On Christmas Eve, Danish public television published a survey that gave the following verdict: 38% of its citizens consider that the Queen Margaret – the only blue blood queen left in Europe –, was the “best representative of the Danish royal house.” Her firstborn and until a few hours ago heir to the throne, Frederick of Denmarkwas still in the spotlight of public opinion after its latest controversies and troubles.
The most recent, last November, when in a private visit to Madrid was photographed in a very close attitude with the aristocrat Genoveva Casanova, ex-partner of Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, son of the Duchess of Alba, with whom she has two twin sons. Apparently, the aristocrat She is a great expert in art and made her guide the prince on his route of museums, flamenco and gastronomy through the Spanish capital.
The ‘Hello!’ He published that the meeting was not planned but was something fortuitous. The official explanation is that a friend of both was the one who planned to accompany Federico to visit the exhibition ‘Picasso, the sacred and the profane’ at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. But because of the covid he could not carry out his plans and asked Genoveva to replace him.
The heir and Genoveva in Madrid
The photos of the couple walking through the streets of Madrid (in the Retiro park or in the Corral de la Morería) and the fact that it was published that the heir to the Danish Crown slept at the Madrid home of the Mexican model put to the Danish royalty in the media spotlight.
The scan also coincided with the visit of Felipe and Letizia to the Nordic country. The Suspicions of infidelity were the talk inside and outside the Copenhagen palace and the dinner of the Kings of Spain in honor of the royal family of Denmark was ‘hacked’ by the harsh marital reality of the Crown Princes Frederick and Mary Donaldson.
Controversial history
It is not the first time, however, that the wayward Federico puts in trouble Margaret II of Denmark, who unexpectedly announced his abdication during his New Year’s speech. The new head of state, supreme authority of the Church of his country and commander-in-chief of the Danish Armed Forces from next January 14 – when he will be enthroned as Frederick.
The new king descends from the Glücksburg house He will reign under the name of his grandfather, King Frederick IX. If things don’t go wrong, one day he will be succeeded by his son Christian, who in turn is named after his great-grandfather, Christian X. That’s how the monarchy works.
jibarized royal family
The one that Federico inherits now comes to him jibarized by his mother’s decisionsince Margaret, like her relatives who occupy the thrones of Europe, have assumed in recent years that The survival of the ancient institution they represent depends, among other things, on cutting expenses and members considered the hard core of the royal family (the same did Charles III in England, or Philip VI, in Spain).
In 2022 Margaret opened a family schism by stripping four of her eight grandchildren, Prince Joachim’s children, of their princely titles.and, therefore, of its royal duties and privileges, as of January 1, 2023.
Federico must deal not only with the estrangement with his only brother but with the duty that fell to him from the day he was born: inheriting a crown from which for a while he tried to get away.
The first son of Margaret and the French nobleman Henri Laborde de Monpezat He was born on May 26, 1968, four months after his cousin Felipe de Borbón. As heir to the throne, his career was written from the beginning: study a career, receive military training, occupy a position in the Council of State… His friendships would be supervised, and his marriage would have to have the approval of the crown to guarantee the continuity of the crown.
Lover of speed and models
None of that fit with the life of a young man born that May of ’68, free spirit, adventurer, lover of sports, music (he liked to DJ), cars (he was once caught speeding and earned the nickname ‘turbo prince’), and also models and rock stars.
It was soon discovered as a womanizer ‘casanova’. He had a first girlfriend in high school, Wed Egmont, with whom he broke up shortly after. Then she met Nina Klinker Jorgensen, a brunette beauty whom he met at Aarhus University, where he was studying Political Science and she was studying Law. The courtship ended when she decided to dedicate herself to cinema. Then the romance would come with the model Malou Aamundwho was still married, although in divorce proceedings, when she met him.
First bomb
The scandal came on New Year’s Eve 1992, the police arrested the young woman for driving a vehicle at full speed, without papers and while intoxicated. Federico went with her. The matter reached Parliament and it was even discussed whether the heir should renounce his right. But a few apologies from the Danish royal house were enough and they sent the boy to study in the United States. Because of him, The ‘royal’ golden bachelor continued on the other side of the pond with his binges.
In 1996, Queen Margaret had to take action in her courtship with the Danish model Katja Storkholm Nielsen, after posing she is practically naked for an underwear brand. Frederick hosted his next love, a Danish pop singer named Maria Montell, in his private apartment in the royal palace. He then he fooled around with the designer Bettina Oedumthe protagonist of the prince’s next controversy: some photos where the young woman appeared topless, on the deck of a boat on the French Riviera.
Felipe VI introduced him to Mary
During the Sydney Olympics in 2000, during a night of drinking, Felipe de Borbón introduced him to Mary Donaldson, an Australian lawyer. They became lovers, she left her country and settled in London with her father. Although Queen Margaret did not see her favorably as the future wife of her son, since she was a commoner, she finally agreed.
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The wedding took place in Copenhagen Cathedral on May 14, 2004, just a week before Felipe and Letizia got married.
Today, after almost two decades and four children in common -Christian (2005), Isabel (2007), Vicente Federico (2011) and Josefina (2011)-, Federico comes to the throne with a marriage worn out by his last dalliances in Madrid (and the response from his wife, who has spent almost the entire month of December in Australia, with her family), and with a public opinion that would have preferred that his mother, Queen Margaret, 83, had lasted more years on the throne.