Backlash against Fred and Mary!

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary are immature, superficial and lacking understanding of the crisis that characterizes the rest of the world.

Politiken readers respond to Kjelk Koplev's article about Fred and Mary being immature and superficial.

Therefore, we must stick with Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik as long as possible, wrote contributor Kjeld Koplev in an article published yesterday in the wake of a poll showing that a majority of Danes want Margarethe to leave the throne in favour of her eldest son.

Koplev's posts have sent a lot of politiken.dk readers to their keyboards, and while some agree with Koplev, many others disagree, while others again open the discussion on whether or not Denmark should even have a royal family.

Frederik and Mary have continued to be big kids.

Mogens from Valby is one of the readers who agree with Kjeld Koplev:

"The royal couple do nothing more than go around in expensive clothes - fun with plenty of delicious food and drink - be transported around by a chauffeur in expensive cars and lots of tax free goods', he writes and is backed by Lillian A:

"I am a royalist, but Frederik and Mary have continued to be big kids, they do not take part in the country's population, or understand that there are many who lack the necessities of life," she writes.

And this lack of social commitment is echoed in several submissions. Here the Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Britain's Prince William are seen as better role models.

"Personally I prefer Mette-Marit's appearance ... down to earth, compassionate. Mary swings more and more up to be a style icon more than a princess who serves the people. Humility is missing," writes Inge Marie from Kolding.

Margarethe and Henrik are no better

But there are also those who do not believe the solution is to keep Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark's heads.

"Although I agree with the assessment of Frederik and Mary, there's not much else to say than that they have learned their habits from the Queen and the Prince - as true for virtue as they never showed any kind of public spirit," writes, for example, Carol E. from Støkkemarke, backed by Lone from Randers.

"Totally agree with your (Koplevs ed.) comments about the Crown Prince, but I find it hard to see that Henrik and Margrethe are much better, just because he can translate books, and she can draw and paint - how cool are these sovereigns???"

Should they move into Fælledparken in a residential tent with all 4 kids ...

40 working days a year

Kjeld Koplev writes among other things, that the crown prince "has repeatedly reiterated that he is very fond of life at home with family. He cultivates it so effectively that people who have more sense of it than I have figured out that the crown prince only works 40 days a year."

But this allegation is attacking, among other D. Pedersen from Farum.

"I understand well if Frederik would like more time with his children while they are quite small. Suggest mature reflection not to repeat his parents' pattern. He'll probably want to be more present. Drop the index finger."

Should they move into villa tent?

Finally there are the readers who have a more positive perception of the royal house's residents. Among other Lasse Overgaard from Copenhagen, who regard Crown Prince as a benefit for Denmark.

"I'm not big royalist. But I perceive the contrary, Crown Prince as much community involvement and in balance with what is happening in the world as well as in the small kingdom. I think frankly we're lucky to have such a pair, as we now have a royal family - in spite of fashion shoes and motorcycle!"

Also Sally Poulsen of Odense can't condone the crown prince couple's lifestyle.

"Now close the theater of a royal family! It is undemocratic and a relic from a bygone era."

Folke, Copenhagen

"It is possible that the Crown Prince is immature and so what? Lots of people are never adults. But to say that he has no depth, I think is totally wrong. The same goes for Mary. What should they do? Move down to a Copenhagen park in a residential tent with all 4 kids ... engage in alcohol and drug abuse, so they can really talk to others about their problems?" she asks.

Close the theatre!

The debate on the royal family's legitimacy will also be pulled forward by politiken.dk 's readers.

One of them is Jørgen Rasmussen of Aarhus:

"It should be obvious to everyone: A Royal House of Denmark is outworn, meaningless, anachronistic and a waste of money. To those who constantly claim that the Crown has looked impressive impact on export earnings, etc., etc., let us see one, just one fairly meaningful estimate for this!"

Margrethe 40: The Jubilee Portrait, Messaging in Oils!

Queen Margrethe, up front and centre, in irredescent, bright pink. Chiffon leaves at the hem of the dress ressemble the flames of fire of Hawaiian fire and volcano goddess Pele or the Roman fire goddess Gaia Caecilia. Fuck with me and deal with hot lava, baby.

Fred looks like a geriatric beagle, floppy skin pasty and diminished, eyes appearing barely recovered from a whisky and blondes bender. It doesn't help that his grey hair has been glossed over with black shoe polish! Nor does the furrow in his forehead spell calm acceptance of his destiny. Frex is firmly positioned behind the queen, NOT on her right, the symbolic placement of the next-in-line. Overwhelmed by his silly epaulets and too long pants legs, will Freddums be set free in favour of Joachim?

Christian looks like a confused mouth-breather and very Donaldson-like in his Teutonic hunting jacket. His foot is forward since he is running away (being pushed away?) from his destiny.



"Eat it, Dais! He loves me best, not you", says Mary.

Crown Prince Frederik and Mary are Immature and Superficial

Leave it to serious, republican broadsheet Politiken to call out the only two 40-somethings in Denmark who live without connection to their own generation. Despite university education and international family roots, both of these losers live in their own private Versailles, far, far removed from contented, socially involved, young parents that populate the rest of Denmark. They act like sans-coulottes, but have a disdain for their era and its political expectations on par with Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Is their Let Them Eat Cake train quickly arriving on the express tracks?

Politiken article by Kjeld Koplev

Am I the only one who thinks that it will be a huge disaster if Queen Margrethe prematurely left the throne to Crown Prince Frederik?

The Crown Prince is still an immature young man without depth and regrettable bilingual devoid of cultural and social understanding.

In many interviews he has repeatedly reiterated that he is very fond of life at home with family. It cultivates he so effectively that people who have more sense of it than I have figured out that the crown prince only works 40 days a year.

Not much for a young, hearty and healthy man. Neither has Crown Princess Mary grown to royal power. She swans around the seemingly superficial lives of needle-like high heels and an affable smile.

Despite the crisis and economic lean times she wanders - as emperor in the Hans Andersen's fairy tale - constantly into fashion stores and come out with larger and more expensive dresses to the delight of the royal press photographers end representatives.

I have nowhere found evidence that the royal couple, as opposed to the Norwegian and the British Crown Princes, has taken part in or expressed understanding for our society's outcasts or endangered.

Their Norwegian counterparts are constantly out in social errands. British Prince William speaks to the homeless issue. He even slept solidarity with them one night in London.

But for our crown prince, there are homeless people in Denmark? Neither Frederik or Mary expresses understanding for the crisis that rages over Europe. When William married his Kate in April last year, they declined wedding gifts for themselves. Englishmen were instead encouraged instead to send money to aid agencies.

Mary and Frederik's wedding gifts filled three floors at Amalienborg.

If we are to have a royal family in Denmark, it is important to keep as long as possible, to Margarethe and Henrik.

The Queen even at a very young age took part in archaeological excavations, she has always drawn and painted, and we've seen her crawl around on the floor in a pair of simple work pants.

And we can smile at Prince Henrik's Danish, but he translates and writes both books and poems. All the qualities we find in the Queen and Prince Henrik, we miss at Frederik and Mary.

It requires culture, depth, and social understanding to become replacements in a modern monarchy. Family idyll, parties and fine clothes do not.

Margrethe 40: "I have not made it about myself"

"...unlike my daughter-in-law, Mary Boganson!"



Beautifully spoken in four languages, Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark welcomes visiting journalists on the occasion of her 40 years on the throne in the first video. Subtext: I will be the last articulate and multi-lingual monarch. Side note: her accent in each language is gorgeous! Her French is especially impressive. The video of the press conference is in the link below.

TV2 interviews Daisy.

Never had a plan

Margarethe explains that she considers the task as a ruler to be a task that you have until you die.

"It is in itself in the position you have. When the old king dies, becomes the new ruler. It is required that you keep for life. It is an obligation that I feel very comfortable with."

("Deal with it, Frex!")

Advice to the young Margarethe

If Margarethe could give some advice to the young woman who became queen in 1972 - or perhaps to his son to take over from her - it would sound like this:

"You must go into it fully and completely with everything you have. Year round and throughout your life with the confidence that you could handle it."

(She does not specifically address Freddles as her heir. Joachim, in waiting?)

Not all friends living large and beautiful

The queen denies that she should be without knowledge of general Danish life.

"I know more about it than people actually think I know. It is not something to exhibit, for then it's not common. I definitely know people who do not live large and beautiful."

(She is not a snob like Mary Donaldson who avoids stinky peasants as much as possible.)

Margarethe: I do not use a mobile phone

The Queen laughs when asked if she really does without a mobile phone or the internet.

"It's very peacefully done, and I use the phone when necessary. I feel fine to be without a cell phone. I like things the way I have them, thanks!"

(She will not be parading an iPhone on official engagements like materialists Mary and Fred.)

Living in the moment

Margarethe explains that the best moment in her time as a ruler is now; it's because she tries to live in the moment.

"I have it in that I was happy for the time in which I lived. I have lived in the moment."

(Not planning any Looker Me! Tours to the US or Australia any time soon.)

Politiken exposes Crown Princess Mary of Denmark for being a vacuous spendthrift

Pure. Gold.



They take Fred down, too, but in this very revealing political cartoon, there is one over-riding theme: Crown Princess Mary Donaldson of Denmark is a distraction and detriment to the health and welfare of the continuity of the monarchy, as embodied in her husband, Crown Prince Frederik. The caption under the cartoon asks, "Are Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary superficial and oblivious to the crisis that the whole world is experiencing?"

Surrounded by portraits of Denmark's most spendthrift king, Christian IV, the royal couple are seen lounging in an overstuffed chair covered with a loud and exclusive crown logo (reminiscent of the loud and obnoxious double-barfing-antlers logo that Derf and Yrma have printed on virtually everything, including environmentally-insensitive plastic shopping bags), with Mary showing off her expensive, extraneous and repetitive luxury shoe purchases, while reclining in the chair in an almost sexy pose (this most unsexy woman gets most excited by expressions of materialism - take that, Taroona!), skirt petticoats up à la Toulouse-Lautrec's can-can girls (an earlier incarnation of the modern showgirl), fishing for compliments from her drunk husband using a mix of Danish and English ("and these are nice and festive, too, eh?" - the same question every time for the same shoe!). Frederik is not portrayed as a spendthrift person, but as the stunted, immature, emasculated man that he has allowed his wife to make him. In the cartoon, he doesn't reprimand his wife's purchases, but instead chooses to humour Mary by agreeing with and reinforcing her emptiness ("Yeah, veeeeery elegant, expensive and festive!" - at least he is shown as calling out the expensive part), while Fred's desparately desired - and far too political - Olympic rings are hung up on the wall, out of use, except for the black ring - the one that represents the African people - which is notably ignored on the floor. Ouch! A very scathing rebuttal to Madam La Boganista's Marie-Antoinette-like attempts to bring insincere smiles and expensive cameras to the poverty-striken natives under the guise of helping feed and empower Africans, while staying in Addis Ababa's only 5-star, water-wasting, luxury hotel. The black ring is on the floor because Mary keeps Fred's back turned from it; it is more important to indulge Madam instead of doing his duty. Oh, Fred, you're such a sucker! Not a nice place to be, but one that can be rectified, if he and his supporters ever find the strength and will. Was the escapade in Greenland with Mummy all for naught?

A note about Kong Christian IV: this is the monarch most responsible for the glorious built environment and patrimony of Denmark. No 'bout a doubt it. Danes are aware of his enormous, lasting contributions to the aesthetics and cultural life of the nation. However, what often gets lost is how this king threw Denmark to the brink of financial collapse and misery in order to pay for the architectural and cultural delights that inspire today's Danes and visitors to the country. He never met a war he didn't like. It is a very pointed political commentary to link Mary 'weekly orchids delivery' Donaldson to Christian IV: both had/have the clear disdain for the money that is freely given to them from the very high taxes that are paid by the Danish people.

However, the cartoon seems to be implying that Christian IV's reign was much more fruitful than Derf and Mary's would be: Christian was required to bow to the pressure of the nobility who opposed his involvement in war, and the king was additionally successful in increasing trade and shipping. Mary, at least, doesn't seem the least bit interested in cultural pursuits; never in her time in Australia or in Denmark before the ruby ring, did Miss Donaldson show any inkling of curiosity about the soulful pursuits of art and music, nor the more cerebral ones of history and science. Never did her plastic shoe or blue Nike free-with-purchase bag cross the threshold of a museum, gallery or concert hall. King Christian was ambitious and intelligent, and bemoaned the too few philosophers in Denmark. Mary only seems to bemoan the lack of Jimmy Choos.

**For wonderful, historical fiction based on King Christian IV, please refer to Music and Silence by Rose Tremain, wherein the king consoles himself in music, much like Crown Prince Frederik's mélomane grandfather, King Frederik IX. Derf dropped his piano lessons.

Royal Danish Jewels Documentary Slays Mary!

Is Crown Princess Mary of Denmark going down? Not only was the wonky eye on display prominently, but this documentary seems to have been created under the guise of preparing the Danish public for Mary's release from their kroner-supported clutches! The McCann Group (The Mary Fund's PR agent), Markson Sparks nor Nina Fudala saw this baby coming!! Even speaking in her native English, Mary was diminished in the most delicious, if slightly passive-aggressive way. The DRF has given her enough golden rope, and she proceeds to duly hang herself with it! What was the conversation in the inner sanctum of Amalienborg, "hey, let's just set up a camera on Mary and let it roll, she'll do herself in! The queen is game, of course, and we'll ask for a couple of other royals to be interviewed just to throw Mary off and not make this whole thing look suspicious." Well done, gray men!!

Video: DR documentary "The Royal Jewels Through the Generations - Part One", aka "We're Done with Mary Donaldson!"

Normally, JJ Films (owned by the father of Countess Alexandra's husband Martin Jørgensen) produces the royal family's documentaries, but this one was produced by Egmont Films. Egmont is the surname of former girlfriends of both Prince Joachim and Prince Nikolaos. Ownership and control of the contents of the film remain, therefore, "in the family". Recall, dear readers, that the Danish merchant class, by and large just as with the nobility, stands firmly by their royal family and does the "dirty work" against the usurpers and arrivistes who invade their rank. **cough** Donaldsons **cough**

High on having just completed planning for the 2011 Looker Me! Tour to Australia under the false guise of sustainability, Mary was in full cheeky "dignified actress" mode on film, picking up where she left off after the Victorian train advert, the Marymentary and the "Kongehuset Indefra" docu. However, contrast Mary's pride at thinking herself worthy of being the ultimate official porter of such illustrious jewels with the file footage interspersed by the editors to underscore their naughty points, including the public one that these are precious, beautiful and historic pieces of jewellery and the subconscious one that one Miss Mary Boganson, daughter of Professor John "Ad Infinitum" Sluuuuurrrrpppson, is not a worthy or dignified bearer of such priceless heirlooms.

Egmont Films don't make us wait, either! The opening footage is of Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Donaldson's wedding. In the build up to the bride and groom actually saying ja before receiving accolades from the Danish public, the editors chose to intertwine the tears Freddles shed well before Mary and her father entered the church, and footage of the bride as a cold, emotionless, white corpse, eyes like bullets focused solely on the vulnerable deer in gold epaulets at the altar. Why on earth would the producers choose this particular excerpt from "happy wedding day" film at an occasion when the entire Danish nobility was decked out as never before in their family diamonds and other jewels? The footage they chose was from the most strange and depressing part of the entire service! Why not delight viewers with footage of European royals and Danish aristos decked out in all their sparklies as they paraded past the crowds? Is this not a film on the royal jools of one of Europe's monarchies which underscores the fascinating result of the itineraries of diamonds due to inter-familial, royal marriages? This, my dears, is another subtext: the Donaldsons did not have the dough or family history to provide their meal ticket daughter with any important jewellery (unlike Princess Marie of Denmark or the Duchess of Cambridge).

With this juicy start to the documentary, we were off to the races! During the personal interviews, Mary was quite horribly made up with heavy, theatre maquillage including a strange violet-blue eyeshadow (did they convince her that she would be evocative of Elizabeth Taylor? What a hoot!) that accentuated the wonky eye, reminded you of the Starmakers video colour pallette, as well as underscore the mask-like look the lady subscribes to, all while surely calling attention to the sapphire and diamond brooch that Mary received from Daisy for Christian's baptism, badly placed on a pleated dress. The overall effect was of a final interview with a fallen, C-grade Hollywood actress along the lines of Zsa Zsa Gabor or Jane Russell, in other words, a woman whose face is hard and stuck and doesn't breathe due to pore-clogging foundation and has never been used to either natural daylight or a relaxed constitution.

Mary helps out the grey men by talking with assurance and a total lack of humility about "her" jewels and how they are "mine" and all sorts of other ME ME ME language. She is proud of the reconfiguration of Queen Ingrid's ruby parure which is nothing but a wall of diamonds now (you can almost see Mary's brain imagining herself wearing them through the Salamanca markets - "take that, all you dirty peasants!"). Queen Ingrid "built up" the tiara from the light, wreath-like hair ornaments they originally were, and the piece had depth, charm and a sense of movement and central ascent, due to the multi-planar position of the ivy leaves. Only the ham-fisted, unartistic and unstylish eye of Mary Donaldson could ruin the piece by cutting out the jewel's personality, buttressing it with the gloss of more shiny stuff, and parading it out and about as if it were something special to be seen in this state - sort of exactly what she's done to poor Derf!

From the humourous and horrid pronunciation of lineage ("line age" - showing too much obsession with skin elasticity, Mary!) to the gleam in her eye and saliva in the corner of her Sluuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppson mouth when discussing the crown jewels, this documentary is entertaining and stomach-turning. Watching a narcissist self-flagellate right before the cameras is disturbing, but no clearer warning could be given the Danes: stop the monster in her tracks or you will soon see your ruby and diamond patrimony in the multiple ear piercings of several gargoyle in-laws!

Yrma La Douche