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This is a picture of the Danish Crown Prince Frederik.
We're very proud of him, even though he only works 81 days a year. He also has an adorable wife. Her name is Crown Princess Mary of Tasmania - an Australian island that's not exactly known as a breeding ground for Danish royalty.
I like Frederik, and I think it's unfair that he has taken so much flack. The Danes are upset that he makes 17 million kroner a year which, disgustingly, is the same as our best soccer players. We're also upset that he is "lazy" and that he flaunts his blue blood at a time when red is the only way to go.
You see, in Denmark we're all about equality, so if we have a Crown Prince who thinks he's more important than us, we want to set him straight. "Why do you need a private secretary when Mrs. Hansen doesn't?" we scream. "Don't you monarchs know how to type?"
As a country, we have a lot of problems. However, the most important isn't the economy or our growing racism, but what to do with the Royal family. Should we execute them in the name of democracy and elect an obese president? Or should we take pride in the fact that we're the oldest Kingdom in the world?
Since I always live in the past (you have to when you're Danish), I'm definitely a royalist. I want Denmark to keep Queen Margrethe and her Dachshund. And I want Frederik to become our most important King since Oluf Hunger.
That's why I think the discussion about modernizing the Royal Family is absurd. I mean, the Crown Prince is on Facebook, for Christ's sake, shouldn't that be modern enough for any one?
So the solution must be the opposite of modernization: We should bring back the good old days when Denmark mattered. First of all, Norway should be returned to us immediately (except for their national football team which sucks) - plus other old Danish countries like Sweden, Iceland, England, the Baltic States, and let's not forget the Virgin Islands.
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I think Crown Prince Frederik will be happy when he reads this. I bet he's tired of representing Denmark in Uganda and Lithuania. It must be an awful job smiling to business leaders and pretending you want to hear about laxatives. You also have to sit through boring meetings with mayors and other Riff-Raff. No, let's face it, we don't need a Prince in Armani. We need an Absolute Monarch - a hard drinking degenerate who can kick some ass and lay down the law like the Vikings used to.
I mean, what's wrong with rape, pillage, and conquer? It has worked for us as a country before and it will work for us again.
So your Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark-Norway, Greenland, and Those Funny Caribbean Islands That America Stole ... as far as I'm concerned, you can be as lazy as you want as long as you give us back our national pride. Marrying a Tasmanian and getting two adorable kids just doesn't do the trick.
King Canute, the Danish king who conquered England. We want our English province back. Now!*********




18 comments:
his own wife, Tasmanian Mary, was the one who said they were going to modernize the monarchy. Maybe it's all her fault!
You don't have to chop his head off. Just send him to Miami and let the boy sails for the rest of his life (that's what he does most of the time anyway).
As for Mary, as long as you can provide her with a lifetime supply of Prada and buy her a house in an English-speaking country (not Australia, we don't want that trashy gold-digger back), she would be happy not becoming Queen of Denmark.
You mean her dachshund named Henrik? ;)
Poor Freddles. I like him despite his downward spiral, inarticulate nature and self-centred hedonism. Daisy did a real number on him!
If only he'd married someone decent and not this famewhore hillbilly who still can't even speak the language!
Kære Peter, would you be interested in helping to translate a blog into a dansk book? http://cpmary.blogspot.com
"Marrying a Tasmanian and getting two adorable kids just doesn't do the trick."
Says who? King Freddy can always sail accross the oceans and conquer Tasmania. I'm sure Tassies would prefer that heavily bleached Queenie Mary than Oz PM Rudd to rule the island. Viva le Bogans! Yeah!
God, I think you guys are hard on Mary. I like her. I even said hi to her when I was invited up on the Royal castle back in March 2008 http://fogtdal.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
Does Peter know about Mary's superb family? There's a whole saga. Who could dream up a best friend, Amber Petty, photogaphed draped over a bikie who was murdered shortly afterwards ... or the convicted cousin-in-law Brendan Johncock in Tasmania (who spent time in jail for having s*x with a minor who was in his care -and Mary invited him to the wedding with charges pending and the police investigation under way! I think Mary is a great gal, really colourful, with a true-blue Aussie past, and it's a real shame the Danes have turned her into a brittle and self conscious character ...
I had no idea about this. I'm obviously in total shock. I'll now head up to the Royal Castle and un-shake Mary's hand that I shook 15 months ago.
Thanks for setting me straight about Mary, dear Anonymous (is that your real name, by the way?) I needed that!
All the best (and thanks for the nice words on your site)
If you like Mary so much, then you've obviously been reading too much Billed Bladet, whose sole position on her and the DRF in general, harks back to enevæld. They can do no wrong. To me, it is quite clear that she is just a media-hungry (to put it politely), Prada-obsessed bogan, who can't get enough of the cameras. She's also quite plastic now. Will the real Mary Donaldson please stand up, or did she die on the day of the wedding and a Stepford princess took her place?
Funnily enough I have always thought that Freddles was as degenerate as they come. Go figure...
Anyways I would not really count on him to do some real kick behind pillaging, with his unfortunate stuttering and tourette-like movements he probably wouldn't even get his point across.
His wife however should not be underestimated. Personally I would not want to get between her and the new Prada collection on payday....
When i visited Denmark for the first time, i didn't know that there was "kongelig familie" in DK. I found out, that danes adores them, and pays millions for them, jast to represent DK. It's really funny. For me, the best representatives of Denmark were, are and ALWAYS be H.C. Andersen, Niels Bohr..etc..but not those royal brats. As for princess Mary, well, you must be masochist to like her...Your future queen tells you, that you are SLOW DANE, and you like her. Where is you future king now, probably sailing AGAIN? And your future queen is preparing for another trip to Australia... HAHAHA
Prins Joachim must be the next danish king.
Team Joachim!
Peter, I read Lystrejsen a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Frederik 4 was fabulous. Even if he impoverished the nation in the process.
Love the blog! Your expressiveness is very udansk - and that's a compliment!
In your blog regarding shaking hands with Mary, you said your girlfriend "was out of her league" at the time. Well I hardly think so! And if Choul was out of her league, she was in good company, cause I believe Mary, the bogan is out of her league everyday in Denmark !
Btw, Choul is lovely, she'd make a lovely Crown Princess ;-)!
Peter, you will find out about the wonderful Amber at her work website - Adelaide SAFM radio. She even posted her D and E grades from school! She's out there! She's currently having an online stoush with Sir Richard Branson ... we love our Ambs. Unfortunately, the senior members of the DRF have ditched her since a indiscretion last year during a (hurriedly cut short) trip to Denmark for Fred's 40th... she phoned the radio station from Denmark and claimed Margrethe was sneaking ciggies with her out the back of a venue. She was also spectacularly rude about Margrethe's arrangements for the wedding ...
Thanks for all your great comments. Yes, it's true, Kitty. My favorite king is Frederik IV. I'm still in mourning over his death - back in 1730.
Frederik IV is also in The Tsar's Dwarf, my novel that came out in the US and Canada half a year ago. (It's out as La Naine du Tsar in France)
You Aussies can buy it on amazon.com. The humor is very dark and since you like my blog, you'll probably like the novel.
As far as Mary is concerned, a few of you call her a gold digger. Well, IF she is (I have no dea), she's in good company. Through history all Queens have been pushed into marriage because some one - their family or themselves - saw a huge advantage in the connection. Maybe Tassies aren't different than "normal" human beings? Or maybe Fred and Mary did fall in love and would've married, any way?
Seriously, I don't care. I just want to write my novels and my blog to piss people off :-)
Thanks again, everybody!
I think you have forgot our colonies in India and Africa :)
Joachim for King ?....surely you mean queen.
I'm an American living in Southern California.
I just found this blog and love the interesting info on Mary & Prada...and Frederik who stutters?
Mary and Fred used to appear looking lovingly into each others eyes. It occured to me recently that I rarely see pics of them together...much less acting in a lovey dovey way.
What's up with their marriage? I'm guessing they don't really like each other anymore.
Can someone give me the low down on what's happening between M & F?
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