Denmark's Queen Margrethe—a highly educated, chain-smoking, six-foot-tall “eternal student”—recently stripped the royal titles from four of her grandchildren.
Her husband was not so fulfilled in his position. Like Prince Philip, in his early years, Henrik appeared to be at a loss in his new subservient role, andThe queen was publicly sympathetic to her husband’s odd position, telling Wolden-Ræthinge:
I do not think that his new life in Denmark was always very easy for my husband. We were both madly in love and knew this was what we wanted, but we had no doubts that it would have a price. It has not been effortless for my husband to alter so many things in his life or—in some ways—to change himself.was born. A year later, Prince Joachim arrived—the heir and the spare complete. “They grew up as twins, were even dressed alike by their nanny,” Villemann says.
Busy with their duties, Margrethe and Henrik had little time for day-to-day child rearing. “She has admitted to having been an absent mom when her boys were small because she put her duty before her family life,” Villemann says. “We left quite a lot of the boys’ upbringing and their company to others, and as a result, we and the boys have missed a lot,” Margrethe recalled inHowever, Villemann has reported that the young princes were not totally shielded from their parents’ dysfunction. “Their marriage was definitely tumultuous—and from very early on,” Villemann says. “In my bookI describe an incident where Margrethe and Henrik were arguing furiously while their infant son Frederik was sleeping next door.
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