Grand Duke Henri & Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Current Events 5: June 2006 - Mar 2008


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Since attachments aren't working for me I will make pics in this post like this. :ermm:

Source of the pics: wort.lu

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I hope MT is doing better. It's odd to think that something would just come up on her so suddenly, hopefully it's nothing serious.
 
The latest edition of Point de Vue tells that Henri is selling off Josephine-Charlotte's jewellery in an auction (if you have extra cash lying around, buy a piece of her!). He also intended to sell the Grünewald forest, but had to give up that one because of public opinion. I wonder if he is running thin on cash?
 
State Visit of the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa to Roussy Le Village close to the Luxembourg Border

from belga



THIONVILLE, EAST OF FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 - Duke Henri and Duchess Maria Teresa during their State visit in Thionville to launch the '2007 Luxembourg, Capital of Culture ' festivities.
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GDss looks great with longer hair! I love that haircut! :flowers:
Isn't this outfit the same as she wore in Dutch state visit? (but without hat)
 
Maria Teresa at the tennis event Fortis Championships at the CK Sportcenter at the Kockelscheuer:

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source: fortischampionships.lu
 
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Her neck must really hurt after all of that. Hardly anyone was at her eye level. She looked wonderful though.
 
I'm not trying to turn this into a "guess how tall the royals are" moment but no one else noticed how short MT was before? :lol:

Anyway, thanks for the pix drimal!
 
This Friday 7 of October there has been an act with reason of the 25 years of marriage of the Grand Dukes, Henri and María Teresa in the Castle of Colmar -Berg, in the page: http://luxembourgroyals.web-log.nl / ,hay new pictures, is very beautiful and romantic.
Of this act I have not found pictures, if you find some you put them, I hope you like pictures
 
In Wort there's an article about a motion to apparently diminish the powers of the Grand Duke and give women the right to success too - it says that Henri supports the latter. I didn't understand too much about the article, but apparently the socialists are behind the motion (which makes sense), and they feel that current legislation from the 19th century is outdated. I never knew the monarch has so much power in the country.
 
lisamaria said:
The latest edition of Point de Vue tells that Henri is selling off Josephine-Charlotte's jewellery in an auction (if you have extra cash lying around, buy a piece of her!). He also intended to sell the Grünewald forest, but had to give up that one because of public opinion. I wonder if he is running thin on cash?
Hmm, I was wondering the same thing. I thought they were supposed to be so rich. I didn't know they owned a forest. How cool.
 
lisamaria said:
The latest edition of Point de Vue tells that Henri is selling off Josephine-Charlotte's jewellery in an auction (if you have extra cash lying around, buy a piece of her!). He also intended to sell the Grünewald forest, but had to give up that one because of public opinion. I wonder if he is running thin on cash?

http://www.lenk.lu/images/sujet/Goosch.lu/Goosch_113.pdf

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they say, that the state paid Prince Félix' gambling debts? does anyone know anything about that?

around Minute 5 they say something about the forrest

http://www.rtl.lu/tele/videoarchiv/index.rtl?clip=/300K/98/2006/10/06/98_20061006_300K.wmv&startyear=2006&startmonth=10&startday=6&stopyear=2006&stopmonth=10&stopday=6&rubrique=98&go=yes&limitStart=0
 
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Tina said:
they say, that the state paid Prince Félix' gambling debts? does anyone know anything about that?
Yes, within the budget frame; meaning that rather than paying the debts off the family's private funds they used the government allowance. Also, the article says that the family pays no taxes and that they have the total private wealth of around 4,67 billion € - GD Jean 1,2 bn, Henri 385 mn, Maria-Teresa 25 mn (it says "Not bad for a Cuban").

Henri has been in power for five years and in that time, it seems, he has pretty much screwed things up :ermm: Not good.
 
Is this article reffering to their son prince Felix?
LisaMaria, what did you mean by Henri has skrewed things up?
 
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Samm said:
Is this article reffering to their son prince Felix?
LisaMaria, what did you mean by Henri has skrewed things up?

Yes, son Felix.

What I mean is that the current GD has faced a lot of heavy criticism that his father was never subjected to; for what I have gathered from the media, many of his actions have been scrutinised by the politicians, who have questioned his position as the leader of the country - the odd adventure with the Grünewald forest, the sale of Josephine-Charlotte's jewellery, the financial troubles, the sudden urge to change the constitution to limit the monarch's powers and his budged, Louis' baby and marriage, the assumed trouble in his marriage, all sorts of things have happened within a short period of time and that has undermined his position as a leader. A little while ago the prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, defended the DG and announced that there is no ground for criticism and that Henri has done everything by the book. By him screwing up I meant simply that he hasn't managed to stay above and out of this kind of controversy the way his father apparently managed - when he stepped down, Jucker said he has ruled without error, without flaw.

But I guess it is natural that every monarch's position is evaluated every once and a while and he will pull through. But if this latest about Felix is true, things don't look sunny. I have gathered there is a small but loud republican fraction in Luxembourg, and they are definitely having a field day with this :neutral:[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
 
lisamaria said:
Yes, son Felix.

What I mean is that the current GD has faced a lot of heavy criticism that his father was never subjected to; for what I have gathered from the media, many of his actions have been scrutinised by the politicians, who have questioned his position as the leader of the country - the odd adventure with the Grünewald forest, the sale of Josephine-Charlotte's jewellery, the financial troubles, the sudden urge to change the constitution to limit the monarch's powers and his budged, Louis' baby and marriage, the assumed trouble in his marriage, all sorts of things have happened within a short period of time and that has undermined his position as a leader. A little while ago the prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, defended the DG and announced that there is no ground for criticism and that Henri has done everything by the book. By him screwing up I meant simply that he hasn't managed to stay above and out of this kind of controversy the way his father apparently managed - when he stepped down, Jucker said he has ruled without error, without flaw.

But I guess it is natural that every monarch's position is evaluated every once and a while and he will pull through. But if this latest about Felix is true, things don't look sunny. I have gathered there is a small but loud republican fraction in Luxembourg, and they are definitely having a field day with this :neutral:

You have some good points. But time's have also changed a bit since Jean was in charge. These days it's more common for the media to come up with any type of rumor they can to smudge even the most clean cut person's image. And also when it comes to the bit with Louis's baby only 8% of women are still a virgin on their wedding day. When Jean was in charge it was more like 45% or more.
 
Budapest, HUNGARY: Grand Duke Henri of Luxemburg (L), President of the National Assembly of Hungary, Katalin Szili ©, and Belgian Crown Prince Philippe ® listen to the Hungarian anthem in the State Opera House of Budapest downtown 22 October 2006.

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A few things got mixed up here
The “news” about Felix gambling is more than 70 years old.
It was the husband of Grand Duke Henri´s grandmother Charlotte, Felix de Bourbon-Parma, who dealt with gambling problems back in the 1930th. The state supported the Grand Ducal family back then by endowing them with the Grünwald forest. Drimal explained the story here.
Henri´s son Felix really isn’t a gambler and the state didn’t have to pay his debts.

As for the change of the constitution: I guess it’s about time to adapt the constitution. The Grand Duke has the constitutional right to wage a war and to suspend the parliament. This forced some criticism (e.g. in UN circles) since it’s not really in agreement with democratic standards.
 
i must say, that i'm kinda glad that the family's "dirty laundry", so to speak, is being aired. it simply shows that everyone, whether royal or not, has problems. in relation to PR, it helps them seem closer to the people, which, in political terms, could be useful. afterall, that's what makes a country... its people. the "leader" merely puts a face on the government.
 
johann said:
A few things got mixed up here. The “news” about Felix gambling is more than 70 years old.

I think things were kind of purposedly mixed up - I re-read the article telling about the constitutional changes ect. and if one doesn't know the story about the old Felix, one would automatically think the current Prince Felix. Was it purposedly written that way? Dunno - anyhow it looks like very bad journalism.

johann said:
As for the change of the constitution: I guess it’s about time to adapt the constitution. The Grand Duke has the constitutional right to wage a war and to suspend the parliament. This forced some criticism (e.g. in UN circles) since it’s not really in agreement with democratic standards.

I remember reading a statement of sorts given by the UN that said that women's position in Luxembourg should be promoted in all areas, not just in the succession. It has been noted for example in some Finnish how-to-do-business-in-EU manuals that women are still practically non-existing in Lux economics and that the attitudes are just a wee bit on the conservative side on the matter. So that seems like a wider issue :ermm:

I thought though how literally are those rights the GD has taken? If he wanted to got to war against, say, Belgium, would there be any chance of that actually happening?
 
Following the message's the Grand Duke must be in the Middle East... ( so good friends from Luxembourg told me so)
 
LaPlusBelle said:
Are we allowed to link to his files again?

Yes, you can link to the files, you just can't post the actual photo in question here.
 
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