"Intimate details of Queen Margrethe's younger years revealed in new books".
They are Margrethe, My Life in Images and Three Sisters, which is about the Queen and her two younger sisters Princess Benedickte and Anne-Marie of Greece.
The first book is based on various conversations the queen had with the author along with hundreds of photos from her life, some chosen by her. In it she speaks of her childhood, her adolescence, her middle age, the love of her life, her pride in her children and the wives they have taken.
On the subject of jewellery she tells how she sometimes wears a ruby horseshoe brooch. It is her lucky charm – a present her father gave her when she was officially named heir to the throne, aged 13.