Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, who stunned her country by abdicating earlier this year, has been discharged from a hospital after a fall earlier this week caused “damage around the neck vertebrae as well as a fracture of the left hand,

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II who stunningly abdicated earlier this year, has been admitted to a hospital after falling in her home

Denmark ’s Queen Margrethe II has been taken to hospital after falling in her home. The 84-year-old became the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years when she stunningly relinquished the throne to her son Crown Prince Frederik earlier this year.

Margrethe was admitted late Wednesday to the university hospital in Copenhagen for observation after falling in the evening at Fredensborg Castle, north of the Danish capital. The royal household said in a statement that the mother of King Frederik X was "in good spirits and is doing well” but "will,