Danish Royal Family is suffering its own Meghan Markle “crisis”

According to royal experts speaking to MailOnline today, the Danish Royal Family is going through its own Meghan Markle “crisis,” and King Charles III will be “watching carefully” as pressure mounts on him to take “decisive action” regarding the futures of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and his other relatives.

With the justification that it is “for their own good,” Queen Margrethe, 82, has stripped four of her eight grandchildren of their princely titles, setting off a bitter family feud reminiscent of the one that erupted when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK and immigrated to California in January 2020.

The sole reigning monarch in Europe said that other royals, especially her late cousin Queen Elizabeth II, had encouraged her to withdraw their titles so that her younger son Prince Joachim’s four children, Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, and Athena, might have more regular lives. The Danish palace subsequently noted that it is in line with similar efforts by other European royal families, particularly the Windsors, to streamline their kingdoms.

Her second son Joachim and his four children, meanwhile, have been “upset” by her choice. The two oldest sons of his previous marriage, Nikolai and Felix, have been dubbed “playboy princes” since they are professional models and did not finish their two-year military training because they both felt it was “not suitable for them.” Joachim, the prince, claims his mother only informed him five days before. Countess of Frederiksborg, his first wife, revealed Friday night that she is “in shock.”

The Danish Royal Family is in “crisis,” according to Jacob Heinel Jensen, royal journalist for national newspaper BT who has been at the center of the story in Denmark, and is now going through its own Megxit, he told MailOnline.

The circumstances in Denmark now are similar to those in the UK two years ago, he said. On television yesterday, we saw Prince Joachim acting out of character and lamenting the plight of his kids. There are obvious similarities between him and Harry.

We have seen this slimming down over all of Europe. He said, “The days of enormous royal families, supported by the tax payer, with prince after prince and princess after princess, are ended.”

Possibly discussing her intentions to streamline the monarchy with Charles during the “reception of the century” held at Buckingham Palace on the day of the Queen’s death, according to Mr. Jensen.

“Margrethe was quite close to the Queen,” Mr. Jensen stated. She was one of the few who addressed her as “Lilibet,” while Her Majesty addressed her by her Danish nickname, “Daisy.” I’m not sure how close she is to Charles, but her status as possibly Europe’s most senior royal was evident by how near the Queen’s casket was while she was in London.

Charles has long spoken about the need to trim down his family, and he will be closely following what is occurring in Denmark, the guy said.

The future queen, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, today supported her mother-in-law Queen Margrethe’s choice to deprive four of her grandchildren of their royal titles and expressed concern about the stability of her own children’s places. Because they are worried about what Prince Joachim may do next, Mr. Jensen said that this is a clear “olive branch” to him.

According to Mr. Jensen, Queen Margrethe has enormous popularity in Denmark and, like her late cousin Queen Elizabeth II, is adored for her devotion to the crown and the nation’s citizens.

However, polling indicates that opinions about her choice in Denmark are divided, with some calling her “The Ice Queen,” which may worry Prince Charles if he is contemplating isolating Harry, Meghan, and their children.

A year before Megxit, at the end of 2018, the Swedish King made his customary Christmas speech to explain why he decided to deprive five of his grandchildren of their royal titles. This marked the beginning of the streamlining of Europe’s royal family. The number of working royals in the Netherlands has been reduced by King Willem Alexander to only five, along with the number of his residences, servants, limousines, and working heirs.

Even this similarity and trend were addressed in the Danish Crown’s statement, which said that the Queen’s choice is “in line with comparable modifications that other royal families have undertaken in different ways in recent years.”

It is well known that King Charles III has advocated for the House of Windsor to be reduced in size for many years.

Margrethe, who is currently the sole reigning monarch in Europe, will also have observed her cousin Queen Elizabeth II’s tough stance on her son Prince Andrew, who was stripped of all his military distinctions and royal patronage in January due to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein and his multi-million dollar settlement with Epstein’s sex slave, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Experts have warned that Margrethe’s action would increase pressure on Charles to expedite his plans, including making a decision quickly on Harry and Meghan’s future and whether Archie and Lilibet should be HRH.

Why is Harry still an HRH? asked former MP Norman Baker, a renowned authority on royal finances, to MailOnline. Charles claims to desire to streamline the monarchy, but this must be sincere and not just pretentious. He has to reduce the expense to the tax payer. Just him, Camilla, William, Kate, and their kids will do. The remainder of them need to collect their P45s and either retire or find work.

The need to trim down the too large British royal family, he said, has long been evident and has only become more so as other European kingdoms, including the Danish one, have done the same to fit in with the 21st century. The fact that minor sidekicks like the Kents and Gloucesters still come with the bundle is becoming more ludicrous.

Tom Bower, an author and investigative journalist who just authored a biography of Meghan Markle, stated: “Charles does need to cut the numbers to defend the monarchy from criticism.” His main challenge is to counteract the Sussexes’ poison, which does pose a danger to his hegemony. The Sussexes’ issue is that their vitriol towards the Royal family in their book and Netflix series is essential to their financial existence. The greatest strategy for Charles would be to threaten to take away their titles if they show disloyalty.

When Margrethe and Charles visited at Buckingham Palace on the night of the Queen’s burial, several people saw how friendly she was toward Charles and wondered whether they had ever considered reducing their royal households.

‘The King, who was seen chatting to Queen Margrethe during his mother’s burial, may be pushed by her to take dramatic action over Harry and Meghan,’ said royal analyst Phil Dampier. On the royal website, the Sussexes have already been downgraded.

But until he learns the details of Harry’s book and Netflix program, both of which seem to be traveling back in time, Charles may be hesitant to make too many choices. The Danish Queen has been forceful, yet polarizing. Charles will want to make choices and absorb lessons, but he can’t put them off indefinitely.

And other royal families will have had an impact on Margrethe II’s choice as well. In 2019, her neighbor King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden stated that Princess Madeleine’s children will no longer have the title of HRH, leaving only Crown Princess Victoria and her offspring as the HRHs.

The Dutch royal family has likewise been drastically reduced in size. Prince Constantijn, the brother of King Willem-Alexander, and Princess Laurentien, his wife, are both employed full-time and do not receive any constitutional allowances from the crown as European royal families compete to maintain their standing and relevance.

However, Prince Joachim, 53, who is now wed to Princess Marie, his second wife, told the Danish news organization Ekstra Bladet: “We are all extremely sorry. Witnessing your children suffer damage is never enjoyable. They have been placed in an unfamiliar position. He said that the decision hadn’t even been announced to him for five days. The four children of Prince Joachim are Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, and Athena, who range in age from 23 to ten. As on January 1, they will no longer have such titles.

The government decided in 2016 that only the future king, Prince Christian, would get financing when his siblings reached adulthood. The queen’s other four grandchildren, born to Crown Prince Frederik, 54, would keep their titles.

In Britain, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continue to be at odds with King Charles and his son Prince William, his successor, particularly over their protection while in the UK and whether or not their children will be Prince and Princess.

Archie and Lilibet’s next book titles have not yet been revealed. The Royal Family’s website has already been modified to reflect the Prince and Princess of Wales’ new titles, but Archie and Lilibet’s have not.

The children, who are sixth and seventh in line to the throne after the death of their great-grandmother three weeks ago, now have the right to use the titles prince and princess. However, Buckingham Palace has yet to publicly clarify whether this will take place.

A King Charles representative also said last week that it was “unlikely” that any declaration would be made until at least September 26, when the official period of mourning comes to an end. No announcement has yet been made.

In accordance with regulations established by King George V in 1917 restricting the number of royal family members authorized to claim an HRH title, Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, became qualified for the titles upon the death of the Queen.

The only royals permitted to use the HRH title are the children of the sovereign, the children of the sovereign’s sons, and the oldest surviving son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, according to the monarch’s Letters Patent, a formal edict expressing his desires.

According to several reports, King Charles intends to run a “slimmed-down” monarchy during his reign, which would allow him to concentrate on his heirs rather than his disgraced brother the Duke of York.

According to royal insiders, Charles feels Prince Andrew no longer has a place in the monarchy, and the Duke of York won’t be awarded any of his military titles again after losing them when information about his connections to Epstein came to light.

The Prince will lose all of his military titles and patronages, according to a January statement from Buckingham Palace. It is believed that the decision was significantly influenced by King Charles and Prince William.

The unrest caused by Queen Margrethe’s choice is still going on in Denmark.

As his mother “says there’s no good explanation,” Prince Nikolai said that he is saddened, astonished, and perplexed by his grandmother Queen Margrethe’s decision to dethrone him and his brothers “for their own benefit.”

The queen informed the 23-year-old prince and his three siblings that stripping them of their titles would be “good for them in the future.” As a result, the prince will no longer be allowed to use the title His Royal Highness.

It happens at the same time that his mother’s publicity secretary, Countess Alexandra, questioned why the change couldn’t have been postponed until their wedding, when they would “lose their titles anyhow.”

Naturally, my whole family and I are really upset. The choice and how swiftly it really happened have shocked us, as have my parents,’ Prince Nikolai, Prince Joachim’s oldest son, told the Danish daily Extrabladet.

The decision has also left Countess Alexandra, mother to 20-year-old Princes Nikolai and Felix, “extremely sad” and “shocked.”

“There’s no good explanation,” she says, “and she can’t believe why and why now.” CNN was informed by Countess Alexandra’s press secretary, Helle von Wildenrath Lvgreen.

When they eventually get married, they would be stripped of their titles anyhow. Since her sons are young men who would soon get married, why not wait until that time so that the titles would vanish on a joyous occasion?

The Danish royal family retaliated on Thursday morning after Prince Joachim claimed his four children had just a five-day warning from their grandmother Queen Margrethe that they would lose their titles.

The decision had been “long time coming,” according to the palace, and was intended to “future-proof” the monarchy. The palace acknowledged that there are “a lot of emotions” around the matter.

The news that their titles of prince and princess will be removed, as well as their inability to use His or Her Royal Highness, has been deemed harmful by Prince Joachim, 53, the youngest of Margrethe’s two sons. Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10, were among the children who received the statement.

We’re all terribly depressed. Witnessing your children suffer damage is never enjoyable. In a conversation with the Danish news sourceEkstra Bladet, he added, “They are being placed in a position they do not comprehend.

Outside the Danish Embassy in Paris, where he resides with his second wife Marie and their children Henrik and Athena, stood Prince Joachim, who is sixth in line to the throne after his brother and his children.

The offspring of his first marriage to Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, are models Nikolai and Felix.

The revelation came as a “blast out of the blue,” according to Alexandra, 58, who spent 10 years of her marriage to Prince Joachim before divorcing him in 2005. Her boys now feel “ostracized” from their family, she said. Additionally, according to her spokeswoman, Joachim did not hear the news directly from his mother but rather through a royal assistant.

Prince Christian, 16, Princess Isabella, 15, and Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, twins, age 11, who were born to Margrethe’s oldest son and heir Crown Prince Frederik, will all continue to hold their titles.

According to a local media source, the decision has caused a “icy” climate among the Royal Household and has riven what was once a fairly harmonious family. According to Danish royal writer Kenth Madsen, “the Queen and Prince Joachim have never engaged in a public argument.”

They did indeed present a unified face when they honored Queen Margrethe’s Golden Jubilee a few weeks ago.

Queen Margrethe, 82, who attended the burial with her oldest son Crown Prince Frederick, expressed her hope that the change would free her grandchildren from the ceremonial obligations and unique considerations that come with being a