Denmark’s monarch is under fire in the foreign press for lighting up around her grandchildren.

It is well-known that 75-year-old Queen Margrethe is a longtime smoker but recent pictures of her smoking around her grandchildren have created a stir outside of Denmark.

Last week, during the Royal Family's annual portrait at Graasten Palace, photographers snapped away and caught Queen Margrethe puffing on a cigarette. The photos were enough to cause a fuss in news sites like Britain's Daily Mail and Australia's News.com.au.

The foreign reports expressed concern over the effects of secondhand smoke on eight-year-old Princess Isabella and four-year-old Prince Vincent.

A spokeswoman for Astma-Allergi Danmark declined to weigh in directly on Queen Margrethe but said that it can send the wrong signal to smoke around children.

“It makes kids think it isn’t dangerous if they see one smoking. It sends a signal that it is okay. And one can worry that children will think that if their grandmother and grandfather smoke, that they can too,” Anne Holm Hansen told BT.

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