You are welcome, Polyesco.
And here is what King WA had to say about his children in the interview.
After praising Queen Maxima and talking about what a good team the two of them are...
Q: You (formal you) that Queen Maxima is also an important team player but surely you need time for a family life and being parents to three daughters. How do you manage to make that work?
WA: "24 hours isn't enough, but that's life. We face the same challenges as any other mother and father with a busy job and a career struggle with every single day. But we put a lot of energy into the role as parents, when we can.
We make sure to have real quality time when we are together. But just like with all other children they come with the bill themselves and we are most likely certain to be punished for it later on if we haven't done well enough".
Eleven year old Amalia are now being prepared for her future role. It's natural to prepare her, says AW even though it still isn't that specific a preparation yet but both he and Queen Maxima talk very openly about all sorts of things and as children mirror themselves in their parents all three of them are aware about how things are. That includes Alexia and Ariane too who have their ears turned on at the dinner table, where the family talk about many things and in that way prepare the daughters.
They are well aware that they grow up in an environment that is different from most. But Amalie is not prepared more than the others as such, but she listens so that she knows where she is.
"But it's important for us that they during their time in school are allowed to develop as humans and live as normal as possible, so far away from the public glare as possible. It is all important to know yourself as a person, before you take on a public office. If you haven't had the chance to develop, experience yourself and make mistakes in life in a protected environment, then you become unhappy and you will not be able to, or be in a good position to perform up to your responsibility in the best possible way.
And that becomes more and more difficult. Both because the attention grows bigger and bigger and the speech with which news, photos and such like is spread increase, so that's why it's a big challenge.
That's why it's our responsibility as parents to create a safe and loving home where they can grown up as the persons they are and get to know themselves. Only then can they serve the country".
Trine Larsen is a pretty good interviewer.
It's an interesting experiment we see these years here in Europe!
Wonder which approach will be the most successful, naturally taking into the consideration of the personalities of the various children.
A) The Dutch approach to shelter the children as much as possible until they "have found themselves".
B) The Danish approach with gradually involving the children side by side with their parents and having them meet a lot of people who are glad to see them. (Think Greenland - and hopefully soon Australia).
C) The Swedish approach by bringing the child (so far) on the job from day one.
D) The Spanish approach by bringing them along from time to time but in a more passive role.
- I omit the British, because George is not yet son of the heir. And the Belgians and Norwegians because I'm honestly not that familiar with their approach.
thank you Muhler
