Charlotte1
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I am at a loss to understand "The Nanny Issue ".
It is my belief the the CP Couple, not to mention both sets of Grandparents, want Christian and Isabella to have the best possible family life. That being the case, any Nanny employed would absolutely have to be a fully trained professional. Dare one say.......a 'Career Woman' (or man) who would expect to have job security!
If Mary were free to hands-on parent the children for the morning but be out in the afternnon, home for dinner and then out for the evening or overnight, is The Nanny supposed to be there only when needed? I don't think so. That would not be acceptable work conditions under which employment law would allow.
As Mary (and Frederik for that matter) have erratic work loads, I am guessing that the nannying is split into at least three (eight hour?) shiftts. That's three nannies. If Christian and Isabella need to be in two different places at the same time.....well that's two nannies on the same shift....so that's ...........Four! Then there is one off sick or on holiday etc.........
Mary and Frederik have three nannies 2 fulltime and one part-time, this has been confirmed by the Danish court.
The discussion point here is not that they have nannies but rather that Mary out of all the various crown princess and princess ( all of whom employ nannies) spoke beforehand about the fact that her children wouldn't be raised by nannies. That then set her up for criticism because she has nannies and more than one.
There is no controversy or criticism of the other CP as they never gave an interview about nannies. Mette-Marit apparently also has 3 nannies and when she and Haakon travel overseas together her mother also moves in with their children. ( Not known if they are part-time or fulltime as Marius is at school and Ingrid attends Nursery school) Regardless there is no criticism of the fact that she has nannies because she never spoke about her attitude to having nannies the way Mary did.