The Royal Correspondent

Yesterday, June 6, 2011, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and H.R.H. Prince Henrik of Denmark began their six-day tour of the United States.  The reigning couple began their visit to Washington D.C., where they attended a reception in their honor at the Danish Ambassador’s residence.

The couple were warmly greeted by the attendees where Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II was given beautiful flowers by one of the government workers.  The purpose of this visit is to, “… strengthen Danish-American relations… the visit will primarily focus on cultural activities and company visits…” notes the Danish magazine Billed Bladet.

On June 7, 2011, the reigning couple began their packed day of events. First, Her Majesty visited the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History where “…she observed the exhibit ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and the maritime exhibit, ‘On the Water: Stories from Maritime America.”  (source)

Meanwhile, H.R.H. Prince Henrik toured the Danish company, Mil-Tek, at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Ashburn. According to Bryan Wingfield, CEO of Mil-Tek:

The Prince will be a part of the worldwide launch of Mil-tek’s new recycling solution. We are honored to have His Royal Highness focus on our company to demonstrate Mil-tek’s business solutions and applications during the Danish Royal Visit to the United States. Prince Henrik will lead the debut and demonstration of Mil-tek’s polystyrene reducer. Polystyrene is large, cumbersome packaging material that takes up excessive amounts of space in the waste stream and doesn’t break down in our landfills. Mil-tek’s compacting machine reduces existing waste costs by up to 80 percent. (source)

At noon, the reigning couple met up at the presidential yacht, USS Sequoia, where a luncheon was held in their honor by Ditlev Engell, CEO of Vestas (another Danish energy company.)  After a lovely lunch Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and H.R.H. Prince Henrik visited the Library of Congress.  Here observed they Hans Christian Andersen collection in the Wilson Room and much more.

From there Her Majesty arrived at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Here she met with the Royal Danish Ballet who have been on tour in the United States for the past several weeks.  Anyway, after her meeting the queen sat down for tea with Mrs. Victoria Reggie Kennedy.  What they discussed is unknown and private.

Tonight, the reigning couple will attend the première performance (in Washington D.C., that is) ‘A Folk Tale’ by the Royal Danish Ballet at the J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts.  A reception for the Danish royal couple will follow.

Tomorrow, is another full day for Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and H.R.H. Prince Henrik of Denmark which includes mid-morning tea with the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.

To view photos from today’s events please click the links here, here, here, here,  and here. 

To watch a video please click the link here.

Sources: Kongehuest.dk, Loudoun Times, Vestas, and Billed Bladet

Photo courtesy of: Daylife by Paul Morigi/gettyimages

For the past several days, HRH Prince Henrik of Denmark has been touring in French Guiana to see wildlife as well as to give himself an excuse to get out of freezing Denmark.

According to the Danish magazine, Billed Bladet, the French-born prince is the President of the World Wildlife Fund Denmark chapter and:

… together with Secretary Gitte Seeberg, he visited the turtle center Awala Yalimapo (in French Guiana) as well as to see how to extract the gold without the use of mercury. Prince Henrik is also very interested in the WWF’s work to preserve the rainforest, but during the visit that lasts until this Sunday, was thus also time for some festive relaxation in the capital Cayenna, when Prince Consort wandered up the main street with ladies in festive and colorful robes.

So, yeah… Prince Henrik is a kind and thoughtful man so incredibly interested in the environment and animals.  Yet, his favorite pastime is to hunt and kill innocent animals for fun, then line up the poor slaughtered animals in front of his home, Fredensborg Castle, with their bellies sliced open and with torches around them whilst drinking booze, with the rest of his hunting friends.    He also loves to wear slaughtered animal fur.

Yeah.

What a guy.  :major eyeroll:

To view more photos of Henrik vacationing working in French Guiana as well as swimming in a Crocodile infested river please click the link:  Croc bait and Dancing and Snake lover

Source:  Billed Bladet Photo courtesy of: Daylife by Demotix Images

While Paris Fashion Week is in full swing with major VIPs gazing at stunning designs by some of the world’s most famous designers and another VIP is in town.  His name:  HRH Prince Henrik of Denmark.

So why is the Prince in town?  Well, one thing is for sure, he’s not in lovely old gay Paris to attend the fashion shows.  Nope, he’s in town to pimp his new autobiography that he co-wrote with Danish journalist, Stephanie Surrugue.  This is the second time a book about the Prince’s life has been written (they last one was in 1995.)  The current book entitled, Enegænger – Portræt Af en Prins, recalls the over-privilaged life of a gluttonous and otherwise self-entitled French born turned Danish Prince.  I’m sure there is other important information within this latest book, but honestly I cannot imagine would Prince Henrik would want to share with the world this time.

So, you are still curious as what the contents within the book cover, no?  Okay, here it is:

Descriptions of his very different childhood in Indochina and France, the son of a patriarchal father who consistently said to his children and also reluctantly allowed himself to say the opposite. A childhood so far away from the welfare state of Denmark, which you can almost get in Europe.

An aristocratic family with possessions in Indochina, as the young Henri dreamed of returning to what turned out to be an impossible dream. Instead, he sought a career in diplomacy and dreamed of becoming ambassador, not only to act on polished floors, but very little to represent France and be where war is declared. As he himself puts it in the book.

It was not sung by the young Henri de Monpezat cradle that he should be the figurehead of Lilliputian country, but whether it was love (as he himself says it) or ambition (as his father did in the beginning), so went that way, and he came here without following his father’s advice: “Henri, I advise you to clarify your position!”

The Language Problem.  Henri e never quite done, and it was probably his destiny as it unfolds nicely over the sides. Excellent told, though the story is a bit bumpy for quite escape unscathed from a writer not to enter gobelinsalen.

It is as if language thickens into the mouths of people when they’re confused tripper into the salons and allowed to be part of honor, where princes ‘chuckles’ Krabasken ‘dancing’ on the children’s backs, and older married people ‘riposte laughing’ when arguing sociable.

One can hardly breathe in these very Fidele passages, but perhaps it is in reality a part of the royal house’s existence, it can get even young, free-growing staff of Hørup old newspaper to curtsy so deeply that it squeaks completely out of adjectives .

Almost 20 times we are told that the family Monpezat house in Hanoi was not just a house, but the ‘yellow ocher huge house,’ and that kind of flat journalist clichés tired a lot.

In return they work frequent genetic shifts fine, alternates between recounting, reportage, flashbacks, direct interview questions and personal reflections, when Stéphanie Surrugue just write something on the block, an idea, a note.

One of the things she writes on the block, the word rumors, and she is about to ask directly for all sorts of gossip about Henry’s sexual preferences. He understands where she will go and corresponding balanced and dignified, the price of being famous.

The Prince Consort also paid a different price for his life choices, we sense in the text. But it is too easy, as Surrugue that compare ‘Prince Consort’s immigrant history and the modern history of Denmark. “

“He has come to realize the same as all other immigrants. You have to speak Danish, and preferably without an accent. “

A cheap, politically correct point that pulls the book down, because it may well be that Henry embraces an Eskimo on the last pages as a celebration of a kind common destiny in Denmark, but the only thing Henri de Monpezat have in common with a Greenlandic artist or khatgnaskende Somali illiterate is that none of them are born in Hjørring.

A Frenchman in Denmark.  Skepticism about Prince Henrik expressed better in a picture at the end of the (much) richly illustrated book.  French and foreign in every way.

For it is Henrik fate that he is fundamentally French and precisely thereby fundamentally alien, not only at home (as the book seems to think) but many other places where the French viewed with skepticism. Think of John Kerry, who during the American presidential campaign had to hide that he mastered French, just not to lose the election completely and be hung out like unfolksy.

Henri is French of spirit and mind, and he has a keen eye for the significance of language for the whole thinking, he often refuses to speak English ‘not to feel colonized.’ That’s it.

That is precisely why the Danish-French Surrugue a good choice for a defensorat (for the book too) of the man who would probably be Danish, but not sacrificing his insistent French aesthetics, whether it’s language or cuisine, and as despite (or perhaps because of) his undeniable skill as a representative of Denmark at home and abroad remained a strange bird.

Custom and very golden cage, yes, but after all, one destiny. As he writes in one of his poems (gender by Per Aage Brandt):

‘Even a royal palace, with one thousand doors, wide wings, can be cramped and lacking space.’

Sorry for the crappy translation, but it’s been a hellva long day for me.  Any way, if you happen to run across the book and feel like wasting 106 Danish Krones, well, then  knock yourself out.

Source and photo courtesy of:  Bog.guide.dk

In less than 63 days, HRH Prince William of Wales will marry Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London, England.  Recently, the invitations have been sent out and many royal watchers are wondering who will be invited.  So far, we know that several non-reigning royal houses will attend including the Greek royal family, but we are still uncertain who, from reigning royal houses, received an invite.

According to Billed Bladet, HM Queen Margrethe and HRH Prince Henrik of Denmark recently received their invitation to the British royal wedding and plan to attend.  Interestingly, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark were not invited.  Many royal watchers believed they would be, but sadly that simply isn’t the case.

Source and photo courtesy of: Billed Bladet and Bauer Griffin

On their third day visiting the lovely country of Bahrain, HM Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark had a chance to visit some amazing historical sites including the Ali Burial Mounds.

According to Billed Bladet, Queen Margrethe wandered through the local bazaar whereupon she purchased several items including, “… beautiful fabrics and spices…”

Now, that the official visit to Bahrain is over, the Queen and Prince Henrik held a press conference.  They noted that they had a fantastic time and their hosts and the people of Bahrain were fantastic.

To view photos from the press conference as well as other images please click the link: BT.dk

Source and photo courtesy of: Billed Bladet by Hanne Juul/Billed Bladet

On February 4, 2011, their second day in Bahrain, HM Queen Margrethe and her husband, Prince Henrik, visited Bahrain National Museum (which she actually visited on Day One, but whatever), the Site Museumand Qala’at Al-Bahrainan (an archeology site on the edge of the Persian Gulf), and Barbar Tenple.

One of the first stops during her visit to Bahrain was the National Museum whereupon it was reported that Queen Margrethe, a lover of art, was “thrilled” to see the amazing artwork and artifacts contained in the museum.  According to Billed Bladet, the museum:

… [was] designed by Danish architect Knud Holscher. Here they saw such some old graves, which Professor Glob found in Bahrain back in 1950, which the Queen already knew so much about the subject she that could discuss at length with the talented guides who showed her around.

Afterwards, the royal couple were greeted by 75  Danes living in Bahrain before the royal motorcade drove on to the Site Museum, which was also designed by a Dane, architect Claus Wohlert.

The next day, Her Majesty visited the Site Museumand Qala’at Al-Bahrainan.  The Queen was in awe with what was found at the site location.  According to Billed Bladet, the reigning couple, along with their hosts, “…went up to the Portuguese fort where Professor Glob had his camp when he made excavations in the country.”

Next up for the couple was a visit to Barbar Temple which is being overlooked as well as excavated by Danish archeologists.  The Queen remarked, “I feel pride at the Danish archaeologist behalf. It is a wonderful pioneering work they have done…”

Finally, it was lunch time.  LOL.  Her Majesty, Prince Henrik and their hosts, King Al Khalifa and his first wife, Princess Sabeeka, dined at the palace.

To view the images from Day Two in Bahrain please click the link:  BT.dk

Source and photo courtesy of: Billed Bladet by Hanne Juul/Billed Bladet

Earlier today I noted that HM Queen Margrethe and her husband Prince Henrik of Denmark are visiting Bahrain for the next several days.  At the time there were a limited about of images.

Now, thanks to the Danish magazine, BT.dk, we have a myriad of photos for us to admire.

Please click the link to view: BT.dk and Here

Also, it seems that HM Queen Margrethe has given the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog to HM King Al Khalifa of Bahrain.    :)

Photo courtesy of: Billed Bladet by Hanne Juul/Billed Bladet

HM Queen Margrethe and her husband, Prince Henrik of Denmark are in Bahrain for the next three days for an official state visit.

The royal couple arrived this morning and were warmly welcomed by King Al Khalifa, Deputy Premier Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Culture Minister Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khaifa, Muharraq Governor and Danish Ambassador to Bahrain at the royal palace in Bahrain.

According to the Danish magazine, Billed Bladet:

There was plenty of pomp and circumstance, when Her Majesty Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark arrived to the desert country of Bahrain.

A distinguished honor guard on foot and one on horse was set up in the palace courtyard, and in the minutes before the queen’s arrival exercised the royal orchestra in playing “King Christian.”

King Al Khalifa and Queen of Denmark enjoyed a cup of coffee together before they exchanged gifts.  Then, the two monarchs ate lunch together in a beautiful dining hall decorated with gold.

Later in the afternoon, the official visit continues with stops at two prestigious museums, both designed by Danish architects.

The purpose of the official state visit is to promote bilateral relations. ( Bahrain News Agency)

To read more about today’s event please click the link: Billed Bladet

Source and photo courtesy of: Billed Bladet by Hanne Juul/Billed-Bladet

Well, it’s been quite sometime since I posted anything about HM Queen Margrethe and her husband, HRH Prince Henrik of Denmark.  With that being said, the couple recently attended various events including a birthday party and a winter ball.

According to the Danish magazine, Billed Bladet, the couple attended a birthday party on January 15, 2011 for their dear friend, Birthe Bruun Rasmussen.  According to the reporter, Ulrik Ulriksen:

HM Queen Margrethe  and the Prince Consort attended the birthday party with their closest friends the night before the royal birth of  the Danish twins at Rigshospitalet.

Apparently, the Queen knew late Friday when she made her way to her friend, Birthe Bruun Rasmussen’s 70th birthday bash at the Warehouse 11 in Copenhagen, that Crown Princess Mary was close to giving birth. Maybe that’s why Her Majesty seemed a little tense upon arriving at the party. She knew that the birth could happen at any moment while she and her husband enjoyed the birthday party.

Once she had come inside and was received by the birthday girl and her husband, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen, the Queen seemed more relaxed. In the end, she, along with Prince Henrik, enjoyed the birthday party which had lots of great food, vintage wines.  Speeches were made and music filled the air.  The famous opera singer Gert Henning Jensen sang and later in the evening Peter Kragerup orchestra played for the guests.

Meanwhile, on January 29, 2011, HM Queen Margrethe and HRH Prince Henrik attended a winter ball hosted by their dear friend, Fritz Schur.  The ball took place at the Christian Holm Castle, located in Klampenborg, Denmark.

According to Billed Bladet:

The scene was from the guests’ arrival set for a grand evening with culinary masterpieces and vintage wines. The energetic host took personally greeted all of the guests including Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, who arrived last.

Fritz Schur, who recently was appointed chamberlain, bowed deeply to Queen Margrethe then he escorted the Queen up the grand stairs into the elegant entrance hall where flowers of all colors filled the room.

Both the Queen and Prince Consort looked forward to a long night with many of their close friends who were on the guest list. One of the Schur-festival highlights was the musical performances by some of the country’s best classical musicians ensured.

The beautiful Viennese music was the perfect accompaniment to a gala evening that the royal couple and most other guests he ended only after midnight.

 

To view more photos from both events please click the links: 70th Birthday Party and   Winter Ball

Source and photos courtesy of: Billed Bladet by Jacob Ljørring and Birger Storm

Yup, that’s right!  Denmark’s gluttonous douchebag is at it again.

When not shooting innocent animals for fun, or walking around with his zipper undone, or when he is not eating twelve helpings of greasy fattening foods HRH Prince Henrik of Denmark is insulting people.  You see, the Prince Consort is an insensitive and otherwise unfunny jackass who believes it’s okay to insult his family members.  Why?  Because he can… in his little mind.

So, this afternoon, whilst at another royal hunt at Gribskov in Denmark, a BT reporter asked him about the new Danish royal twins.  With his pudgy face grinning from ear to ear and his Dachshunds on his lap he replied:

The twins are very ugly.  They are very sweet, but I would not call them beautiful.  The two babies look like Princess Isabella.

Um, awkward!

Now, I’m not going to blame his latest gaff simply because he’s elderly.  No, I’m just going to say that he has no manners whatsoever and he should be banned from speaking with the press for at least another 50 years.  To say such a nasty statement about the newborn Danish royal twins is simply… unforgivable.

You can read more at: BT.dk

Source and photo courtesy of:  BT.dk by Jens Norgaard Larsen