The late Grand Duke Jean has met and most likely spoken to Queen Margrethe during the funeral of Queen Fabiola in December 2014 in Brussels.
Found this photo from the Luxembourg state visit to Denmark in 1988. The Grand Duchess was of course a granddaughter of Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, but the Grand Duke, too, had a few drops of Danish blood in his veins. He was descended from Princess Charlotte of Denmark and her husband Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel - the parents-in-law of Christian IX.
The last time Queen Margrethe and Grand Duke Jean met was probably at the D-day anniversary in 2014 (second photo).
The Grand Duke's last public visit to Denmark was, I think, in 2002 for the funeral of his wife's cousin Count Flemming of Rosenborg. It is quite possible that he has paid a few more recent visits to Denmark in private capacity in order to see his sister, Countess Holstein-Ledreborg, who is now the only surviving child of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg.
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