{"id":81730,"date":"2022-09-29T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/denmarks-queen-margrethe-strips-grandchildren-of-prince-and-princess-titles\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:49:05","slug":"denmarks-queen-margrethe-strips-grandchildren-of-prince-and-princess-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/denmarks-queen-margrethe-strips-grandchildren-of-prince-and-princess-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark&#8217;s Queen Margrethe strips grandchildren of prince and princess titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has stripped four of her eight grandchildren of their royal titles, as well as \u201cHis\/Her Highness\u201d titles \u2014 a decision that has rocked the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>The children of the Queen&#8217;s second son, Prince Joachim;  Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20, Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10 will now be referred to as either \u201cHis Excellency Count of Monpezat\u201d or \u201cHer Excellency Countess of Monpezat\u201d starting on January 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Joachim is the sixth in line to the Danish throne.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Margrethe II, 82, who is now the longest-reigning monarch following Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s death, announced she was removing the royal titles in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-15\">\u201cWith her decision, Her Majesty The Queen wishes to create the framework for the four grandchildren to be able to shape their own lives to a much greater extent without being limited by the special considerations and duties that a formal affiliation with the Royal House of Denmark as an institution involves,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Queen Margrethe&#8217;s grandchildren from son Prince Joachim will no longer be named Prince\/Princess.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-11T133414Z_681401995_RC2YEW9BODKP_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Denmark's Prince Joachim's four children Nikolai, Felix, Athena, and Henrik were confused about the action from Queen Margrethe.\" class=\"wp-image-24051290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-11T133414Z_681401995_RC2YEW9BODKP_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-11T133414Z_681401995_RC2YEW9BODKP_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-11T133414Z_681401995_RC2YEW9BODKP_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-11T133414Z_681401995_RC2YEW9BODKP_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Denmark&#8217;s Prince Joachim&#8217;s four children Nikolai, Felix, Athena, and Henrik were surprised by the action by Queen Margrethe.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer Majesty has decided that, as of 1 January 2023, His Royal Highness Prince Joachim&#8217;s descendants can only use their titles as counts and countess of Monpezat, as the titles of prince and princess that they have held up until now will be discontinued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Danish monarch defended her decision telling reporters, \u201cIt is a consideration I have had for quite a long time and I think it will be good for them in their future.  That is the reason,\u201d according to Hello!  Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Margrethe said removing her grandchildren&#8217;s prince and princess titles will enable them to \u201cshape their own lives to a much greater extent without being limited by the special considerations and duties that a formal affiliation with the Royal House of Denmark as an institution involves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the news wasn&#8217;t well-received by all members of the royal family.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-4\">Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg \u2014 the mother of Prince Nikolai and Prince Felix, who are set to lose their royal titles, said she was \u201cconfused\u201d by the news.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-12T063006Z_405851584_RC28FW92C67N_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Crown Prince Frederik, his wife Princess Mary, and their four children will keep their royal titles.\" class=\"wp-image-24051306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-12T063006Z_405851584_RC28FW92C67N_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-12T063006Z_405851584_RC28FW92C67N_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-12T063006Z_405851584_RC28FW92C67N_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/2022-09-12T063006Z_405851584_RC28FW92C67N_RTRMADP_3_DENMARK-ROYALS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Crown Prince Frederik, his wife Princess Mary, and their four children will keep their royal titles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are saddened and in shock,\u201d Prince Joachim&#8217;s ex-wife said in a statement from her press advisor Helle von Wildenrath L\u00f8vgreen, according to Danish magazine <em>Se og Hor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes like a bolt from the blue.  The children feel ostracized.  They cannot understand why their identity is being taken away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-6\">No changes were made to the titles of Prince Frederik, the heir to the throne, as well as his wife, Princess Mary, and their children \u2014 Prince Christian, 16, Princess Isabella, 15, and 11-year-old twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-23\">The palace said \u201cthe Queen&#8217;s decision is in line with similar adjustments that other royal houses have made in various ways in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen Margrethe&#8217;s decision echoes the drama that&#8217;s recently unfolded within the British royal family, which has ended a series of back-to-back scandals over the years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1198421581.jpg?resize=1024%2C755&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The British royal family has seen a number of scandals in recent years, including Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's decision to leave the Firm.\" class=\"wp-image-24051695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1198421581.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1198421581.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1198421581.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>The British royal family has seen a number of scandals in recent years, including Meghan Markle and Prince Harry&#8217;s decision to leave the Firm.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most recently, the late Queen Elizabeth II \u2014 who died on Sept.  8 aged 96 \u2014 made the decision not to give Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s kids His and Her Royal Highness titles \u2014 leaving the exiled couple once again \u201cfurious\u201d at the royal family over the snub.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have run high between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the rest of the royal family after their move \u2014 dubbed \u201cMegxit\u201d by the press \u2014 sparked a major rift.<\/p>\n<p>The rift was only exacerbated by their decision to trash the Firm in a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey early last year after they packed up and moved across the pond to Montecito, California.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-544081426.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The late Queen Elizabeth II famously stripped Prince Andrew of his royal and military titles.\" class=\"wp-image-24051694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-544081426.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-544081426.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-544081426.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-544081426.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>The late Queen Elizabeth II famously stripped Prince Andrew of his royal and military titles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Markle, 41, and her husband had a contentious relationship with the royal family following their decision to step back from royal duties in 2020. They subsequently moved to Montecito, California.<\/p>\n<p>Another scandal that rocked the British royal family was the late monarch&#8217;s decision to strip Prince Andrew of his royal and military titles after being disgraced over his friendship with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>He was forced to quit public life in 2019 after a trainwreck BBC interview in which he claimed to have never met his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre and defended his friendship with convicted sex offender Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, he settled a sex abuse argument with Giuffr<em>to<\/em> for a reported $12 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has stripped four of her eight grandchildren of their royal titles, as well as \u201cHis\/Her Highness\u201d titles \u2014 a decision that has rocked the royal family. The children of the Queen&#8217;s second son, Prince Joachim; Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20, Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10 will now be referred to as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/denmarks-queen-margrethe-strips-grandchildren-of-prince-and-princess-titles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denmark&#8217;s Queen Margrethe strips grandchildren of prince and princess titles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[27409,46,1104],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83692,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/denmarks-prince-nikolai-shocked-confused-to-be-stripped-of-royal-title-by-queen-margrethe\/","url_meta":{"origin":81730,"position":0},"title":"Denmark&#8217;s Prince Nikolai &#8216;shocked, confused&#8217; to be stripped of royal title by Queen Margrethe","date":"October 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Prince Nikolai of Denmark is \u201cshocked\u201d over his grandmother Queen Margrethe II's decision to strip four of her grandkids of their royal titles. 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