK), Jul. 8, '00
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| • | "the chainsmoking queen", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 25, '00 |
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| • | "[Her status] does not stop her from having a cigarette or two - an hour...Both King Harald of Norway and Queen Margrethe of Denmark are smokers...heavy-smoking Queen Margrethe", Aftonbladet (Sweden), Nov. 2, '00
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| • | "chain smokes", Die Welt (Germany), Dec. 2, '00
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| • | "The sovereign seems more at ease in interview, all the more so over the years as she no longer nervously smokes numerous cigarettes...It is very hard to find fault with this intellectual queen. Perhaps the fact that she smokes three packs of cigarettes a day?", French website, '00
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| • | "Queen Margrethe criticised for smoking...Her long-term consumption of cigarettes...'Most Danes are the opinion that everyone may do as he likes' , the monarch announced at a press conference during which she inhaled two cigarettes", Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "The Danish Queen Margrethe II is a chain-smoker. Since her youth she has practically been lighting one cigarette from another. She has a preference for French high-nicotine Gauloises cigarettes", Reformatorisch Dagblad (Netherlands), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "Margrethe doesn't want to give up smoking...With her heavy long-term consumption of cigarettes, the queen is jointly responsible for the uncommonly high and climbing mortality among Danish women between 45 and 74, the Belgian Hugo Keestelot wrote in the reputable British medical magazine, the Lancet...[Margrethe] repelled the attack yesterday. Most Danes are of the opinion that anyone can do as he wishes, the monarch announced at a 40-minute press briefing with Finnish journalists, during the course of which she inhaled two cigarettes. She classified the Lancet article as sensationalism...[her] very strong Greek cigarette brand Karelia has already caused difficulties for many curious test smokers", Mannheimer Morgenpost (Germany), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "Denmark's Ashtray Queen 'setting a deadly example'. Cigarette in hand, the chain-smoking Queen of Denmark has denied she is killing her female subjects by being 'a fatal role model'. But at a press conference during which she smoked two cigarettes, Queen Margrethe, 60, dismissed the claim as a 'sensationalist way to publish what most of us already know: that many Danish women smoke'. The queen, whose sons Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim smoke, though out of sight of the cameras, said she liked smoking and was not prepared to hide the fact....Asked recently how she was dealing with her smoking problem, she replied: 'I have no problem.'", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "The monarch is accustomed to regularly smoking cigarettes in public, strong Greek ones at that, and doesn't want to quit this vice under any circumstances. She roughly says: I am proud to be a smoker...[on being criticised] Queen Margre responded to the attacks at a press conference, during which she smoked two cigarettes. Even the blue haze created by a monarch can be a torch for liberalism. Even we, as non-smokers, are inclined to applaud", Die Welt (Germany), Mar. 22, '01
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| • | "She smokes? Like a chimney. She was dubbed the 'Ashtray Queen' when she smoked during a visit to asthmatics in an old people's home...She dismissed the article [linking her personal cigarette habit to an increase in the incidence of lung cancer in Danish women] as 'sensationalist' at a press conference in which she smoked two cigarettes", The Guardian (UK), Mar. 22, '01
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| • | "This woman lights up my life...I have fallen in love with Queen Margrethe of Denmark. How magnificent she was at her press conference on Tuesday when she dismissed claims by a Belgian professor that, because she smokes in public, she is responsible for the extraordinarily high death rate among her female subjects. Asked recently how she was dealing with her smoking problem, she replied: 'I have no problem'. But it was not so much what she said that impressed me, as what she did. In the course of her press conference, to her eternal credit, she smoked two cigarettes. What style. What grandeur. What a majestic way in which to show two fingers to her critics", Daily Telegraph, Mar. 23, '01 |
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| • | "The wrath of Queen Margrethe in favour of smokers...the Danish sovereign, herself a heavy smoker...it is true that Queen Margrethe is known as a notorious cigarette smoker", French website, Mar. 23, '01
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| • | "She called a press conference, lit a cigarette and denounced the article (linking her smoking to a rise in the incidence of lung cancer in Danish women) as 'a sensationalist way to publish what most of us already know: that many Danish women smoke'. Then she lit a second cigarette. In Sweden she became 'The Ashtray Queen' after she lit up during a visit to a hospice for asthmatics. She has a servant who follows her around with an ashtray, enabling her to maximise her smoking opportunities", The Sunday Telegraph (UK), Mar. 25, '01 |
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| • | "Queen Margrethe has one far less noble passion: cigarettes. Now, an expert says, there is evidence that her three-pack-a-day smoking habit could be harming her countrywomen...'The queen is very popular in Denmark and a known cigarette smoker,' Kesteloot writes. 'As a role model for women, the queen's example could offers an explanation for the unusual mortality in Danish women.'...Margrethe, born in 1940, grew up at a time when smoking was so socially acceptable that a daintily held cigarette was almost a required fashion accessory for female actors and European aristocracy. Throughout her adult life, the queen has smoked unabashedly. A story in a Canadian newspaper last year noted that her face betrayed 'no signs of a 60-a-day-cigarette habit (which her subjects would not dream of criticizing.)'", St. Petersburg Times, Apr. 15, '01
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| • | "Drag Queen. Denmark's Queen Margrethe doesn't hesitate to smoke in public. Is she setting a lethal example for her subjects?...At a reception for her 60th birthday last year, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark was toasted most royally by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is also her first cousin. Then Carl Gustaf turned to Margrethe and, using her family nickname, said half-jokingly, 'But come on, Daisy, when are you going to quit smoking?' Not anytime soon, it appears. Margrethe, who is, oddly enough, the patron of Denmark's Cancer Society, chain-smokes", People Magazine, Jun. 25, '01
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| • | "Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who is very popular, is often seen smoking in public and could be acting as a role model among young women", European Journal of Cancer, Jun. '01
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| • | "an unusually heavy smoker", RP online (Germany), Sep. 5, '01
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| • | "Her Majesty is a passionate collector of silverware. And a passionate smoker. A cigarette box which arrived [for exhibition] in Berlin, still contained a few of the royal fags", Die Welt (Germany), Sep. 28, '01
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| • | "when recently criticised for smoking in public, she immediately held a frank press conference at which she courteously declined to apologise - andchain-smoked", The Observer (UK), Feb. 10, '02
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| • | "Denmark's opera-loving, chain-smoking Queen Margrethe", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "When recently criticised for promoting smoking, she held a press conference and very politely declined to apologise. She smoked throughout", The Observer (UK), Feb. 24, '02
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| • | "Margrethe of Denmark does not lose face, although she chain-smokes in public", Stuttgarter Nachrichten (Germany), Mar. 2, '02 |
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| • | "Queen Margrethe II may switch to 'Lights' following an EU ban on the monarch's favorite cigarette brand for exceeding acceptable tar levels and improper packaging. The Greek cigarette brand, Karelia, has long been the Queen's smoke of choice, and was imported to a small number of shops, mostly to please her majesty. Queen Margrethe traditionally favors the full-size, unfiltered Karelias over the lower-tar, filtered Karelia slims, primarily marketed towards women. The brand's packing failed to meet a number of EU specs. The Queen continues to smoke publicly, despite mounting criticism of the habit", Copenhagen Post, May 31, '02
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| • | "even smoking in public", Sociological Research online (UK), May 31, '02
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| • | "Affectionately known as Daisy, the 6ft tall monarch is a 60-a-day chainsmoker", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 19, '02 |
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| • | "The Danes have even become accustomed to seeing Queen Margrethe II lighting one cigarette after another in public", La voix du Nord (France), Jul. 18, '02
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| • | "The much-loved Queen Margrethe, aged 62 and a 60-a-day chain smoker, is a stickler for tradition and it seems it would only be poor health that would force her to abdicate - and royal watchers say she is as strong as an ox despite her addiction to cigarettes", The Sunday Tasmanian (Australia), Oct. 6, '02
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| • | "Queen Margrethe is the official patron of the society - that's right, the chain-smoking, 30-a day, patron saint of smokers everywhere has put her royal nicotine-stained seal of approval on the Cancer Society", Copenhagen Post (Denmark), Nov. 28, '02 |
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| • | "the chain-smoking Queen of Denmark", where?, Dec. 16, '02
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| • | "the [European Union] Commission continues to pay Greek farmers to produce cheap poor-quality tobacco of the variety smoked by Denmark's own Queen Margrethe", The British European, Dec. '02
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| • | "an unusually candid two-hour, 14-cigarette-long interview...Journalist Brandreth had nothing but praise for the 30-year monarch - despite noting the 'political incorrectness' of her prodigious cigarette habit", Copenhagen Post, Jan. 9, '03 |
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| • | "smoked no fewer than 14 cigarettes during [a] two-hour interview...for Hello! magazine", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 16, '03 |
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| • | "In her left hand the passionate chain smoker is holding a cigarette, in her right a paintbrush", Die Welt (Germany), Jan. 19, '03
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| • | "chain-smokes (during our two hours together she gets through 14 cigarettes, taking them alternately from a packet in her handbag and an elegant silver cigarette box on the table)...blows away the cigarette smoke...an unapologetic chain-smoker...she lights up once more...taps the ash from her latest cigarette into a little silver funnel that is part of her ashtray. She is a very clean smoker...smiles and flicks her lighter", Hello! magazine (UK), Jan. 21, '03 |
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| • | "The Danish queen Margrethe has been strongly forbidden to smoke by her doctors...The 62-year-old monarch was operated on two weeks ago ago because of arthritis in her spinal cord. In order not to endanger the healing process with nicotine, the most popular smoker in Denmark must, for the time being, do without her favourite cigarette, Karelia, during her recovery stage at the Amalienborg Palace. For decades, this brand has been imported for the monarch from Greece. Because it is too high in harmful substances, sales in Denmark have been prohibited since the end of the nineties", Die Welt (Germany), Jan. 28, '03
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| • | "Royal watchers have estimated that the Queen smokes up to thirty strong Greek cigarettes every day", Copenhagen Post, Jan. 31, '03 |
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| • | "smoking like a chimney and knocking back red wine like there was no tomorrow", San Diego Union-Tribune, Sep. 7, '03
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| • | "Europe's most modern monarch. Margrethe II of Denmark chain-smokes...She smokes her cigarettes right up to the present day, although she has often been told that she is thereby inflicting damage equally to her own health and to anti-smoking campaigns", Welt am Sonntag (Germany), Sep. 21, '03
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| • | "a 6 ft 60-year-old who smokes 60 cigarettes a day", Sunday Express (UK), Nov. 16, '03 |
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| • | "chain-smokes Karelia non-filters", ZDF Television (Germany), Dec. 18, '03
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| • | "known for her love of unfiltered cigarettes", EasyJet In-flight Magazine, Feb. '04
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| • | "a furious smoker, which makes her endearingly human to the Danes but shocks American interviewers", The Australian, May 8, '04
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| • | "smoked one cigarette after another", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany), May 8, '04
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| • | "smokes like a chimney", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany), May 9, '04
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| • | "shown smoking a cigarette, a habit for which the 64-year-old monarch is known", Tacoma News Tribune, May 13, '04
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| • | "chain-smoking", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), May 14, '04
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| • | "Despite her addiction to cigarettes, Queen Margrethe's family history suggests she will last well into her eighties", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), May 15, '04
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| • | "it's well-known that the Queen (Margrethe II) smokes the strongest unfiltered cigarettes, the Cecil brand, available in Denmark. And when it was the Queen's 25th wedding anniversary - the Danes have this tradition where they come to the front of your house and greet you on the morning of a special anniversary by playing music to you - the Queen met the crowds by coming outside in her dressing gown, with the hair hanging out, you know the morning hair, chuffing away on a cigarette", Tasmania Examiner (Australia), May 16, '04
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| • | "suffered from cigarette withdrawal during the long ceremonies", German newspaper, May 25, '04
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| • | "a chain-smoker", Australian Gourmet Traveller, May '04
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| • | "Cigarettes for the Queen...the self-confident Margrethe II has never made a secret of the fact that she likes to smoke, even if the royal family nowadays wants, if possible, to give little cause for public imitation. The Queen's favourite brand was forbidden in Denmark, it does not correspond to EU guidelines. But she does not have to switch, because the court supplier continues to procure her beloved Greek brand Karelia. 'We have fortunately been able to secure a special supply from the Greek manufacturer, which satisfies customs and Her Majesty. We stock the cigarette discreetly - only for Her Majesty' ", ARD (German Television) website, Jul. 18, '04
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| • | "Cigarettes for the Queen - a Danish provider ensures the supply. Even Royal Highnesses are not immune to small vices. Queen Margrethe of Denmark is a passionate smoker...A court supplier, in the service of the Danish royals, provides Margrethe and her guests with the finest smoking products", ARD (German Television) website, Jul. 18, '04
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| • | "the only person allowed to light a cigarette in [Prince] Charles's presence", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Feb. 12, '05
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| • | "has yellowed teeth because she smokes like a steamroller", Now! Magazine (Canada), Mar. 10-16, '05
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| • | "chain smoking", The Crikey Daily (Australia), Mar. 16, '05
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| • | "Denmark's chain-smoking, easy-going Queen Margrethe", Japan Focus, Dec. 16, '05
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| • | "The most prolific royal smoker has to be Queen Margrethe. Denmark's monarch is a proud and somewhat vociferous proponent of smoking who ignores the criticism which often comes her way because of her unhealthy habit. In 1997, the Queen visited an asthma hospital and unashamedly smoked during her visit. This earned Margrethe the nicknames 'The Ashtray Queen' and the 'Drag Queen'. Pulled up by a journalist who asked her how she coped with her 'smoking problem', the Queen responded firmly, saying: 'I don't have a problem'. She even went so far as to hold a Press conference on the subject, throughout which she defiantly lit cigarette after cigarette... a proud and defiant chain smoker... Following particularly strong criticism of the Queen's habit, the owner of a cigar store in Las Vegas who proudly displays a portrait of Margrethe in his shop went on the record to defend her, telling the Copenhagen Post in 2002: 'She's renowned in our business. She smokes those extra-strong Greek cigarettes. None of this light crap. She's a cult, an icon, a spunky lady'", The Royalist website, Feb. 5, '06
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| • | "chain smoker", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Apr. 2, '06
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| • | "Margrethe's greatest weakness is considered to be smoking", Berner Rundschau (Switzerland), Apr. 16, '06
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| • | "Margrethe's greatest weakness is only her hard-to-stop urge for cigarettes, ", Main Post (Germany), Apr. 17, '06
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| • | "Neither the chain-smoking Queen of Denmark nor her husband has much regard for political correctness", The Times (UK), May 3, '06
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| • | "The chain-smoking reigning monarch of Denmark, Queen Margrethe II, remains the patron of the Danish Cancer Society. This would be less ironic if she openly and critically discussed her addiction, but she's quite unapologetic about it, insisting that she has a right to smoke. Cameramen have simply been told not to shoot her smoking", CBC News (Canada), May 3, '06
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| • | "Queen Margrethe forced to stub out the smokes. Margrethe got a new knee yesterday at ... hospital - where its totally forbidden to smoke indoors. It will be some tough times for Denmark´s queen in the coming days. Its not just that she has to recover from her knee operation - that normally takes 3-7 days depending on the size of the prosthesis - but also because at the same time she cannot smoke. ... hospital has very tight smoking rules writes BT. Since January 1, it is totally forbidden to smoke indoors. And its a fact that has many speculating at ... hospital, where Margrethe is admitted. - We have talked a lot about it. Maybe the press will end up getting a scoop, if they can photograph Margrethe being rolled up the stairs to smoke, says an employee [of] BT. The court does not wish to answer whether the queen can survive without nicotine for so long a time. 'I have no answer to that. The queen´s admission is a private matter and I dont know what one has thought of doing about this question', says the court´s information officer Lis M.Frederiksen to BT", Berlingske Tidende (Denmark), Jun. 2, '06
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| • | "Remains a smoker. The Queen, acknowledged to be a heavy smoker, reported that she denied herself nicotine as a consequence of her operation: 'But only for the two weeks in hospital, because it was forbidden and besides I had a terrible cold.' She did not follow the medical advice for a lasting non-smoking life", Kleine Zeitung (Austria), Aug. 10, '06
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| • | "A heavy smoker, the Queen has often been chided - not least by her own family - for neglecting her health", Australian Woman's Weekly, Sep. '06
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| • | "The Queen of Denmark will no longer smoke in public. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, known to be an inveterate smoker, has decided to no longer indulge in this habit in public, anticipating a cigarette ban in public places predicted for April 2007, the tabloid Ekstra Bladet reported on Thursday. She has also decided to drastically reduce her private consumption without giving up completely and despite the fact that she is regularly the object of criticism by her subjects and anti-smoking organisations. 'You will no longer see the Queen smoking in public', declared a spokesperson from the court, Lis Fredericksen, to the Danish newspaper. 'The Queen is going to reduce her private consumption, but she does not intend to completely give up cigarettes', she added", Le Soleil (Canada), Nov. 23, '06
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| • | "Danish Queen Quits Smoking - In Public At Least. Denmark's best-known smoker, Queen Margrethe II, has opted to quit - at least in public, reports said Thursday. Copenhagen tabloid Ekstra Bladet observed that the queen did not light up as usual at a recent reception at Copenhagen University. Palace spokeswoman Lis M Frederiksen told the newspaper that the queen aimed in future to refrain from smoking in public, although she has not quite managed to quit the habit completely. The 66-year-old monarch started to smoke in her youth. This summer she had a knee replacement and despite being head of state was not exempt from the hospital's smoking ban, she told reporters recently. During the summer she had a cold and did not smoke for two weeks, the newspaper said", Romanian website, Nov. 23, '06
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| • | "At 66, Queen Margrethe wants to take up the struggle against her nicotine dependency. As the Copenhagen court confirmed, the monarch, well-known and feared as a chain smoker, will at first no longer smoke at public appearances. Court spokeswoman Lise Frederiksen said in the newspaper 'Ekstra Bladet', directly addressing the Danish population: 'You will no longer see Her Majesty smoking in public.' In stage two the queen, otherwise extraordinarily popular with the people, will totally quit nicotine as her husband Prince Henrik (71) did several years ago. In spite of the ever-increasing pressure, even in Denmark, for more comprehensive smoking restrictions, Margrethe had clung on to her personal vice and, in so going, gladly made use of her royal privileges. 'Where there is an ashtray, I shall smoke' was her personal contribution to the debate about protecting non-smokers. In a miraculous way there was always an ashtray together with a person holding it to hand whenever the queen had to carry out her public royal duties somewhere in her kingdom. The court prescribed as an almost always followed 'unwritten rule' that photographers pictured Margrethe only on her more or less short smoke breaks. The queen sovereignly ignored for a long time the import ban on her favourite Greek brand for many decades, 'Karelia' with incredibly high nicotine content. She had the strong tobacco brought into Scandinavia through 'discreet diplomatic channels'. The decision of the most famous Danish smoker on her vice was made public at the same time as the introduction of new prohibition rules for publicly accessible areas in Denmark", Main Post (Germany), Nov. 23, '06
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| • | "Danish queen won't puff in public. Denmark's chain-smoking Queen Margrethe II has quit smoking cigarettes in public and drastically cut down on the habit in private ahead of a Danish ban on smoking in public buildings", Edmonton Journal (Canada), Nov. 24, '06
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| • | "No ifs or butts: 'Ashtray Queen' agrees to stub it out in public. Queen Margrethe: denies having a 'smoking problem'. The chain-smoking Queen Margrethe of Denmark, who has been cruelly dubbed the 'Ashtray Queen', has bowed to public opinion and decided to stop smoking in public. The move will disappoint those Danes who saw the 66-year-old monarch as one of the last bastions against political correctness. But with a new law banning smoking in public buildings soon to come into effect, the Queen had little choice. 'You will not see the Queen smoking in public any more,' Lis Frederiksen, the Danish court spokeswoman, said yesterday. Although the Queen was frequently criticised by anti-smoking campaigners, she had the press on her side. The other great Scandinavian smoking monarch is Carl Gustav of Sweden, although he has been hiding his packets and cigarette butts for years. The Danes - always sceptical of their larger neighbour - mocked the Swedish King's apparent hypocrisy. 'Is it a sign of responsibility for the Swedish King to slip off to the toilets to have a drag on the sly?' one Danish tabloid commentator asked. By contrast, when Queen Margrethe was asked about her smoking problem, she replied crisply, 'I have no problem' - before promptly lighting up. She also shrugged off criticism when she was seen lighting up in front of asthmatic pensioners at an old people's home. However, Queen Margrethe has finally fallen into line. When she visited Copenhagen University last week she did not once reach for the cigarette case in her handbag. When the law comes into effect next April, court employees also will have to kick the habit, or at least smoke at home. Apparently the Queen, despite still smoking in private corners of her palaces, wants to show solidarity with her courtiers", w/pic, The Times (UK), Nov. 25, '06
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| • | "The Ashtray Queen's surrender. Considered by many of her compatriots as one of the last bastions against political correctness, Queen Margrethe of Denmark has smoked all her life and, indeed, whenever she wanted and wherever she wanted. But that is said now to be over. Copenhagen - 'you will not see the queen smoking any more in public', said palace spokeswoman Lis Frederiksen according to reports in the British newspaper 'The Times'. Margrethe of Denmark is going to hide the royal fag from the public in future. In one move, she is yielding to the anti-smoking law, which forbids any smoking in Danish public buildings from next April. Although the queen has been frequently exposed to the attacks of nonsmoker organizations and has had to bear the nickname of 'ashtray queen', the Danish press was always firmly on her side. Whenever the self-willed chainsmoker was approaced about her cigarette consumption, she said: 'I do not have a problem' and shortly after lit her next cigarette. Even in front of asthmatic pensioners in an old-people's home, Margrethe did not shy away from smoking. According to the 'Times', the monarch wants, with her decision, to show solidarity with the palace employees, who may likewise only smoke in their private rooms in future. Many Danes love their queen for her unorthodox behaviour. And there is also no talk of Margrethe wanting to stop smoking completely", Der Spiegel (Germany), Nov. 25, '06
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| • | "The queen to smoke secretly. The queen of Denmark, Margrethe, who smokes constantly decided not to smoke in front of the public in order to improve her image. The queen viewed with her cigarette in the hand and nicknamed as ashtray Margrethe decided to smoke secretly from now on. With the enforcement of the law banning to smoke in public places, the queen has no choice", Sabah (Turkey), Nov. 26, '06
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| • | "Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, as well as his younger brother Prince Joachim still smoke when they visit the crown prince's home", The Age (Australia), Oct. 8, '07
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| • | "Long live the vulcan queen!... she smokes 60 cigarettes a day... is also called 'the vulcan queen' because of her incessant smoking", Bunte magazine (Germany), Apr. 15, '08
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| • | "Margrethe's smoking was about to stop the wedding. Prince Joachim had to ask his mother to go outside to smoke during Saturday's wedding breakfast. Prince Joachim and Princess Marie's wedding breakfast was close to being cancelled, as servants in the kitchen refused to serve, because there was smoke in the room where the dinner was consumed... Although Queen Margrethe has chosen not to smoke in public anymore, she continues to smoke in private contexts. Prince Joachim had to ask his mother to go outside when she had to smoke. The queen agreed", Politiken (Denmark), May 29, '08
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| • | "When Queen Margrethe II is in residence, you might spot her having a cigarette at the window - one of her nicknames is 'The Ashtray'", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 16, '08 |
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| • | "When the Danish parliament banned smoking in planes, and Margrethe II started smoking on board out of habit, all the newspapers were writing about it. It was discussed whether it was possible to make an exception for the Queen", website
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| • | "She smokes like a chimney, and the people take bizarre pride in the fact that she only smokes Danish (Prince) cigarettes. Indeed, it would be unseemly for a Danish queen to smoke anything else", website
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| • | "Antismoking campaigners see Danish Queen Margrethe's habitual chain-smoking, in public, as setting a bad example", "Queen Margrethe's heavy cigarette-habit", website
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| • | "her ever-present cigarette. She smokes without apology, even, as happened last year, while visiting the asthma ward of a hospital", website
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| • | "Probably the most intelligent ruler a country can have, the central anchor point in what is Danish. Chain smoking and obsessed with life", Facts about Denmark website, when? |
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| • | "The Danish queen, Queen Margrethe 2nd, is loved by everyone and is a renowned artist. She smokes, too!", Around Copenhagen website, when?
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| • | "One subject to which the press alludes is her fondness for smoking - a 60-a-day habit", The Royal Report website, when?
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| • | "smokes like a chimney", website (Austria), when?
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| • | "[The Danes] even put up with Queen Margrethe II's chain-smoking in public", website, when?
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| • | "a beacon for oppressed smokers everywhere", FOREST website |
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| • | "In 1972, Margrethe II ascended the Danish throne. The popular mother of the country admits to being a chain-smoker and also often appears in the public with a cigarette", German website
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| • | "If you hang around this fantastic tobacconist (dating from 1864) long enough, who knows, you may even bump into Queen Margrethe, who buys her non-filtered Greek fags here (though for photos she smokes the Danish brand Prince)", website, when?
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| • | "known for being a chain-smoker", Wikipedia, when?
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| • | "smokes like a chimney", website
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| • | "Denmark's most popular woman, Queen Margrethe II, is a highly educated and creative person. For instance, she translated foreign novels, designed Danish stamps, Unicef postcards and ecclesiastical textiles (some are even embroidered by her personally), made scenographies for theatre and TV, and illustrated the Danish version of Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' as well as the New Danish Bible.The antis, however, can only see her cigarette. They call her 'Ashtray Queen' or even 'Drag Queen'. Being asked about her so-called smoking problem, she simply stated: 'I have no problem.' Warning: Smoking may cause extra creativity in Danish Royalties!", Forces (Austria), when? |
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| • | "the Queen was found contentedly smoking and taking a glass of port in the smoking saloon", where?, when?
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