Crown Prince Frederik's Old Girlfriends

[lumutqueen]

Originally Posted by Lighthouse

Don't royal men often keep mistresses? I'm going by what I know of the British monarchy here...isn't Prince Charles married to a former mistress? Why would European royalty be different?

He is married to his former mistress Camilla Parker Bowles.
However times are different now, the press are more instrusive and the men marry for the right reasons.

[antonieta]

Originally Posted by lumutqueen

He is married to his former mistress Camilla Parker Bowles.
However times are different now, the press are more instrusive and the men marry for the right reasons.

Indeed, times are differente now, but they can keep/have mistress's cant they?

[Maura724]

I think all the mistress stuff is a result of a man having to marry a woman he doesn't love. In the past, men like Charles married suitable girls like Diana, who they really didn't have any feelings for, and then took the woman they were truly interested in as a mistress. Frederik (and most CPs) today, however, married the woman they loved, the woman who would have been "mistress material" 50-100 years ago, so I don't think we'll see very many affairs.

[jmj21983]

Regardless of Frederiks relationship with Mary I'm convinced that the thing between him and Bettina had reached it's end when Bettina was silly enough to remove her bikini top in public. It's beyond me how an educated intelligent woman could act so incredible stupid. I'm not surprised that Bettina needed a scapegoat to admit it to herself and the public that it's over.

Going topless in Denmark and other parts of Europe is considered normal, so while it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do I wouldn't call it "incredible stupid." That was probably something she was used to doing. Didn't she and Frederik remain a couple for months after that? I don't think Bettina had any scapegoats....the relationship just reached its end, that's all.