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Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe
I hate to say this BUT Queen Margrethe don´t write her newyears speech.
She gets an outecast from Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen about what to say in her speech. She migthe writhe somthing down but it is not the full version of it.
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To some extent, I stand corrected:). Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, as
H.M. Margrethe has pointed out, actually receives an already written speech from the Prime Minister's Office. This speech contains five or six topics which the Prime Minister's Office regards as being relevant. The Queen then writes her own speech.
First, the Queen chooses some topics, if any, from the already written speech, and then writes her completely own speech. When writing the speech, Her Majesty's private secretary (at the moment LLD Niels Eilschou Holm) assists Her Majesty in matters of political concern. When Her Majesty feels that her speech is perfect, it is returned to the Prime Minister's Office. Though communication between the Prime Minister's Office and the Court is strictly confidential, it has been said that the speech received from the Queen does not at all resemble the original speech.
About the New Year's Speech, Her Majesty has said:
"Jeg har altid sommerfugle i maven inden nytårstalen. Jeg håber at jeg rammer noget, der kan bruges. Det værste ville være at ramme slet ingenting. Naturligvis er jeg da spændt på reaktionerne. Særlig fordi der de senere år har været så meget interesse om den tale. Så bliver det væsentligt mere spændende at se, om man har truffet noget. Det væsentlige er ikke hvad aviserne siger, jeg fortæller tværtimod mig selv: ‘Det drejer sig ikke om god og dårlig kritik, men om, at folk syntes du har sagt noget, som angår dem.’"
In English:
"I always have butterflies in my stomach before the New Years Speech. I hope that I touch something of use. The worst would be to touch absolutely nothing. Naturally, I am excited about the reactions. Especially because this speech has become a centre of attention over the last years. Thus, it becomes even more exciting to see if you have struck something. The essential is not what the news papers say, on the contrary, I tell myself: 'It is not a matter of good and bad critique, but of whether people think that you have said something which concerns them'"
Finally, thank you for your comments on the translation. You are much too kind
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/Lasse Pedersen