Lights, Camera, Action!: A Film About Derf's "Wild Years" Will Soon Start Filming: Sportif!

 

Interesting forces at work in Denmark. The creative community has decided it is time - surely due to the unbreakable bonds of matrimony between Derf and his beloved MoreMore - to explore the years between Crown Prince Frederik's majority and his tears of pain joy at the altar while waiting for his ice cold bride to arrive at the Copenhagen Cathedral on 14 May 2004. What fun! These were the good years, the fun times, the era when little Freddles sowed his wild oats. The years of Katja and Bettina and Malou and Nina! The years of warm, buxom Danish cuddles! The years of the manly Sirius expedition to Greenland coursing through Freddie's veins! The years of sitting in with Led Zeppelin cover bands! Living in Paris, New York and Boston!

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Frederik. Frederik was a prince who lived in a castle! Frederik had a little brother to play with and a nanny who loved him. Frederik's mother was the queen. She was a good queen, but even though she loved Frederik, she was not a good mother. But none of the people knew that because they would not like her as much as queen if they knew she was not so nice to her little prince. The palace sent out lots of happy family photos to convince all the people in all the land that their queen loved her family more than her cigarettes. It worked! The people believed her! The queen loved her husband because he was from another land! Frederik was from the same land as his mother, so he knew she would not love him as much. But Little Frederik wanted his mother to love him very much. Because Frederik was a prince, all the people in all the land wanted to be nice to him. Frederik liked this very much. Soon, Frederik learned that attention was easier to get than love. As he got older, the people showed him attention with toys and cars and their daughters! Parts of Frederik would not be so little when the daughters came to play! Frederik did not have a care in the world! He went all over the world having fun. But Frederik got careless and wandered into a strange land. That day, a clever baba yaga vulture saw him from her tree perched in the yard of her Taswegian trailer. She put beer googles on him and disguised herself into a semi-beguiling foreign creature! Foreign! That will finally make Mama Mor love me forever! But something inside Frederik resisted. He knew that this Feral Cheryl with multiple piercings, no language skills, who could suck the paint off of the panel van she lived in was not good, not right. But he couldn't put his finger on it. So instead, he just kept sticking his other finger in it, because that felt good. One day, as Frederik lay sleeping in his palace, this Hobart hillbilly climbed up the palace walls and came in through an open window. For months, she wouldn't leave. Then Mama Mor found out! And she kicked out this horrible bogan! If only all the people in all the land knew! They would know that Frederik's mother really did love him! But then Frederik's brother was to divorce his wife, the popular foreign princess! Oh no! Frederik's mother was desperate! She knew the people needed a happy story! So she told the people that her son would be marrying the foreign redneck! They were happy, but confused! So was Frederik! He thought making his mother happy would be a good thing! But it wasn't! But Frederik's need for his mother's love was strong! But so was the ugly baba yaga's suction on his wang! So Frederik went along with his mother's plans! And 10 years, countless tears and a million bottles of whisky later we have to ask, was any of it worth it for little Frederik?

Article: Her og Nu

Now comes the film about Frederick's wild years

Christian Tafdrup will play the Crown Prince in the new movie

Crown Prince Frederik's life from when he was in a relationship with Nina Klinker Jørgensen in 2002 until he turned the next page with Mary Donaldson, will be the focus of the film "Frederik's Early Years." Christian Tafdrup both will direct and star in the film, which is supported financially by the Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film and TV 2.

"I cannot get into what people from the Crown Prince's life the film includes, or what events we are addressing, but it is clear that the crucial events and key people in his life are portrayed in the film (...) There is no talk about a revealing documentary report on Frederik's privacy. It is important for me to emphasise that this is a case of fiction based on factual events", says Christian Tafdrup to Politiken. "There is neither a glossy image portrait or a colourful gossipy movie. Our ambition is to portray the raw and realistic, not adventurous or glamorous."

It will primarily be about Frederik's difficulties in accepting his life as a royal - and heir to the throne. "It is well known that he would be king, and that the population to begin with does not consider him to be particularly suitable for it. So of course the film is about a successor to assume his task. But it is also a universal story about a young man who becomes an adult. For me it about a young man in his 20s, struggling with it, often struggling with what his 20s are: his identity and recognition from family and the outside world.However, there is no doubt that Tafdrup and the people behind the film have chosen a period of Frederik's life that has been very controversial. Among other things, during this time he was implicated with his then girlfriend Malou Aamund. In addition, he was in a wide range of circumstances - apart Malou Aamund and Nina Klinker Jorgensen, who was known as Hugo-host of TV 2's Eleva2ren, he formed also a couple with Maria Montell.Christian Tafdrup has not been in contact with the royal family in the process. And the royal family, according to Politiken, chosen not to comment on the upcoming movie."Frederik's Early Years" will be premiered in 2014.

Nina Klinker Jørgensen, high school girlfriend

 

Malou Aamund

 

 

 

 

Princess Xenia zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, granddaughter of Princess Margarita of Greece

 

Madeleine Bonde, Swedish noblewoman

 

 

 

Katja Storkholm

 

Mary van Schuyler Raiser, daughter of American Democrat fundraiser

Maria Montell

 

 

At Cayx with Peter and Caroline Heering before Caroline became a redhead

Bettina Odum

 

 

 

The "Wild Years" end with a thud:

 

 

 But then he manages a few more moments:

The Anti-Mary: A Profile of Frex Ex Malou Aamund, Former Minister and Now Top Business Executive

Sunday, 13 August 2012, Berlingske ran a profile of Malou Aamund, former model, former girlfriend to Crown Prince Frederik, former government minister, and now top manager at Microsoft and mother to three daughters. That Derf has dated such strong, beautiful, smart women should better prepare him for the day when he lifts himself up and takes charge of his own happiness and finds a better life with a wonderful Danish woman.

What an inadvertant shot at Mary, though. Berlingske is a pro-monarchy broadsheet with cooperation between the editors and the palace, not as blatantly as Billed Bladet, but still. Notice this line: "I don't have any pleaser gene, where I do something to ingratiate myself in different places. I am guided by my own beliefs and not afraid to go against the current." The Un-Mary, indeed! Careful, Danish media, the empress is not wearing any clothes!

Article: Berlingske

The Road To Malou Aamund's Career Peak

CEO Malou Aamund took a convoluted path to where she stands now. She has been brought up with a great sense of self-responsibility and has always done what she pleases.

She had just arrived in Paris. Alone and with a few hundred dollars in her pocket was the then 15-year-old Malou Aamund at the airport and waited for the head of the city's largest modeling agency that had hired her for a model job. But he never showed up.
She hitchhiked instead into town, into the Pigalle district, where the city's cheapest hotel rooms were side by side with sex shops. Staying in a room overlooking a neon sign with the words 'Dirty Dick' shining blue through the window, she began the adventure in the French metropolis.Next day she went to the fashion boss, who had promised her lodgings. In his apartment young models went alternately in and out of the door to his bedroom. And there were constant parties, which floated high with the jetset and cocaine.

"I remember I thought, what the hell am I doing here? But I was not really scared. I took a picture of his cocaine in the bathroom as a kind of evidence against him if he did not treat me or the other girls properly", says Malou Aamund and smiles.
Berlingske met her at Helene Badehotel in Tisvildeleje, where she came a lot in her childhood. This was before the hotel was fashionable, she emphasises. Then the old men sat and played bridge in the seaside hotel easily pierced wicker furniture, and meatballs were on the dinner menu.Tisvildeleje has for years been one of the few real oases of Malou Aamund in a life that has seen a growth in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution and then in cities like Kolding, Holte, Copenhagen and New York. Today she sits at a management job at Microsoft and at the age of 42 years ex-MP and mother of three girls, respectively, 8, 13 and 17 years, she has with her husband, Mikael Bertelsen, channel manager at Radio 24/7.

Strong support from parents

Most parents would probably have had major reservations about sending their 15-year-old daughter alone to Paris and into a wild environment of the fashion world. Malou Aamund upbringing was different. There were almost no rules, and she had as a teenager responsible for his own life and could do pretty much what she wanted.

The liberal mindset believe she is still on. She believes that free education has taken her places and given her experiences that have made that she's reached the point where she is today. A place where she likes to be.

"My parents pushed me away with plenty of support, confidence and a proper amount of love, and then I could even figure out the rest", says Malou Aamund.

She grew up with two parents who are very different in values ​​and outlook on life. The mother, artist Susanne Aamund went to meditation and took on spiritual journeys, when the chance arose.

"Because one day I came home from school, she had suddenly found out that she had to learn tap dance and then and there stepped out of the room. She is good at entertaining us and often pulled us into some other worlds than those one might see in a normal nuclear family", says Malou Aamund.

On the other side stood her father, business man and CEO Mr. Aamund for all other values ​​in the upbringing of her and her brother Martin. In Asger Aamund's world education equaled a minimum of rules and responsibility for own actions.

"When I was a teenager and had been messy in the kitchen without cleaning up after myself, he put all the dirty dishes could find under my duvet. When I got home to go to bed, put my feet in a day-old, dirty spaghetti casserole. Then I felt the consequences of not having cleaned up", says Malou Aamund about the time when she moved with her father after their parents' divorce, which she describes as extremely peaceful.

"It has been nice to have parents with different values, so it was not a wall of authority, I met and went up against. It has been more unpredictable and unusual because they contained a variety of things", she says.

Recognise themselves in the parents

Malou Aamund can recognise something of herself in both her father and mother, although it is reasonable to believe she is a daddy's girl, who went into business, as she puts it.

"I can be an accounting, uncompromising person who dares to take unpopular decisions that can be encountered in business and politics. At the same time, I have a curiosity about people and am very much a family man. I have cast myself into many adventures in my life, because there have been two poles in my life, to be consistent that I stay and thrive in what she says."

The words come slowly, but accurately. And Malou Aamund is clearly not afraid of awkward pauses in conversation when childhood should be remembered and described correctly. The great responsibility, as she got stabbed in the hands as a young man, she tries to pass on to her own children.

"I think it's a little matter whether my children, for example, cleans up in their rooms. There comes a point where there is so old, moldy sandwiches in there that they probably should clean up. They never learn if you are trying to indoctrinate in them", says Malou Aamund, stressing that it is not laissez-faire parenting.

"But you learn to first take responsibility when you feel the consequences of the choices you make. My children do not have as many rules as I think more on that a fundamental value that responsibility educates children in more than a large set of rules does. It is with great responsibility, they grow and move and mature as human beings", says Malou Aamund.

Although she strikes a blow for responsibility and the freedom that comes with it, she is aware that it is difficult to give her own children the freedom she had as a kid.

"I would never send my 15-year-old daughter to Paris almost without money. It's something completely different today. When my daughter is in town, she almost had to send a text message when she goes from one place to another. As a parent today, you prefer to have a GPS chip in your children if it is feasible", says Malou Aamund with a smile.

"My parents trusted me 100 percent then. It meant that I went to Paris on the way, but it was not because they were indifferent. I think then that you give a certain degree of paranoia on to its children today. And I think also that young people today are missing out on anything because everything was so over-controlled and monitored. For it is the funny, strange episodes I've been through that has helped shape me as a person. But it is probably impossible to give them the same upbringing. Unfortunately", she says.

Come far and wide as a young

The great freedom brought her around as a kid. After she graduated she packed suitcase and model of your dreams and traveled to New York where she came in the barn of one of the fashion world's biggest icons, Eileen Ford. It was in 1980s New York, where she had her time in the creative environments and met her first husband as a 18-year-old. She called home in the middle of the night and told her parents that she was married.

"My mom called me a transition to 'Dramalou' because she felt that there was always time in too many wild things around me. But both my mom and dad have always given me support. Almost no matter what I've done", says Malou Aamund.

The marriage lasted only a year and then she went home to Denmark for Malou thrived in the world she had been a part of. It was too superficial, and she needed to be stimulated intellectually.

"But it has been healthy for me to be sent out into the world in this way at such a young age and learn to figure things out themselves rather than be told what was right and wrong. I've made so many different things and been a part of very different environments. Everything from the alternative youth cultures in the teenage years of IT industry in the United States. The support and great responsibility my parents gave me has meant that I could shape my own values ​​and find my own way by trying a lot of things", says Malou Aamund.

Although she has travelled around most of her life, she has never felt that there was a standpoint lacking. And she's never been in doubt about how she would navigate the great responsibility which she was entrusted.

"I had support so that it could easily operate. I felt like someone who was 40 years old - quite in balance with their own values ​​and being able to handle anything in life. When I was in situations where I was alone in a strange place in a foreign country, I was never really afraid. I knew what I should do to handle them. And then I had it all the time so that they would not fucking run around corners with me. That was probably what got me to handle it that way. It was a healthy skepticism toward all people", says Malou Aamund.

Modern power woman

She has before been called a modern power-woman who can, will and do it all with a well-functioning family, adventures abroad, and a successful career at one time. She holds even talk about how to make career and family to stick together and seem to have cracked the code when she soberly describes his relationship with family versus career.

"People often ask me if I have not had to compromise a lot to get it all to hang together. But I have not. I've always been very conscious that family means everything to me, so therefore it has been easy to say no to such work 80 hours every week. I do not think it would be a win for my business anyway, so I will run myself down. I have cash to where my limitations are. I hear of many who have a bad conscience, both at work and at home. I've never had to. I have set some limits and they must respect the people", says Malou Aamund that will be allowed to do exactly what she thinks is best for herself and family.

When she chose to go into politics, she was greeted with head shaking from several colleagues who could not understand why she would abandon a promising career in business rather than go into a party as 'New Alliance'.

She did anyway and it sums up really well, what Malou Aamund stands for.

"I don't have any pleaser gene, where I do something to ingratiate myself in different places. I am guided by my own beliefs and not afraid to go against the current. It makes you take some decisions outside world can not always understand", says Malou Aamund.

Such a decision she took when she immediately changed from the ailing party New Alliance to go with the Liberal Party and was violently unpopular.

"But I have not regretted any of the decisions I have taken. They have all been the best at the moment. That's been most important."


Photo: Søren Bistrup

Happy 41st Birthday, Katja Storkholm, You Luscious Goddess

GAH! What is it with the Danish media?! Did they have to sign a contract with Lene Balleby or The McCann Group in blood to ensure that Mary's name will be brought up every time a discussion of a better human specimen is undertaken? Poor Katja. What a birthday present. What did she ever do to deserve this? She loved our Derfie, read the writing on the wall that Daisy didn't want her and Fred was too weak to stand up for her, got out, got on with her life, trained in conservation, got married, had a kid, established her own business. And this is what she has to endure? Comparisons to little Mary Donaldson and being just "the ex"? Saturday was your birthday, Katja. Hope it was a happy one and that Derfie was able to share a glass of champers with you before taking off for Sweden - unless you went with him as a birthday treat and to keep supporting the ol boy! A person can dream, no?

Article: BT

The Ex and Mary Are Similar

The strong gaze. The high cheekbones. The little narrow and slightly reserved smile. Just three little details that Crown Princess Mary has in common with her predecessor, model Katja Storkholm, who is now 41 years old.

And just now, when both women have reached a certain maturity and rounded the big 40, the images very clearly show that the similarity between them is striking. And perhaps with good reason.

Although it is many many years ago that Frederik was dating the beautiful former lingerie model, sources close to the crown prince made no secret of that of all his now ex-girlfriends, Katja Storkholm is the one who has meant the most to him. And not only because it was her who broke off the relationship.

Thus, it is reported that Frederick was actually down on his knees and proposed to Katja. Which is hardly an ill-considered gesture for a Crown Prince.

According to Trine Villemann's book '1015 Copenhagen K' it was Katja Storkholm who helped Frederik find his own footing as Crown Prince and was a huge support for him. Among other things, it was her who backed him when he wanted to implement his tough training in the Frogman Corps.

"It happened only because Katja was there and because she supported him," it says in the book where Villemann also called the pair "a real team."

"It should have been those two," she writes.

But the queen seemed to be opposed to the match. And finally, the pair then went their separate ways.

Katja Stockholm was subsequently married to three years younger lawyer and yachtsman Chresten Plinius at Frederiksborg Castle Chapel. Shortly after, the pretty model got pregnant and the couple had a son, Vitus.

In 2009, however, the marriage ended. And Katja Storkholm has since been a single mother and lives in Østerbro along with her son. She has trained as conservator and among other things, specialises in COBRA art.

"I am very diligent, but I also really prioritise my son. I'm his anchor, so that means more than work," says Katja Storkholm in an interview with Børsen.

Speaking about the Crown Prince doesn't phase her. It is water under the bridge for the 41-year-old beauty.

Who in God's name thinks these two women really look alike? One is goooooorgeous, sparkling, and alive; the other is simian, clay-like and dull-eyed.
 

Photos: Franne Voigt and Linda Henriksen

Countess Alexandra in Helsingør for UNICEF

This morning, Countess Alexandra of Frederiksborg was in the town of Helsinør, north of Copenhagen and home of Hamlet's fabled castle, to inaugurate the town as a UNICEF City. She was there alone, but joined by town officials, UNICEF officials, Frex Ex Maria Montell among other performers, and lots of schoolkids.