Overshadowed by England's monarchy in the media, it its largely unknown that the Danish monarchy is one of the oldest and most unique royal institution in the world. An unbroken royal line of fifty kings and two queens is actually a world record. And even though not all the Danish king have by any means been world champions, the Danish monarchy throughout its thousand year history, from the Viking kings to the modern constitutional monarchy, has had an almost mythic ability to adapt to the social and political changes of the centuries. In many ways it has been the Crown that has preserved this small country at the tip of European continent through wars, revolutions, reformations and foreign occupation.
It was, and is, in the purely personal relationship between the individual monarch and the people that kingship has its roots in Denmark. Historians have pointed out that kingship can survive only when the holder of the office becomes the peculiar embodiment of the qualities which the people regards as characters of themselves. That it to say, the Danish people recognize themselves in the Queens, who remains very popular and a staunch symbol of the Danish political and social landscape.