Muhler, you are one of the main reasons I joined this forum - you have such extensive knowledge along with wit - invaluable I do believe. Thank you for all the insights, laughter, chuckles and pleasure you have brought to this member.
Muhler, you are one of the main reasons I joined this forum - you have such extensive knowledge along with wit - invaluable I do believe. Thank you for all the insights, laughter, chuckles and pleasure you have brought to this member.
It's interesting that Prince Daniel should be mentioned. He is going to set a standard for prince consorts in the future. The heirs of Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, Norway and Japan are all female. Although Japan will have to change their constitution for females to inherit the throne.
Japan is not going to change its constitution to allow female succession.
I hope Henrik doesn't develop a serius dementia.
Should he be so unlucky I hope he is not banished or locked away. The DRF could afford individual carers to accompany him on his adventures. At a risk of being embarrassing, Wacky Grandpas can offer a relaxed and alternate view of the World. Eccentricity offers refief from predictability. A large Shepherd is a positive model.
Don't know if this is the right thread to ask this but how does PH get on with CP Frederik?
Nor do I, it's a horrible thing! Not so much for the one who has dementia - they are in their own world. But because it's so painful for the relatives.
Alzheimer at least necessitate at some point that the patient is kept under control.
There are various ways and stages. Some cases use a language that would make even the most hardened sailor blush. Some become aggressive, verbally and physically. Others begin to expose themselves. At some point some begin to yell - for hours!
Such behavior would naturally be an embarrassment for the DRF, should it happen in public, like him going out on Amalienborg Square. But first and foremost it's not something PH would want to be remembered for! He's a very proud man.
They have by all accounts a very loving relationship. - As long as Frederik remember that he is the son and PH is the father and the patron!
Whether they are close, as in talking about personal matters with each other? That's a question I'd like to know the answer to as well.
The DK press follow PH these days, now that he has retired, and this article would normally belong in another thread but because of one particular detail, I've decided to put it here.
Henrik blev tituleret som konge - og bestilte mærkværdig figur af sig selv - Royale | www.bt.dk
PH visited the shop of artisan and artist Marco Giuseppe Ferrigno, in Naples.
Here he commissioned a figure of himself carved in wood, where he is a shepherd. The figure will be 40 centimeters high.
He also bought a number of figures for a nativity scene - they are around 20 cm high.
Ferrigno says about PH: "He was very open, very democratic in the best definition of the word. And we were all to take pictures with him. He seems like a very kind/friendly person. When you talk about regents, you often thing they are reserved but he was very amiable".
PH was presented and apparently addressed as king. Because Ferrigno afterwards wrote on Facebook that he had been visited by the Danish king.
Ferrigno explains: "It was the interpreter who said it. I didn't know his title was Prince".
Well, whether we like it or not, PH has arguably had a number cases of poor judgement within the past few years.
Combined with the fact that officially retiring is virtually unheard of in the DRF, and for that matter in other royal families, that will necessarily lead to speculations and debate.
And let me make one thing clear: If PH has retired due to feeling old, that may be not be the best PR-move, because he is by no means showered with sympathy in the press and on the street.
Fair enough that he can't go on state visits anymore, they are strenuous.
But if PH is seen traveling all over the world and go hunting and what not, while at the same time he's too old to accompany QMII to an event then he is going to get some heat. - That he also receive the same amount in apanage, now that his staff has less to do, is not particularly easy to justify as well.
It's peanuts but still annoying, because the rest of the DRF receive the same amount as before - to cover for PH.
If, repeat if, his staff is cut down. Then it will be seen as he is pocketing more of his apanage - which is mainly supposed to cover expenses - and then it becomes a PR-disaster for PH!
So if PH is not suffering from something other than growing older, then IMO he is behaving like a spoiled child and I think he is letting down his wife as well.
However, it fits well with my impression of PH's personality: Me and my needs first - naturally.
Nor do I, it's a horrible thing! Not so much for the one who has dementia - they are in their own world. But because it's so painful for the relatives.
Alzheimer at least necessitate at some point that the patient is kept under control.
There are various ways and stages. Some cases use a language that would make even the most hardened sailor blush. Some become aggressive, verbally and physically. Others begin to expose themselves. At some point some begin to yell - for hours!
Such behavior would naturally be an embarrassment for the DRF, should it happen in public, like him going out on Amalienborg Square. But first and foremost it's not something PH would want to be remembered for! He's a very proud man.
They have by all accounts a very loving relationship. - As long as Frederik remember that he is the son and PH is the father and the patron!
Whether they are close, as in talking about personal matters with each other? That's a question I'd like to know the answer to as well.
Thanks Muhler
You have to wonder what will happen if Frederik ascends the throne in PH's lifetime....
Thanks Muhler
You have to wonder what will happen if Frederik ascends the throne in PH's lifetime....
Absolutely nothing would happen. The Prince has always been a visibly supportive and loving father, and in such an event I'm sure he would continue to be just that. Many tend to forget that in the event that someone assumes the Scandinavian and Commonwealth thrones, a parent has to pass away. That makes it a somber event, and the parent that remains would be twice as supportive of their child, who not only is assuming the most important and demanding of roles, but is also doing it during great sorrow at the personal loss they would have just experienced.
Many things can be said about this retirement event, and I would echo many of them myself. To drag in factors such as Prince Henriks job as a father hovewer, is both unfair and a derailment of the issue itself; his call to let his wife fulfill the role as head of state alone, without the visible support of her living spouse. In my book, that is quite unheard of, and up until now, in royal life, something that simply would not be done.
Maybe King Frederik and the parliament decides to give P H the title "His Majesty The King Father" and place him above King Frederik X in the hierarchy........and all of a sudden Henriks willingness to work returens and he starts to appear anywhere and everywhere...:-D
No ofcourse that won't happen. If Henrik is alive when Denmark have a King Frederik X and Queen Mary he will likely retire to 500 %. Ofcourse he would support and advice Frederik and Mary........in private life inside the walls of Fredensborg Palace but he will never turn up as nr 3 in rank to an official event. I think his current "90 % retirement" is a part of a such plan to avoid a reprise of 2002. Then Henrik can choose what he wants to attend and not, without feeling that he has to be there.
However, it fits well with my impression of PH's personality: Me and my needs first - naturally.
We haven't ever shot at each other...have we? (Though perhaps you might have been inclined to do so after a certain underarm bowling incident I remember.)