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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Why Isn't Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark a True Degenerate?


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This is a picture of the place where Danish Crown Prince Frederik lives.

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!


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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

his own wife, Tasmanian Mary, was the one who said they were going to modernize the monarchy. Maybe it's all her fault!

dodo said...

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.

Cece said...

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

Anonymous said...

"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!

Peter H. Fogtdal said...

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

Peter H. Fogtdal said...

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)

thrilla said...

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?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Prins Joachim must be the next danish king.

kitty said...

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!

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Kim F. Rasmussen said...

I think you have forgot our colonies in India and Africa :)

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Peter H. Fogtdal said...

Dear friends.

This is an old blog entry and I appreciate all the comments I've received, but I'm not interested in this becoming a chat room for people who are pro or con Mary, Frederik and other royals.

Thanks for understanding. All the best to all of you.