Another positive article from TV2 about Harry:
Dansk veteran om prins Harrys indsats: - Det er helt fantastisk - TV 2
Having served himself in Afghanistan, and especially having served in the capacity where he aboard an helicopter helped secure an evacuation zone has in particular earned the respect and almost endearment of (in this case) Danish veterans.
One of them is Maurice Lindegaard Manuel, who while serving in Afghanistan stepped on a mine and lost a leg beneath the knee.
Maurice Lindegaard is the man whose head Harry is seen kissing.
He explains: (About having being dedicated to helping veterans) "It's alpha and Omega (means everything) and totally fantastic that he use his position in society to create attention about us".
After having completed the first part of his treatment Maurice Lindegaard back in 2014 took part in the Invictus Games: "The Invictus Games came at a time whenI was about to rediscover myself and create a new identity. I went along and took part in both wheelchair-basket, wheelchair-rugby and calisthenics. It was an utterly fantastic experience. It was a way to prove to myself and those around me that I was on the way back".
Harry will today visit Svanemølle Barracks in Copenhagen together with Joachim, and here they will meet veterans as well as the head of the Danish branch of Invictus, Commodore Peter Tolderlund, who says: "He is something very special for us, because he has been to war on equal footing with other soldiers. Everybody are wild about him - myself included. He is really a great person".
He adds that the sports Harry has inspired people to take up has had a great significance: "We have several who have been able to stop using medication or who have recovered from an addiction. Through sports you can find a way back to life and back to the society through your physical or psychological scars".
That is something Maurice Lindegaard has been through himself. At the Invictus Games in 2014, it was Harry who presented the medals to Maurice Lindegaard: "He's got both feet firmly planted on the ground. He has been deployed himself and the gives him an understanding for what we have been through. There is a camaraderie between soldiers, which means that he is very accessible and I am in no doubt at all that we war-veterans are a core-issue that is very, very dear to his heart".
While it is a total given that Harry will afford Queen Margrethe the honour and respect due to her, I can't help wondering if when he is introduced to Queen Margrethe he smiles and thinks 'what a difference a generation makes' when the Queen is often called Queen Daisy by her people and the British stiff upper lip ensured that his grandmother was never called by hers. The closest they came to a pet name for a royal was "The Queen Mum". 'Daisy' just makes her seem a little closer.
