Denmark’s royal family is facing an extra set of challenges as it tries to make its footprint smaller.
Though the Danish family has been unusually open about the relationship between the family members and their roles as public figures in the past, the circumstances around hereditary monarchy really have changed over the last half century as the media has begun to treat royals more like global celebrities.
Another explanation for the timing might have to do with a news event that transfixed the world for much of this month. Queen Margrethe, who is now the last queen regent after the death of her third cousin Queen Elizabeth II. She attended last week’s funeral . Though the timing for stripping her grandchildren’s titles apparently seemed surprising to them, it makes sense that the Kongehuset is thinking about becoming “future-proof” as another European country is seeing a change in monarch.
Regardless of whether Margrethe could have communicated her goals to Joachim and his children in a more sensitive way, the change ultimately lines up with the way she has spent her life both as a monarch and a well-regarded painter and translator. In a 2016 interview withshe explained that her job as queen was not about glamour. “It’s not for me to say whether royalty still has an aura—I look at it in a fairly matter-of-fact way.
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