Indeed, married for the first time with a Sino-Austrian banker, Alexandra Manley, he had two sons, Nikolai and Felix (23 and 20), both models. Divorced, he had met the Frenchwoman Marie Cavallier whom he married in May 2008 before the birth of two new children, Henrik (13) and Athena (10 and a half years).
Four children who have not really understood this difference in treatment between them and their cousins (Christian, 16, Isabella, 15, Vincent and Josephine, 11), the children of Crown Prince Frederik, who will remain princes and princesses. “I can tell my kids are upsetentrusted their father a few hours later to another local media. They don’t really know which foot to dance on. What they must be thinking. Why was their identity taken away from them like this? Why should they be punished in this way?“.
Strong words for this dad who repeated that he was “had given five days to warn [ses] children that their identity was going to be taken away from them“. “I am so, so sad to see them so misunderstood of what is happening above their heads“, he recounted.
The royal household, meanwhile, countered that the decision was actually made for the happiness of the four children. “With this decision, Her Majesty would like to allow his 4 grandchildren to live their lives without having to consider the formal stakes of the Danish crown and what the institution entails“, explains the press release, which specifies that many neighboring royal families have done the same, in particular in Sweden three years ago.