War is declared in the Danish royal family ! A few days after the official declaration of Queen Margrethe II announcing that the children of his youngest son, Joachim, would no longer have royal titles from January 1, 2023, he gave an interview on local television on the BT channel, in which he deplored his mother’s decision. She reacted officially on October 3 saying to herself “sorry“of the turn of events.”As a mother and grandmother, I underestimated how much my youngest son and his family are affected by this. It makes a big impression, and I’m sorry“, said the sovereign in an unpublished press release published by the royal house.
Accompanied by his wife Marie, the mother of his last two children Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10, he denounced a difficult situation for his family. According to Princess Marie, little Athena would have even been teased at school, by children who are already talking to him about it. “They come and laugh at Athena: ‘Are you not a princess anymore?’“.
Lamenting the fact that their children were “put in the spotlight without [qu’ils] were not made aware“, they regretted not having”had a lot of time to prepare them for the change and especially for the reaction of the people“. Indeed, according to them, if they had known of the Queen’s plans to strip the royal titles from their children, no one had told them that it would happen so quickly, everyone talking instead of the passage to the majority of the children.
“Complicated” relations between the two brothers
Repeating that they only got “five days to consider it“, they also admitted that they had not spoken since the beginning of this story either with Queen Margrethe, or with Frederik, Prince Joachim’s older brother and his wife Mary, explaining that their relationship is “complicated“. It must be said that the future queen was quick to take a stand for her mother-in-law!
In the tabloid Ekstra Bladetthe fifties of Australian origin had declared on Friday that “even though a change may seem extremely difficult and can really hurt, that doesn’t mean it’s not the right decision“. Asked by journalists about her own children (Christian, 16, Isabella, 15, Joséphine and Vincent, 11), she had kicked into touch, explaining that they “would review their credentials in due course“.
“I don’t know how they are going to do it but they, at least, will have some preparation time. We didn’t have that period, we“, replied Prince Joachim, bitter, who repeated and hammered that it disadvantaged his children. “The reality should be: whether you want to modernize or reduce the monarchy, it has to be done the right way. This time, we are still talking about children. That’s all that matters“.
His eldest son Nikolai, 23 (first born and a model, just like his brother Felix), also reacted to the story in Ekstra Bladet: “My whole family and I are of course very sad. We are, as my parents also said, in shock at this decision and the speed with which it was made. I am very confused as to why it has to happen like this“, did he declare.