Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, Current Events Part 4 (May 2007 - August 2010)

[iceflower]

Prince Henrik collecting oysters at Roemoe together with friends
including Elenore and Valentin Sibbern from Norway, Denmark,
August 8, 2010.
Looking at pic 5 Henrik seems the one expecting twins..


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[Muhler]

Thank you, Iceflower

Summary of article in Billed Bladet #32, 2010.
Prinsen af Rømø - The Prince of Rømø.
Written by Ken Richter.

A decidely pregnant looking Prince Henrik visited the wadden sea around the island of Rømø at the south west coast of Jutland, not far from Schackenborg.
Here he was collecting oysters with some friends. (*) And a small feats was prepared in a tent.
Henrik is very fond of this part of DK. (**) He exclaimed two years ago: "Here I could live for the rest of my life".
This year he said: "I enjoy to come out to all nooks and crannies of the country, outside the big cities".
QMII's LiW added: "It's almost as when I gather mushrooms with the Queen at Trend. You get so preoccupied that you almost forget everything else and you do not keep an eye on where you are going at all. All the time a new mushroom turn up - in this case oysters - a bit further ahead and you just want to bring that home as well".
Henrik was here last time the day before the wedding between Joachim and our Marie with his sister, who is a nun. He said anumber of local islanders: "It's been a fantastic day and I hope I will some other time have the opportunity to give my family this utterly unique experience".

(*) Not for the first time. I remember an article a couple of years ago where he was absolutely enthusiastic about these oysters.

(**) He is not alone. When the tide is low you can walk for kilometres across the wadden sea. It's completely flat and the sky and horizon is endlessly far away. There are a multitude of birds there! Birds you won't see outside the wadden sea.
But, everything has a price. Each year cows, sheep and tourists are caught by the tide. You think you have plenty of time to walk to higher ground, but you don't realise how far out you are and suddenly you have to run. The water is cold, you won't make it to shore before hypothermia sets in.

Originally Posted by iceflower

Prince Henrik collecting oysters at Roemoe together with friends
including Elenore and Valentin Sibbern from Norway, Denmark,
August 8, 2010.
Looking at pic 5 Henrik seems the one expecting twins..


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[wartenberg7]

I´m a bit surprised about the small number of danish royal members who attended this funeral! No C Prince, no Pr. Joachim or Prince Consort...? I thought the Countess was a memeber of the danish royal family! I was not too surprised about Princesses Mary and Marie as they learned to know Ruth at a very late stage in their lives - but the others, very strange. I don´t mean this as a criticism, it´s just something I perceive.

[Muhler]

There don't appear to be a dog/pet thread, so I'll post this here:

BT has an article about Henrik's dachshund Evita: http://www.bt.dk/royale/prins-henriks-hund...dt-til-psykolog

It got a lot of attention the last time she bit a guardsman. Not least in view of the attention regarding other dogs biting people in the public.
Anyway, the court has now confirmed that the dog is seeing experts in order to establish why she bites people and to teach her not to.

- About time, if you ask me!
Evita has bitten way too many people and I fear she has learned that biting people is acceptable, so it may be too late. But al least something is done.
It is so annoying when dog owners, in this case Henrik, do not live up to their responsibility. If the owner cannot or will not control their dog, well too bad, you should loose your dog, one way or another.
Get a budgie instead.

[Maura724]

How many times has Evita bitten someone? I know I've heard at least a couple stories about one of the royal dogs biting - is it always Evita?

I hope something can be done about it - it's so irritating that this keeps happening. It should be preventable, because it's not normal, standard dog behavior to constantly bite.

[Muhler]

Originally Posted by Maura724

How many times has Evita bitten someone? I know I've heard at least a couple stories about one of the royal dogs biting - is it always Evita?

I hope something can be done about it - it's so irritating that this keeps happening. It should be preventable, because it's not normal, standard dog behavior to constantly bite.

The last one was the sixth or seventh time, I believe.

Yes, something ought to have been done long ago. But it's not so much the dog as the owner who needs training.

[Maura724]

SIX OR SEVEN TIMES?!?!?!?! I knew it had happened before, but I would have guessed that this was perhaps the third incident. That's ridiculous that something is just now being done about it - there's no excuse for a dog to bite that many times. And yes as you say Muhler it is really more the owner's fault. "There are no bad dogs, only bad owners."

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally Posted by wartenberg7

I´m a bit surprised about the small number of danish royal members who attended this funeral! No C Prince, no Pr. Joachim or Prince Consort...? I thought the Countess was a memeber of the danish royal family! I was not too surprised about Princesses Mary and Marie as they learned to know Ruth at a very late stage in their lives - but the others, very strange. I don´t mean this as a criticism, it´s just something I perceive.

What makes you think that the late Countess Ruth was a member of the royal family ?
She was cloes friends with Queen Margrethe and the Queen attend the funeral together with Queen Sonja,CP Haakon and Princess Martha Louise of Norway..

[wartenberg7]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

What makes you think that the late Countess Ruth was a member of the royal family ?
She was cloes friends with Queen Margrethe and the Queen attend the funeral together with Queen Sonja,CP Haakon and Princess Martha Louise of Norway..

Wasn´t she? I thought all the Rosenborgs were distant relatives? And Ruth WAS living on the Fredensborg estate!

[iceflower]

Time to close this thread!
The new one can be found here!