from this:
to something weird around her legs
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Posted on 09/29/2022 6:00:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Only four of eight grandchildren will retain their royal titles.
Royalty in Europe is declining ever further as princes and princesses across the continent are losing their official statuses.
In a bid to protect the youngest royals from the pressures of public life, the Queen of Denmark has stripped four of her grandchildren of their royal titles.
Queen Magrethe, now Europe’s only reigning Queen and longest-serving monarch, has decided that the children of her youngest son, Prince Joachim, should be able to “shape their own existence” instead of having to perform the official duties required of them if they kept the titles.
Instead, Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena, aged between 10 and 23, will only be known as counts and countesses from next year.
“As of January 1 2023, the descendants of His Royal Highness Prince Joachim will only be able to use their titles of Count and Countess of Monpezat, their previous titles of Prince and Princess of Denmark ceasing to exist,” the palace said in a statement.
“With her decision, Her Majesty the Queen wants to create a framework for the four grandchildren, to a much greater degree, to be able to shape their own existence without being limited by the special considerations and obligations that a formal affiliation with the Royal House as an institution implies.”
Meanwhile, the Queen’s other four grandchildren—the children of Crown Prince Frederik—will retain their titles, although they won’t maintain all of the benefits of royalty; only the the eldest (and future king) Prince Christian will receive an appanage (a grant of land or revenue) when they come of age.
“The children feel excluded”
Not everyone is happy about it. The mother of Prince Joachim’s two eldest sons told Danish newspaper the Daily BT that she was “shocked” by the decision.
“This came out of the blue. The children feel excluded,” she said. “They can’t understand why their identity is being taken from them.”
“My children are sad. My kids don’t know which leg to stand on,” Prince Joachim told BT. “Why should their identity be removed? Why must they be punished in that way?”
It follows a trend of European royals seeking to slim down their monarchies; in 2019 the king of Sweden removed titles from five of his grandchildren, meaning that they did not have to perform official duties but would still be part of the royal family.
“The queen’s decision is in line with similar changes that other royal houses have carried out in recent years in different ways,” the Danish palace’s statement confirmed.
It is also widely reported that King Charles is expected to present a “slimmed down” monarchy in the near future with a potential plan for only seven working royals to remain.
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Charles is King
Well, I guess it’s Entenmann’s for them.
Not my king.
that I don’t know I really couldn’t see it all that clearly under her coat
Maybe the queen is getting tired of supporting her grifter relatives.
Well, first I’ve heard of this. If you watch it on loop it’s like an air bag inflating, isn’t it!
I guess Archie was a hell raiser in her stomach because quite a difference in photos from arriving to leaving events..especially that Jan 2019.Archie was not born until May of 2019..
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I think they should aspire to be like King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands - who was secretly a working airline pilot for KLM for over 20 years.
Perhaps trying to save the monarchy by keeping it small
What luck for Harry and Meghan! They can open a consultancy!
So, he can make the U.K. a Muslim country.
Did you also think Sarah Palin faked a pregancy?
I don’t know anything about Sarah Palin. Explain to me the photos I posted of Meghan. Try Jan 2019. Just explain one of them that I posted. Take your pick.
Clearly Archie’s birth announcement was signed by no one. Brits have sticky rules about babies being born of the body ..not a surrogate.
Where? The Magna Carta?
It is a centuries old rule..as is Catholics are deemed to be dead in the line of succession
Anyway, if the Brits believe they have this rule, wouldn't they enforce it?
I thought a lot of Freepers were against Free Enterprise now?
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