princess olga said:
1.The reality of living with Joachim is living on a de facto farm, no matter how charming, is in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere in Denmark (which in itself is the middle of nowhere depending on your outlook--just my opinion! Nothing against lovely Denmark, a wonderful place to visit!)
Joachim <is> a farmer, by profession. AND he spends most of his time at Schakenborg, not at his apartment in Copenhagen.
1. City women
2. who, on top of this, would feel isolated enough moving to a completely other country and culture in and by itself, let alone moving to the middle of nowhere.
How would that work in practise? Marie spending her days raising kids in the middle of nowhere, Denmark, where she has no friends and nothing to do besides those kids? I think that <that> was a huge factor in the brakeup with Alexandra if you ask me!
I mean, let's say Marie would move to Copenhagen and marry J. And let's say she'd get a job in Copenhagen. That would mean, for them, that <she> would be spending her days in the city, working, and <he> would be spending his days some 300 miles away on the farm.
Well I think Joachim has maybe learnt a bit or two from his last marriage, Marie has visited him in Denmark several times now, and obiously been introduced to his friends, they have known each other longer than Joachim and Alexandra did before they got engaged. And Joachim dont just run the farm (I gather he also ha some help there so he does not have to do it all himself
), just because he does not get the press attention that Mary does for her duties, one could just look at the royal agenda and see that he does quite alot of royal duties which also means he spends quite some time in Copenhagen
http://kongehuset.dk/aktuelt/kalender/afholdte/ He has also presided business trips abroad lately, which with Maries education could be something she would be interested in joining as well.
Besides Denmark is not that big, the distances are not that huge, she could still live at Schackenborg and go from there to many of her duties, not all royal work has to be performed in Copenhagen, Im pretty sure they like to see some royals in the rest of the country as well
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Marie seems like a pretty easy going girl, and yes, a bit of a blabber mouth, and maybe also a little naive, who does not seem to worry to much about giving the apprance of the pefetcly behaved royal Princesss-in-waiting, maybe that is what he needs now after having spent ten year with Alexandra who was hailed as perfect perfection from beginning to end, it might not be so easy to live with or be compared to all the time
BTW is Schackenborg mainly a grain and vegetables farm? It is not season for this all the time, so some part of the year they could probably spend more time in the city if they were so inclined
Well we wil have to wait and see, it is not possible to judge peoples character on the image that is given in the papers and magazines, the press can pretty much paint the image they want.
Heck! I want to live in rural!
