{"id":63523,"date":"2026-08-10T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/63523\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:23:14","slug":"in-photos-queen-margrethe-of-denmark-makes-a-low-key-appearance-at-a-market-in-the-south-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/63523\/","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: Queen Margrethe of Denmark Makes a Low-Key Appearance at a Market in the South of France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a serious health scare earlier this year, Queen Margrethe<\/a> is on vacation in the south of France. The former Danish queen, 86, who abdicated in 2024<\/a>, typically spends her summers at Ch\u00e2teau de Cayx. The castle, located near the city of Cahors in the south of France, was purchased by Queen Margrethe and her husband Prince Henrik in 1974. It is a private residence of the Queen and located near where her late husband grew up.<\/p>\n

As described by the royal family<\/a>, \u201cThrough the years, Ch\u00e2teau de Cayx has been the Royal Family\u2019s base in France. In Prince Henrik\u2019s lifetime, The Queen and Prince Henrik spent several weeks at the French vineyard ch\u00e2teau every summer, and Her Majesty has continued this tradition since Prince Henrik\u2019s death. Likewise, from when they were quite small, The Crown Prince [now King Frederik] and Prince Joachim have had a close connection with Ch\u00e2teau de Cayx, and this connection they have carried into their own families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Queen Margrethe visiting a market in Cahors.<\/p>\n

Queen Margrethe was spotted in a market in Cahors, near her French castle home. She used a cane as a mobility aid, and was joined by Annette de Scheel, her lady-in-waiting, along with men who looked to be members of her security team.<\/p>\n

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Queen Margrethe in the market.<\/p>\n

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The former queen was hospitalized earlier this year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rare public outing for Margrethe, who was hospitalized in May<\/a> for heart health concerns and again a few weeks later for a blood clot in her hip<\/a>. Her first official appearance following her hospitalization came in mid-June, when she attended a literary prize named for her late husband at Fredensborg Palace<\/a> in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read After a serious health scare earlier this year, Queen Margrethe is on vacation in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5470,4709,39369,99,5,8655,98,103,39368,30755,5469],"class_list":["post-63523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-collection-royal-family-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-cbd1447b-a36e-407d-8acd-a0a8c5139d64","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-france","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-queen-margrethe-of-denmark-in-the-south-of-france","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}