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I really like the light blue and the dark red dresses.
Very interested to see sealskin featured in this economic mission. Canadians have been battered by international publicity against sealing; I wonder what the Danish/Greenlandics have done to reverse the anti-seal hunt trend?
So who among the crown princes/princesses do not perform their duties as "Perfection at its finest"? And what is is about Frederick and Mary that makes them so superior? I am having a hard time holding them up as the ultimate example as compared to the other royal couples.
Frederick and Mary are excellent examples of good diplomats who practice proper diplomacy.
They are very serious about their meetings with heads of state.
Also the Crown Prince and Princess are pleasant and jovial.
Perfection at its finest.
Very interested to see sealskin featured in this economic mission. Canadians have been battered by international publicity against sealing; I wonder what the Danish/Greenlandics have done to reverse the anti-seal hunt trend?
Being in Germany these days, I haven't been able to follow what goes on here on TRF lately but I get a clear impression that M&F did very well. They are a great team when working together! Flirtatious and relaxed and Mary (just like QMII with PH) has a tendency to become girlish when Frederik is aorund.
Thanks, Roskilde & Polyesco
Due to Easter BB has hit the streets today.
Summary of article in Billed Bladet #14, 2015.
Written by our East Asia correspondent, Marianne Singer.
This was the first time Greenland promoted itself, independent of a Danish delegation although there were also Danish government ministers for the relevant ministries i.e. the Ministry of Greenland and the Ministry of Fishery. (Greenland is fully autonomous except in foreign affairs, defense and the courts and policing). So it was very much members of the Greenlandic Parliament who was in the forefront, with the head of the Greenlandic Parliement, Kim Kielsen, in the lead.
Kim Kielsen and Frederik are actually very good friends and have been hunting together in Greenland. And he was also the one who took Christian with him on a fishing trip during their last visit to Greenland. With no mom and dad around, mind you, so that was quite an experience for Christian!
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The DRF and the JIF are actually pretty close personally and among the Japanese in general Frederik has a considerable status, since he was the first royal (the very first!) to visit the areas affected by the tsunami in 2011 - and that hasn't been forgotten.
I think we will. The trip appears to have been a success for the Greenlanders in regards to exposure.
You will learn a lot more about Christian's fishing trip when I upload a summary of the interview tomorrow.
I need my beauty sleep though. It's hard work drinking German beer and eating German sausages, but somebody's got to do. One wouldn't want to insult one's hosts by declining to sample the local specialties.
(*) It is said that if you visit Greenland you either fall helplessly in love with the country, or you go stir crazy and flee. That is nothing in between!
(**) I think the trip to Greenland was just as much a dress rehearsal for M&F's next visit to Australia. As with Greenland we can expect the children to get an experience of being welcomed by lot of people who are genuinely pleased to see them and who talk to them in a way that is sometimes a bit difficult to understand. All that while going to a place that looks, smells and feels very different from Denmark.
You are most welcome, Polyesco.
Here is the interview I told you about.
Summary of interview in Billed Bladet #13, 2015.
Interviewer Marianne Singer.
M&F of course say a lot of pleasantries about Japan but also a good deal about their relationship with Greenland and in particular what their children think of Greenland, now that they have experienced the country up close.
Mary said about Japan: "We have experienced that they (the Japanese) are incredible warm people, open and very curious. Tokyo is a huge city and one really can't fathom how big it is. Yet, here is so clean and pleasant... And then we have been to a fish market at 05.00 in the morning. It was a huge experience to see the world market up and running at five in the morning to sell tuna fish to all corners of the world". (Greenland hope to supply fresh products to market).
Frederik talked about a special experience Christian had alone in Greenland, when he went fishing with the Greenlandic Head of the Parliament, Kim Kielsen, who is a friend of Frederik: "Kim Kielsen did have a couple of good hours with our son Christian alone in a little dinghy, while I was ashore with some of his nephews to shoot reindeer. That Christian won't forget either. He had a good afternoon".
M: "It was a big experience, he came home with big eyes".
Q: Kim Kielsen mentioned in one of his speeches with a twinkle in the eye that a worried mother waited while they were away?
Mary laughing: "It's a different sense of time they have in Greenland, than I as a mother has. But it went alright".
F: "In Greenland you throw away the clock when you go hunting". (So presumably Kim Kielsen and Christian were completely alone, with
no PET officers around).
Q: Kim Kielsen mentioned in one of his speeches with a twinkle in the eye that a worried mother waited while they were away?
Mary laughing: "It's a different sense of time they have in Greenland, than I as a mother has. But it went alright".
F: "In Greenland you throw away the clock when you go hunting". (So presumably Kim Kielsen and Christian were completely alone, with
no PET officers around).
this story is just great. Mary was probably pacing and looking out the window on the Danneborg, and Frederik just leaning back saying "he's fine"