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Originally posted by Hélène@May 23rd, 2004 - 12:48 pm
I may be alone in this, but I think this Frederik/Christian/Margrethe-thing is really boring. Come on, only three names!
If I have got it right, there is some kind of law that says a king or a queen _has to be_ named either Margrethe or Frederik/Christian, but do they have to be called that as first name, or is it ok if it's only a middlename? And is there really a rule that says this, or is it just a tradition?
I can't say I understand this, but maybe that's because I'm not Danish...
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It's a royal protocol given by a "kings decree" (that's the parliarment and government with the consent of the monarch) This was done in 1953 in connection with the constitutional change. So it's not a tradition, and not a law, but where laws and traditions have been broken, a "kings decree" has never been broken.