As I posted when this first broke before, Frederik's recklessness in putting himself at risk, with ZERO security for a time, a future King, IN a foreign Country, no less, is simply astounding. In these increasingly dangerous and unstable times. Man, can you imagine if he had been kidnapped ?
The Video doesn't lie. He IS solo, WAITING to get picked up. And the leg -foot signal is comedy gold. So he could be identified, I'm guessing ?
Why didn't Frederik CALL from inside, then stand by window to await the car ?
I wonder who is hurt the most with trust broken more ? QMll, that her 55 year old Son and Heir displayed such appallingly bad judgement and reckless behavior ? Or Princess Mary, again such utter carelessness and irresponsible actions ? Frederik displayed zero thought for ANY implications, and yes, the "optics" or repercussions. To his Wife, Family or his Position.
Well, he has to face them now.
Give me a break, the whole thing seems preposterous, couldn't make it up. Like something out a a parody skit, like the UK TVShow, The Windsors.
No one would have cared about them going to The Exhibit, Dinner, or seeing a Flamenco Dancers Show. It is what happened next that blew it open.
Yeah, yeah, easy now.
Frederik won't be shipped off to Christiansø to face oblivion there.
AFAIK he flew by private jet to Spain, that's what the Spanish press said, right?
And he did not slip out of DK without knowing about or there would have been a nation wide lockdown. (Such a lockdown has happened before.)
It is also a well known secret that he from time to time move about in DK (where he is among the most wellknown persons at all) without PET officers.
And who knows him in Spain? Even the pap had to check with a paper, before even finding out who Frederik was.
A person with bad intentions would first have to spot Frederik, then ID him before even contemplating what to do and how. I doubt would-be kidnappers and assassins roam the streets of Madrid in the hope of finding someone to harm. I also imagine the streets of Madrid to be pretty safe not least in a neighborhood where Miss Casanova lives.
Anyway, someone within PET would have made the assessment that it was relatively low risk for Frederik to move about solo in Madrid.
I think the obvious answer for Frederik standing on the street alone was that he had arranged for the car to pick him up at 08:30, so he just went down. And when the car wasn't there, he called: Where are you? And then waited on the street rather then walking inside again.
The car came and he was driven away.
Should he had brought security with him? IMO yes. But he didn't. And I wonder if such low-key behavior by royals aren't more common than we would normally think.
Anyway, as far as I understand there wasn't anything new in this much awaited video shown on TV?
No concrete evidence of adultery. Only insinuations and perhaps even wishful thinking, I suspect.
Must be pretty slow news in Spain these days.
The DK press have watched the video as well and it's nowhere near headline news here. Nor is it the talk of the town. What people talk about is a politician who got kicked out by his party and the concerns about the ground being saturated by rain.
Mary evidently hasn't run off to Australia to contemplate her marriage, nor are there reports that she isn't living at Amalienborg.
No rumors about a separation or upcoming divorce.
- Oh well, there is always next year.
Quite disturbingly though when I look around on comments here and there there
are actually people who can barely hide their wish for M&F's marriage being on the rocks or even better, end!
A most perplexing attitude, I dare say.
Fortunately, I know we won't see anything like that here on TRF. ?