I'm personally relaxed about Nikolai answering questions - there's clearly been a lot going on behind the scenes, firstly with Joachim and Marie's move to France, and now this. Nikolai's obviously seen the backstage manoeuvring and at the end of the day, he's no longer a Prince of Denmark. As such he's now able to say how he feels about the situation; he doesn't represent the DRF anymore. If he's still talking about this in a year's time I'll agree it's time to move on, but the actual removal has only just happened.
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Well, you are absolutely right. Nikolai has said his mind, and whatever he says wont change a thing, he is a count now and that's it.
However, he is also a 23 year old adult man now. While QMII IMO should indeed have explained her decision to her adult grandsons, couldn't Nikolai, considering is misgivings about this, have called his grandmother? Or written a letter to her?
Has he ever called just to say hi? Dropped by for a cup of coffee? A relationship goes two ways, especially when you become an adult.
I know, I know, when you are in your late teens and in your twenties, you sometimes, often, forget that you also have a family.
Then one day some of them are gone and you realize you never really got to know them as an adult.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I doubt this situation would have gone this far has PH been around. Because he made sure he had a relationship with his family and not least his grandchildren.
I really don't follow this family constantly, so I don't know much about Nikolai and Felix. Since their titles have been reduced, what happens to their official charity works that Royals seem to do. I notice others will drop in during the years to see how things are doing. Does losing their higher title also mean that they have lost their prestigious positions on their works for their personal charities which seems to go along with titles. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject but as an American, I am really just curious on exactly what the ramifications will be on these lads by having their titles reduced. Will it affect their job at all? I thank anyone that could explain the different title change and if this change will harm their future.
That's the crux of the matter.
No, in pursuing a normal career their titles won't matter.
In Denmark, because everybody know who they are and that they have a large and influential network. In a day to day job, their skills and network is more important than their titles.
Outside DK it probably matters even less. Okay, it may be an interesting novelty to have a real life prince among your staff, and their network may be useful but it's their skills that really matters and what the bottom line is.
The problem for Nikolai is that he has been making a career where he is a face, because he is royal. He may be a good model, I'm not qualified to be the judge of that, but it sure doesn't detract being a prince!
I think that he may found that being a count, although still making him a novelty, is considerably less interesting than being a prince, not least in a very competitive business.
Apart from that, they have likely lost their diplomatic passports, which all DRF members have. After all, why should they have it? They is no longer royals and they are not doing any work for the DRF.
They will also have to work out a surname, I believe.
Right now Nikolai is His Excellency Nikolai etc., Greve of Monpezat. - Grev Nikolai is not a surname, nor is it a first name and Grev Monpezat is not a surname either. So my guess is that he will eventually become Nikolai Monpezat or Nikolai Frederiksborg. - Shouldn't be a problem, he can do that online.
