Danish New Year Courts: 2004, 2006-2013

[Muhler]

Originally Posted by Marika86

Another photogallery

From "MSN Starlounge"
De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg | Starlounge

Thank you, Marika

A few details I'd like to point out:

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 5 | Starlounge
Enjoy the way our Marie is looking at her Joachim. - As befits an adoring wife.

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 7 | Starlounge

Compare the pic above with this of the Regent Couple:
De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 22 | Starlounge

Notice how Joachim and la Marie are standing. Marie stay at Joachim's right side as is both proper and correct.
QMII and PH merely turned around on their heels when they posed.
I like it when things are done with style.

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 14 | Starlounge
It's nice to see Frederik genuinely delighted. And having served in the army myself, I must nevertheless admit that the navy uniform is by far the smartest looking of all the branches.
I think Frederik is looking at his feet, for whatever reason, as there is nothing in front of him but Amalienborg Square.

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 28 | Starlounge
The guard has turned out, complete with the regimental colour. The red tunic combined with the white cord, connecting the bandollier and bearskin caps is gala-1. The finest uniform.
Their rifles are the stripped down version of the current standard rifle (M95), with a short magazine, for aestetic reasons. They have live ammunition in their rifles.

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 30 | Starlounge
The honour guard in the collonnade, where the cars with the guests stop. The guardsmen here are wearing the dark greatcoat, which is worn in cold weather.

De kongelige til Nytårskur på Amalienborg - Billede 31 | Starlounge
Inside the sentry boxes is a red cloak, used in very poor weather and sometimes in rain.
When the guards are relieved, the serving NCO always check the sentry box, to see whether a girlfriend should be hiding behind the cloak. A little tradition of the regiment.
The sentry boxes always carry the monogram of the reigning monarch.
A sentry always has the (knife-)bayonet fixed.

[Hendrik-Jan77]

Prince Henrik left his zipper open...
How embarrassing!!

[Benedikte]

I noticed when I was watching the arrivals on tv, that Joachim was swinging his right arm 45 degrees in moore than one occasion.

A coincidence?

Sone one who is much hung on formalities will appriciate this I'm sure. :)

[Benedikte]

Originally Posted by Muhler

I notice that the Foreign Minister and head of the Conservative Party, Lene Espersen, was late. - Well, she's managed to put her feet wrong all year, so why not start the new year in the same manner?
She is the talking cleavage... sorry, that's her nickname. She is the lady seen talking behind the reporter.

When naming the Foreing Minister of Denmark a talking cleavage you are naming your self a male chauvinist

[Kataryn]

Originally Posted by Muhler

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a distinction in English for the Danish words: Kur and Hof.
This is a New Year "kur", which means: to court someone, in this case the DRF. - That's where you are recieved by the DRF and greet them.
Now, the word "hof" can have two meanings, depending on how it's used. Usually you translate the word "hof" to court. I.e. the royal household, complete with LiW's and what not.
However, "holde hof" is also translated to court, but that meaning is very different. To "holde hof" is when the monarch precides over his/her court. I don't even believe that is done anymore. Not since Absolutism was abolished in 1848.
Do you get my meaning? - We are talking about very old expressions here.

There is the expression "to hold court" in English meaning jour fixes where the king surrounded himself with his courtiers and advisors while the queen sat with her ladies. On these occasions young people could be introduced to the king and queen by sponsors who already had the ear of the monarch and his spouse.

[FasterB]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Yes thank.But at last the queen and Prince then drive around the Place. They could also drive along the Colonnade which would be even shorter.

Well, they could, but that would be against the way to drive. Even at Amalienborg Square one have to drive in the right side of the road as you do in Denmark

[Muhler]

Originally Posted by Kataryn

There is the expression "to hold court" in English meaning jour fixes where the king surrounded himself with his courtiers and advisors while the queen sat with her ladies. On these occasions young people could be introduced to the king and queen by sponsors who already had the ear of the monarch and his spouse.

Thank you, for your explanation, Kataryn.

Originally Posted by Benedikte

When naming the Foreing Minister of Denmark a talking cleavage you are naming your self a male chauvinist

Thank you.

The Talking Cleavage is in fact the less than flattering nickname of the Foreign Minister, Lene Espersen. - Which I also pointed out...

[Muhler]

Originally Posted by Hendrik-Jan77

Prince Henrik left his zipper open...
How embarrassing!!

Oh well, he mooned at us last summer, so this is nothing.
I think it was more likely that the zipper opened on its own. That's after all preferable to the trousers "opening" elsewhere, right?

Without Prince Henrik the photographers wouldn't have as many great photos and we wouldn't be entertained as much.

[TLLK]

Thank you for the information Muhler. I know very little about the Danish court so I found your post very interesting.

[Duke of Marmalade]

Originally Posted by Hendrik-Jan77

Prince Henrik left his zipper open...
How embarrassing!!

http://www.hola.com/imagenes//realez...n-reyes--z.jpg

http://www.hola.com/realeza/casa_danesa/2011010250541/recepcion/nuevo/dinamarca/1/

[Benedikte]

Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade

http://www.hola.com/imagenes//realez...n-reyes--z.jpg

http://www.hola.com/realeza/casa_danesa/2011010250541/recepcion/nuevo/dinamarca/1/

The flyer is open.

Oh dear.

I have just been reading an interview book about the prince consort Henrik by Stephanie Surrugue.

It is a very good book.

Oddly enough it states that a french magazine pointed out at the engagement with QMII, that Henry Montpezat wasn't a nobleman, but it turned out to be a mistake.

But it is contradicting a previous book where he is telling that he is not a nobleman.

Some secondcousin 100 years ago forgot to deliver a paper and lost the right to be a nobleman. But if the paper had been delivered his family wouldn't have been member of the nobility anyway. It was another branch of the family.

[Duke of Marmalade]

henri being noble, well, its at least a bit shady. he certainly wasnt "A class noble", rather "being made" noble because his family was somehow in the grey area noble - not noble.

[Benedikte]

I feel pity with the prince consort Henrik.

In some way he is too concerned with titels.

Besides his grey area nobility, he also wanted to change his titel from prince to prince consort some years ago.

It is difficult for me to understand.

[ashelen]

I wonder if Mary was watching the event from TV?

[Aotearoagal]

Originally Posted by Fürstin Taxis

Sorry, but Frederik looks abysmal

Sorry to be blunt, but I don't think it is going to help Fred to deny that he turns up to occasions looking drunk or even stoned. His eyes are red here - and if that's the result of too much drinking, rather than getting stoned - that doesn't make it OK. It's an abuse of a privileged position not to take it seriously enough to NOT overindulge ahead of an event like this. Remember, this is Frederik AT WORK. If you or I turned up at work looking like this, there would be hell to pay.

It should be not just noticed, but discussed. I think Mary has in many ways been a real saviour for Fred - but if he's still looking trashed at an event six years into his marriage and with two more kids on the way, there's something seriously wrong with his attitude. I say: grow up and face reality, Crown Prince Frederik!

[Sternchen]

How do you know the reason for his look?

[eliz]

i would'n infer anything about anybody's look depending just on pics, which fix eternally the expression a person had for just one second.
all the more so as judging somebody's appearence is often a matter of personal taste.
i, for one, have found him smiling a lot. my guess was he had spent a very good new year's night. he seemed to me happily tired, if you get what i mean. but i am very conscious it is only a guess and that i absolutely do not know how things went in reality.
as for mary being a saviour under many respect, i am inclned to believe it, bc both frederick and the queen have hinted at this.

[nwinther]

Originally Posted by Aotearoagal

Sorry to be blunt, but I don't think it is going to help Fred to deny that he turns up to occasions looking drunk or even stoned. His eyes are red here - and if that's the result of too much drinking, rather than getting stoned - that doesn't make it OK. It's an abuse of a privileged position not to take it seriously enough to NOT overindulge ahead of an event like this. Remember, this is Frederik AT WORK. If you or I turned up at work looking like this, there would be hell to pay.

It should be not just noticed, but discussed. I think Mary has in many ways been a real saviour for Fred - but if he's still looking trashed at an event six years into his marriage and with two more kids on the way, there's something seriously wrong with his attitude. I say: grow up and face reality, Crown Prince Frederik!

He could be having a cold or some other illness. The flu is rife in Denmark at the moment. Would you chastise him for putting in an effort too? He could have sneezed a couple of times (from a cold or otherwise) - my eyes waters when that happens. As someone pointed out, there's plenty of bright lights, which can make your eyes water. There are many reasons why a person can have red or sore eyes - smoking pot or heavy drinking aren't the only two.

[Aotearoagal]

Originally Posted by eliz

i would'n infer anything about anybody's look depending just on pics, which fix eternally the expression a person had for just one second.

I agree, and I never base a judgement on a single picture. But there are about 20 pictures of Fred at that event and he does not look sober. His eyes are red - not tiredness red - and the expression on his face isn't just happy, it's "merry". Fred is a very seasoned drinker - and I honestly think it doesn't help to make excuses for him. He is also thin. Of course this is conjecture, but no-one who is straight and sober looks like that!

[eliz]

i understand what you are saying and also - if I can add that - i appreciate that you are saying it out of concern and not out of spite or just for trashing him. i guess that this is the way to discuss things.

just two things:
one, as said before, the anti-monarchic media or the scandal tabloid would surely point out such an issue, if only to sell more copies?; i mean, not even a headline about new year's binge, when in the past they tried to sell the story of a supposed betrayal on frederik's part based on a picture of him on a yatch with another woman next to him just leaving out of the picture all the other guests?
second: drunhard people tend to develop a body which is the opposite of frederik's - which is, not thin at all, especially in the belly, no matter how many abds you work out in the gym. on the contrary, he was able to close that uniform full of bottons from the chest down without it stretching anywhere. so i wouldn't know.