I think that if Daniel would have been a man, who can´t go behind a woman, he couldn´t have behaved so well and correctly during all these years. He has been very discreet and loyal to the royal family during these six years.
IMO "discretion" and "not being able to stand behing a woman" are two completely different pairs of shoes!
Was Prince Philip ever really disloyal and babbled in detail about the weird unhappy marriages of his children? Or what about Prince Claus...did he arrange a serie of intimate interviews to BUNTE before his marriage to Beatrix.
Nonetheless both have/had problems with their roles in the shadow.
To me it would actually speak more for him being a true shadow-lover, if he would have been a tad more indiscreet and would have e.g. like Jonas Bergström said, that he would be very proud of his Royal girlfriend. But naaaa, it´s impossible to get some friendly polite phrases out of him on her.
And usually he is running ahead of her...as one could e.g. see in this video, which was done before Frederik´s birthday party.
Further one actually can also not say, that he was sooo well behaved always. It´s known, that he had shouted "idioter" at the press or even put his middle finger up. Thanks god (for him!) the Swedish press didn´t make a fuss around that, but just mentioned it in "side notes"...years later.
The thing, that one can give him is, that he is now friendlier...so one could say he is able to learn...
I don't know which words he should have used instead when refering to his daughter at her birthday. In swedish the word for Father is Pappa and the word for Mother is Mamma.
I am of course aware of that...even though the Swedish press still gives me little chills, when I am reading those terms (Mamma, Pappa) in connections with crimes committed by parents to their children...E.g. Pappa dödade hela sin familj...Or E.g Josef Fritzl was also called "Pappa" in the Swedish press. In German the word "Papa" is an intimate word, that you would use in family surroundings. And for other things there is "Vater" (which must be related to "Far")
I am wondering, if the universal use of "Pappa" and "Mamma" doesn´t sound weird to Danes also. As it seems you are not using Mamma/mummy or Pappa/daddy at all...but only the more "formal" sounding Mor&Far.
However...I´d have also not considered "Far" and "Mor" as appropriate...he could have said "and now please help me to sing a song for Victoria"
I guess I am quite thin-skinned here, because I´ve read way too many interviews, where Victoria (and her siblings) had said "Pappa wouldn´t be happy about this and that...and Pappa thinks that...) IMO this sounds so childish for ppl in their twens! Victoria will be queen one day for heavens sake. Surely loyalty to the king is expected...and also a close relationship to her father. But all together...with the delay...and with Victoria´s thesaurus mostly being stuck at the level of an 13 year old...I am tired of this "Pappa&Mamma" thing...and tired of the court&king&queen calling Victoria, CP and Madeleine "ungdomar" (youngsters)
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