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Westminster Abbey of Denmark. It is the burial-place of the Danish Royal Family: thirty-three Kings and many Queens rest in it. A beautiful alabaster tomb marks the resting-place of Queen Margrethe, the famous Queen who united the three Crowns--Norway, Sweden, and Denmark--and was ever ambitious for the glory and development of these countries. She ruled with wisdom and wonderful diplomacy, and was the most powerful Queen Denmark ever had. She has been called the
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Semiramis of the North. Though the three crowns are still on the shield of Denmark, the other two kingdoms were lost to her in the sixteenth century. Queen Margrethe was the daughter of Valdemar IV., known as
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Atterdag, because of his favourite proverb:
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I Morgen er der atter en Dag. [11] This powerful monarch kept his subjects in such incessant turmoil by his numerous wars for acquiring territory