Ka-Ching!: Danish Royals Again Take a Pay Raise In The Midst of National Austerity: Scroo the Peasants!

 

"HA HA!"

Ekstra Bladet is a scuzzy magazine, but when they talk about the royals, this is what they do best: deal with the facts of number crunching.

Here's the breakdown: they're all getting a tiny raise. Daisy gets almost $36,000 US. The rest of the family splits the remaining 100,000 kroner or nearly $18,000 US between themselves. That is, Fred, Joachim and Alex. Fred gets the lion's share of that remaining 100,000 kroner.

None of them should be receiving any raises as long as the country is experiencing cuts to social services and a wonky jobs forecast with lay-offs having happened regularly for the past couple of years. If your damn royals aren't in it with you, then how else can you trust them?

At least Schackenborg works for their moolah.

10% of Derf's appanage is earmarked for Yrma. You KNOW that is the least of what she gets her grubby paws on. Derf is allotted 18 million kroner, or $3.2 million US. I guess The McCann Group Copenhagen and Australian PR agencies have really upped their prices. What the hell else could they be buying, what with the free cars deal they get and how Madam likes taking whatever she wants from Copenhagen boutiques.

Contrast to Joachim who gets a total of 3.2 million kroner, or just $575,000 US for his family of four. And he pays school fees!

Alexandra gets 2.1 million, or just over $375,000 US. Do not forget, Alex pays taxes unlike the others and Danish tax rates can easily hit 60%. So she is probably netting somewhere around $175,000 US/year. Not bad considering she's raising two young princes who are at the age when groceries disappear the second you bring them into the house, and yet, it's such a reasonable salary compared to the Derfies. She has at least kept several of her patronages.

Also, they all pay VAT at the point of sale, but everyone except Alexandra gets the VAT refunded to them, a horrible abuse of the system, and an administrative nightmare (and huge expense) that is not necessary.

Article: Ekstra Bladet

Here Is The Queen's Salary Increase

The stage is set for the Queen and members of the royal house to get a little more spending money when the new budget is adopted

Queen Margrethe get 200,000 more in annuities from Finance next year, so the total adds up to 72.3 million kroner in 2014. So learns the Ritzau Agency.

There is also a little more money to members of the royal house - they get 100,000 kroner more for a total of 24.8 million kroner.

These are the increases to the annuities to the royals with a total of 300,000 kroner next year.

Crown Prince Frederik gets 18 million and out of that he must pay 1.8 million to Crown Princess Mary.

Prince Joachim is in at Finance with 3.2 million, and his ex-wife, Countess Alexandra gets 2.1 million.

Looking over the past year, the economic belt got excited with a few cave-ins to the royals. Since there was a significant decrease in annuities from 2012 to 2013.

The members of the royal house in 2012 got 25.8 million - thus the neighbouring year's appropriation shrunk by a million kroner in two years.

The same applies to Queen Margrethe, who in 2014 gets 3.8 million kroner fewer annuities than in 2012, when the grant was 76.1 million.

Bien Jouée!: The Schackenborg Foil to Boganborg: Princess Marie Goes About Her Danish Duties, Bringing the Family Along When Appropriate!

Happy to be en famille when working for Denmark!

In increasingly stark contrast to her ridiculous sister-in-law's attempts to feed both her own ego as well as the Aussie photo agencies and to passive-aggressively taunt her weak husband, la belle et calme Princess Marie continues to balance her young family's needs with her responsibilities toward Denmark. What a treat to see a Danish princess fully engaged in her duties, firmly and happily ensconced on home turf, and bringing along her charming family when the event merits such!

Marie is diligently doing her duty bringing attention to not just Danish events, but also Jutlandish events. The Jutland Princess! Those Copenhagen snobs can't even believe it, but this is what makes Marie so well loved and completely beyond reproach. She is giving love to regions of the country written off as too small, unimportant, or worse, too backwater for a royal's attention. Pshaw! Marie knows exactly what she's doing. She's working both the provinces and the capital, content with her rural life, and her occasional urban experiences, widening the expanse of Denmark for those who don't know what is west of Valby. Brava, chère Marie!

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Today, Marie had an event with Nordic Gold, viewing their new jewellery line and handing out awards! Super cute top and adorable interaction with the young flower girl. The new haircut looks great here!

 

 

 

 

Over the weekend, Marie and Joachim took lille prins Henrik to Marie's Tønder Festival. This is an annual event for Marie to which she is very faithful, and it's a good first year for Henrik to attend, being just old enough to enough some music and of course, a nice ice cream treat. Certainly, Athena is still too young, non-toilet trained and perhaps fussy to attend while Maman is working. Nice, thoughtful touch to have lille Henrik wear the festival t-shirt!

 

 

Earlier, Marie and Joachim still had custody of Nikolai and Felix, and so took all three boys to the christening of a boat for the Nydam Society at the Nydam Bog for which Joachim is patron. Dedicated to the discoveries that remain a significant theme in the relationship between Danish and German cultures in the border region, this is another "home turf" occasion in which the Schackenborg family participate. This family understands the importance of togetherness, noblesse oblige transference to the next generation, and history lessons for the children. Bravo!

 

 

Sportif!: Derf Sails and Talks Dirty With Mates in San Francisco: Further Proof IOC Membership Was Giant Excuse For Playtime

"Wook at me! I go sailing wiff big boys! Yay!"

 

 

While his non-hard-working, bad Danish speaking wife-thinggie embarrasses Denmark and insults the Syrian civil war refugees in Jordan with the most grandiose incidence of irony around the issue of social welfare recipients, contrasting desperate, Muslim emigrants to the tiny Scandinavian nation with a desperate, skanky, work-shy, orchid-loving, grifter immigrant, Fred rides his recent Ironman victory high all the way to San Francisco, in California, USA, to "observe" America's Cup races in the beautiful bay there. Guess Mary really did succeed in swapping out the young, buxom blonde nannies with older hags, 'cause otherwise our boy would be deep c diving at home!

 

Do neither of these idiots realise that there are four children alone in a psychedelic palace with no one but young Danish women and underpaid staff to mind them? Hopefully, Auntie Marie made her way over to the children's palace for plenty of cuddles. Fred, go home. You're doing nothing for Denmark by sailing and talking dirty with your mates. There are sailboats and beer in Denmark. Go home and help Izzy with her first experience with homework. Huh? With Madam in Jordan, more time to hit the clubs after the kiddos go to bed and meet new friends.

 

Psst: careful with your wedding ring. You have a tendency to lose them in the US when you attend sailing events there! (Have the hotel search your nightstand immediately after you check out, and discretely mail it back to you in Denmark.)

 

Article: Oracle 

 

Three years ago His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark took the helm of Jimmy Spithill’s RC 44. Sailing with Spithill this week as a guest onboard ORACLE TEAM USA’s AC72 was an entirely new experience.

“It’s so different from monohull sailing. These boats are like big birds that fly really low to the water. It’s definitely amazing,” said Crown Prince Frederik.

A competitive sailor, Crown Prince Frederik recently skippered a crew of Denmark’s Olympic legends at the 2013 ISAF Nations Cup. He also completed his first Ironman – the 2013 KMD IRONMAN Copenhagen – a day prior to traveling to San Francisco.

As an athlete, he quickly recognized the skill and physicality required to race the AC72.

“There is a lot of focus from all of the crew – the AC72 demands attention as everything happens in a short time span and the stress level can be quite high,” said Crown Prince Frederik. “The experience of the crew is evident in how they work together.

“I’m very thrilled to have been able to be here and to join the team onboard – I feel very lucky.”

Crown Prince Frederik will be watching much of this year’s America’s Cup from his home in Copenhagen. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee, and he will be attending the IOC’s annual general assembly during the Cup, but will be paying close attention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA

 

Yrma in Jordan: The Yahoo Circus Continues: Clueless, Heavily Made Up and Thinking About Her Aussie Audience, Not About Making a Difference

Very aggressive grabbing there, Mares! Review your Diana playbook - she didn't do it like that.

 

 

This painfully obtuse and distracting sideshow continues, diverting the attention of the people on the ground away from their important work at the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. It's so disgusting. It's like Mary issued the McCann Group Copenhagen with strict orders to make her into the New Diana and get her the attention of the Australian press and maybe even the attention of the queen herself. (In Mary's mind, the real queen is Elizabeth, not Dais.) It's such a disgusting spectacle watching this idiotic, vapid woman in her sheer dress, red fuck-me pumps, extra diamonds (today there is a superfluous and pricey ring on her right hand, in addition to the supplemented rubies, her eternity wedding ring, and diamond earrings from yesterday evening) failing to make anything but the most rude connection with people. Look at her manhandle the very clearly hurt and grieving woman in the top photo and stretching across (blocking) others in the process! Joizus! That's NOT how you do it, More-y Antoinette!

 

Meanwhile, the intertoobs are fascinated by the story of an Arabic-speaking American woman journalist who is such a truthteller about the Syrian regime (as opposed to Madam's choice of a Bashar Al-Assad bestie as Princess Josephine's godfather), that she is now blacklisted by the regime. Here's a woman whose job it is to remain neutral, but in the face of such egregious crimes against humanity perpetrated by Bashar Al Assad, bestie of Josie's godfather Carlo di Borbone Due-Sicilie, that she refuses to pretend that there are two equally justified sides of the story. But Mary's more morally duplicitous. Mary can NOT compete with actual do-gooders and truthtellers. She's here for herself, not The Poors. Especially since they seem to have confiscated her camera. Thank God that camera hasn't made an appearance.

 

GO HOME, MARY! Your husband may be schtupping blondes in San Francisco, but there's nothing you're going to be able to do about that. Your kids have just started school and could use a parent about now. Go home. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Do not stop in Jerusalem to fix that little Israeli-Palestinian issue. Do not listen to your own PR poops. Go home and just ask Izzy if she's liking school. That's all. But do please practice a new resting face in the mirror. The chicken anus mouth while Important People are talking is not Serious International Diplomat material.