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Fortunately there is not even a whisper of decommissioning Dannebrog. Anyone suggesting that would commit a political own goal, she is a great crowd-pleaser and a beautiful ambassador for Denmark. - Apart from being very practical. No need to find accommodation for FX&QM and entourage. No need...

A state visit is of course not just for fun and King Frederik's visit to the Marine base wasn't just to remember old days. Denmark and Sweden has today published an agreement in regards to co-coordinating and standardization of weapons and equipment for the armies. Including joint purchases of...

Additional: Table decoration: https://eu-img-cdn.livecenter.com/lc-images-2021/lcimg-564d2409-393d-4bba-b6ba-8a73c50b215b.jpeg Notice the courtier standing behind Queen Mary. His uniform is from around 1780, judging from his hat. This hat is the ancestor of the chakot, the tall stovepipe like...

Then I shall oblige you with more uniforms. First though. What a beautiful sight! What a magnificent chalup. https://alltomkungligt.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/danska-statsbesoket-article11.jpg https://alltomkungligt.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/danska-statsbesoket-article6.jpg Notice the...

A three piece attire, just like a double-breasted suit is always stylish. However, King Frederik, where is your handkerchief? Where are your flashy cuff-links? And a bright red tie would really have nailed it.

I can't resists posting to this one. Hope I'm not off topic again... - The hat King Frederik is wearing stems back to the last half of the Napoleonic wars, where the naval officers stopped using the tricorne hat and switched to one having so to speak two corners only. Officers up to captains...

Then we shall graciously disagree on our views of the remarkable Herman Lindqvist. Two things though: A teacher is a teacher. A position of trust. Whether his pupils are royals or whether they like me are akin to but a speck of dust on Lindqvist's sleeve. I don't personally adhere much to the...

Then he could have kept his big mouth shut. I don't think it's very professional for a teacher to say anything about his pupils, even many years later. And if he has to say anything, don't be negative. After all no one forced him at gunpoint to say a word, right? Both Madeleine and CP are still...

Which is as it should be. If the CP is in the country and available, he automatically becomes Regent when the Monarch is abroad or indisposed.

Because Madeleine (and Victoria?) told him her opinion about Lindqvist? Because Victoria, being more dutiful and realizing she needed this lecture, grit her teeth and endured the lectures? Or alternatively Victoria and Lindqvist actually clicked? - Or the good Lindqvist sucked up to Victoria? -...

That was IMO a very odd interview! Obviously the venerable (at least in his own eyes) Lindqvist hasn't got a high opinion about neither Madeleine nor CP. (I suspect they didn't like him or didn't like listening to him.) Anyway, the rule about if you haven't got something nice to say about...

Sounds very plausible to me. Because that means she is a minimum of 5-6 hours sailing from Stockholm. (..)

Well, Dannebrog does about 12-13 knots/h = about 20 km. And if we say there is about 750 km from Helsingør to Stockholm it should take her about 33 hours. Normally Dannebrog will be escorted by a warship when she leaves Danish waters but as the Swedish coast is fairly free from pirates, she'll...

I see. It isn't because the MPs are pretty strict about the conduct of other MPs and in particular ministers and lifting of immunity and putting MPs before a Rigsret = a Court of the Realm which is presided by Supreme Court judges and it happens not infrequently that MPs are sentenced either by...

I suppose you are thinking about the government ordering someone to be murdered or committing murders themselves? Well, it's still illegal to kill someone, it will of course be up to the courts to decide whether you are to be punished for killing someone or not, like in self defense. It is also...

It's according to §57 in the Constitution. It protects all the members of the Parliament (also the parliaments on the Faeroe Islands and Greenland) from being arrested and/or prosecution. The purpose is two-fold: A) To protect the MPs from being arrested or prosecuted for saying something. Which...

That's a debate I think I know too little about to go further into. I will instead point out that MPs in DK also all have immunity.

Andreas Mogensen is a very likable person. He is also a rare breed in the sense that each time he opens his mouth something intelligent comes out.

Mainly QMII I suppose until she is no longer physically capable. Perhaps other members of the DRF will drop by from time to time. Mainly J&M I guess. But I think it will be sold in a few years, because it's not my impression that FX&QM are fond of the place. An option could be for J&M to buy or...

I think they'll share Gråsten. But there might be a slight change when QMII is in residence. It may very well be the Slesvigske Fodregiment = the Schleswigan Regiment of Foot, who will provide the guards when QMII is there. To be relieved by the Royal Lifeguard regiment when the Regent Couple is...

It's far from unusual the DRF fly by helicopter to a discreet location and board Dannebrog from there, so that the clock will be 10.00 when Dannebrog arrives in Stockholm. - (The wonderful Søren Haslund Christensen once succinctly pointed out that clock is always 10.00 when Dannebrog arrive...

As I understand it they often use (And will use?) Kancellihuset at Fredensborg as a weekend retreat. They pretty early on gave up using the place as a residence outside the school holidays, because it's an hour or so by car to school/high school/office - in rush hour traffic, both ways. The...

The DRF indeed has immunity. It's up to the monarch to either rescind the immunity in specific cases or impose sanctions himself (In regards to his family King Frederik can actually be jury and judge, though I know of no cases where it has happened.) or ultimately the Parliament can step in. The...

Sometimes I truly despair! Why does the DRF keep doing stupid things like this?!? The law on privacy, just like every other law in DK, can be broken "if it serves a higher purpose". - Like you kicking down a door to an apartment in a burning building in order to alert and rescue people living...

I believe we have fought some 31 recorded wars. About two for every generation for several hundred years. To that comes skirmishes and undeclared wars and of course raids. The last one being fought in 1814. Sweden and DK at the time was on different sides during the latter part of the Napoleonic...