Can Constantine and Anne-Marie's children all speak Danish?

[kelly9480]

It doesn't matter whether Ingrid gave them money, they were living in accomodation paid for by the Danish taxpayers. They weren't entitled to that after Anne-Marie surrendered her place in line to the throne. If Ingrid had set them up in a private house, where they lived off their money and Ingrid's private fortune, that would have been one thing, but they were living in a residence reserved for the royal house (that Anne-Marie was no longer a part of) and paid for by the taxpayers.

[kelly9480]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

Does that mean that you don´t think she is entitled to vissiting her olde country any more?

No. That means she's not entitled to live off the Danish taxpayers' money. She can visit Denmark all she likes, and when she visits, she can stay in the palace. But they weren't visiting Denmark. They were living there. And she can't live in a palace reserved for a royal house she's no longer a member of. If she had moved into a private residence, paid for from private funds, no one could have complained because, as controversial as Constantine was, it would not have been a public matter. The moment they moved into the royal palace, it became a public matter, and the public made it clear they didn't want to pay for the Greeks.

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally Posted by kelly9480

No. That means she's not entitled to live off the Danish taxpayers' money. She can visit Denmark all she likes, and when she visits, she can stay in the palace. But they weren't visiting Denmark. They were living there. And she can't live in a palace reserved for a royal house she's no longer a member of. If she had moved into a private residence, paid for from private funds, no one could have complained because, as controversial as Constantine was, it would not have been a public matter. The moment they moved into the royal palace, it became a public matter, and the public made it clear they didn't want to pay for the Greeks.

And you know this from..?

[kelly9480]

Originally Posted by KikkiB

What about other royal guests, family or no family, they also "benefit" from the Danish people's tax money. If we should only "pay for" the royal families living in the specific countries they are royal family to, it would not be any fun, because it will mean that they can't travel anywhere, in order to not be "a burden" to any other country's people's tax money.

There seems to be a failure to differentiate between visiting another royal house, and living with another royal house. When a foreign royal visits, they usually stay with the resident royals. When they move to another country, they don't.

For example, when Haakon was studying in London for a year, he stayed in a private flat, paid for by the Norwegian royal house. When he visited London last October, he was on an official visit and stayed in royal accomodation, paid for by the British royal house.

[kelly9480]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

And you know this from..?

Are you honestly going to try to deny that Anne-Marie and her family moved in with her mother? Are you honestly going to try to deny that comments were made about her living off the Danes? Do you honestly believe the Danes would have complained about her living in private accomodation? Constantine may have been an embarrassment, but private living arrangements aren't the public's business.

[Sean.~]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

Sean I woud like to know wher you are living in the world?
I know that you think that Annemarie and Konstantin was living on behaf of the Danes and that they was supported by the tax,BUT did you know that they recivede money from the late queen Ingrid when they was "living" her in Denmark?
The money was not from the Danish taxpayers BUT from the inheritance queen Ingrid had from her farther and her great parrents in England and Sweden.

If you go back and read my post you will see I wrote 'the notion/optics of them benefiting from the Danish taxpayers whether in reality or in perception'.

The fact is that they lived under a roof that was maintained with $$ from the Danish taxpayer. No matter how much you change your argument it doesn't change the fact that it wasn't politically savvy for them to live in Denmark for the reasons elucidated previously.

[ldt20]

The official website of the Greek Royal family states that at home they speak Greek. The three older children speak Greek fluently and that the two youngest are learning very quickly.

You can read this under Queen Anne-Marie's profile

http://www.greekroyalfamily.org/index.cfm?get=family

[Daytona]

Konstantinos,Pavlos and Nikolaos speak Greek.I think Nikolaos speaks Greek very fluently compared to Konstantinos and Pavlos from what i understand from interviews.Konstantinos is using older Greek and not modern something i utterly approve,from when he was reignining and addressing to people or parliament but he doesnt speak as a native,he confuses some words.Anna Maria knows a few greek words in a foreign accent.

[Piaa]

Pavlos greek is excellent esp since he did not grow up in Greece.

[greatlakescounty]

everyone gets sooooooooo touchy. please keep this enjoyable for all and lets put our ego's aside. thank you

[Toledo]

Originally Posted by greatlakescounty

everyone gets sooooooooo touchy. please keep this enjoyable for all and lets put our ego's aside. thank you

I have to say that for your first post in here you just made me laugh! :)
Thanks...and welcome! :p

[Philippe Egalite']

Originally Posted by Daytona

Konstantinos,Pavlos and Nikolaos speak Greek.I think Nikolaos speaks Greek very fluently compared to Konstantinos and Pavlos from what i understand from interviews.Konstantinos is using older Greek and not modern something i utterly approve,from when he was reignining and addressing to people or parliament but he doesnt speak as a native,he confuses some words.Anna Maria knows a few greek words in a foreign accent.

Let be fair Daytona. There are hardly 5-10,000 (barely 1:1000) Greeks from within Greece and all over the world who can speak decent and grammatically correct Greek. These people come from middle and upper-middle class background and have usually attended such schools as Peiramatikon, Varvakeion, Athens College and Moraitis School. Over 90% of Greeks nowadays, even in Athens, speak a barbaric Greek, with a peasant accent. In all fairness, former king Constantine speaks Greek well or well enough for a person who was not intellectually inclined (as he acknowledges frequently) and had only high-school education.