Queen Mary & Queen kate

Both Mary and Kate receive the wonderful news, in a week of abdications in Denmark and the UK

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For the first time in history, two royals – Duchess Kate and our very own Princess Mary – look set to become queens at the same time.

In a sensational new twist, Queen Elizabeth, 91, and Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, 77, are tipped to hand power down to the adored royal mums as both reigning monarchs face a wave of unprecedented crises.

Queen Margrethe has already temporarily handed over power to Mary’s husband Prince Fred after her husband, Henrik, gave a ‘humiliating’ interview that experts say could lead to divorce.

Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth is reportedly ‘weeks away’ from announcing plans to have Prince William and Kate take over all her official palace duties.

‘This is a major breakthrough in both royal families,’ a European royal historian tells New Idea.

‘We’ve never seen two abdications in two of Europe’s biggest royal families at the same time, and then seen two popular young royal couples take the throne like this.

‘This is absolutely a royal first – our children will be talking about how Queen Mary and Queen Kate rose to power at the same time for centuries to come.’