Mr Muhler , Why did the lady in waiting and Prince Joachim secretary resign on the same day.
No work for them ?
Princess benedikte is doing more than your Princess Marie.
Thank you, Kataryn.
Most educational.
I had the impression that most people from that region had over the centuries come to identify themselves as predominantly French. That is certainly the impression the docus and history books I've read and seen presents.
Their resignation happening at the same time is a coincidence.
In DK the various LiWs and adjutants (Joachim's secretary is basically an "administrative adjutant") resign after a number of years. In other countries like Sweden the adjutants are rotated on shorter periods.
Benedikte has always been a hard worker. There is no denying that. When she is in DK (also when she was married) she tends to lump together a number of events, usually for her protections, so that she over a handful of days take on several different events.
Our Marie on the other hand, tends to take on events that covers southern DK quite a lot and sometimes involving traveling abroad.
Could she do more? Yes, no doubt.
Should she do more? That is not an easy question to answer.
Right now we have a semi-retired Monarch, QMII.
We have the main working adult couple, M&F, who are kept busy performing their duties. They are center-stage - as they should be.
And we have J&M as the supporting adult working couple. And for the next 15 years or so, they are the main reserves, should M&F suffer some kind of malfunction. And that will remain so until Christian is ready to take over.
Then we have an additional, part time working royal in the shape of Benedikte.
Together they constitute 5 full time working royals - who are to cover a country of 5.8 million.
Okay, if we compare to the BRF.
At present they constitute 7 full time royals, who covers a population ten times larger plus the Commonwealth. That means they have to do a proportionally higher number of engagements in order to cover a similar area. As a consequence they are seen all over the place. Partly because that's tradition in the BRF, a necessity and not least because the British public and certainly the press seems obsessed with how many engagement they do, rather than the quality of these engagements.
And, there is another factor to consider: The physical distance, not to mention the cultural distance, between the ordinary Brit and the ordinary Dane and their royals is much shorter in Denmark than in Britain. Which is why members of the DRF rarely cause a stir when they are out and about on their own.
If I and Mrs. Muhler stroll down a pedestrian street in Aarhus every week there is a small but real chance that we will meet a member of the DRF, while the chance of meeting a member of the BRF is almost negligible were we stroll down a pedestrian street in Birmingham.
That shorter distance is why the number of DRF events are comparatively much lower in DK than in the UK. If we see them too often, it cease being something special.
