This lovely frontpage with Frederik and Mary can been seen on today's newspaper BT around Denmark.
A large interview with Crown Prince Frederik:
Mary gets Frederik to seek new ways - "Why she (Mary) makes me so happy and proud":
Mary får Frederik til at søge nye veje: Derfor gør hun mig så glad og stolt - Special | www.bt.dk
BT has interviewed Frederik during his trip to Nepal and has put a small part of the interview online:
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Denmark's future King will spend more time there where the need is biggest. That tells the Crown Prince in a large interview with BT today who has been with and met Frederik in Nepal.
Both body and mind are tired after a hard field trip. Hours and hours on the seats in the old Red Cross four-wheel car. Mountain trekking in Nepal's humid heat. As well as lots of speeches, work and official presentations.
Yet, Crown Prince Frederik's eyes get extra glow and his voice renewed strength when the conversation turns to Crown Princess Mary, who is located more than 8,000 km from the simple office in Kathmandu, where BT meet the Crown Prince and who spend lots of time and effort to help them who need it. Both at home and abroad. Among other things as the patron of the Danish Refugee Council, United Nations Population Fund, and not least as the founder of the Mary Foundation.
"It makes me so happy and so proud to see how Mary pursues that track," said Crown Prince Frederik.
"I teach almost more of her than she does of me. She has a fulltime focus on it and is requested as a speaker and frontman far up in the UN system, so it's a pleasure. We help each other, and it's great and fun."
The Crown Prince Couple now have known each other for 16 years. They have four children, a copper wedding anniversary is approaching and they stand stronger than ever before.
"It's fantastic to see Mary doing things that are really exceptional. That was how she was even before we met each other I can remember. She is such a person who is aware of people and people's welfare - in particular those who need a helping hand," says Crown Prince Frederik to BT.
Proud father
Frederik and Mary's four children are now Christian on 9 years old, Isabella on 8 years old and the 4 years old Vincent and Josephine. During the trip Crown Prince Frederik often takes pictures with his iPhone. Pictures he shows to Mary and especially the children when he returnes home.
"The pictures will be used to tell about the trip to my family. But I must admit I'm not always so good to do more about all the pictures. They are usually seated in the phone where I also show them from."
Frederik explains that the children at home have difficulty to understand the natural disaster their father is out to experience with the Danish Red Cross.
"They can't really relate to it, because one can't really see an earthquake unlike other natural disasters. As for example tornadoes which our little ones and especially Vincent is very fascinated by at the moment. He has seen a tornado on TV and he draws tornadoes in the kindergarten. They think it's very exciting. Tornadoes moves, one can be sucked up in it and flung away, it looks veeeeery dangerous," says Frederik with a father's pride in his voice.
"I'm not going to tell I've been near a tornado, but when I have to explain to them what happened I will in a pedagogical way say that it's as dangerous as a tornado."
Brings local toys home to the children
Crown Prince Frederik says with a smile that he usually buys "boring" gifts to take home to her children. In the sense that they rarely come from the toy stores most appealing shelves.
"It is to present the world for my children. If they could choose they would probably choose a remote-controlled toy car. But you can get that one anywhere. Instead I come home with something that gives my children a good idea of where I have been and what culture I have experienced. For example a mask, a puppet or a local board game."
It's a tradition Frederik carry on from his father, Prince Henrik.
"He came home with lots of things that he himself had received in the villages he visited. Wooden figures, cars made of steel wire and other things that we children at home thought was exciting."
As 81 years old is Prince Henrik now no longer is able to take as active a part in the field work with the Danish Red Cross. And it was Prince Henrik who wished that it was Frederik who took over from him.
Frederik is now "kommiceret" a sort of ambassador for the Danish Red Cross.
"My father wished that I continued the work. There is a tradition in our family to be active in the Danish Red Cross," says Frederik.
"I'm the younger now and my father the older, he would like to still show a little, but he can no longer be as active as before."
Invaluable experience
Crown Prince Frederik calls his working trip invaluable.
"You can always communicate a little better about for example Red Cross' work when you have been out and try it on your own body. It's an invaluable experience I can take with me in my backpack from here."
"This is not a one-time trip. There will be other opportunities for me in the future and I'm looking very much forward to them."
BT's journalist observes that it is obvious that Crown Prince Frederik is in his right element when he visits the other end. Where he can meet those who need help. Try on his own body to carrying the heavy materials up in the mountains just like the Nepalese themselves.
A large interview with Crown Prince Frederik:
Mary gets Frederik to seek new ways - "Why she (Mary) makes me so happy and proud":
Mary får Frederik til at søge nye veje: Derfor gør hun mig så glad og stolt - Special | www.bt.dk
BT has interviewed Frederik during his trip to Nepal and has put a small part of the interview online:
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Denmark's future King will spend more time there where the need is biggest. That tells the Crown Prince in a large interview with BT today who has been with and met Frederik in Nepal.
Both body and mind are tired after a hard field trip. Hours and hours on the seats in the old Red Cross four-wheel car. Mountain trekking in Nepal's humid heat. As well as lots of speeches, work and official presentations.
Yet, Crown Prince Frederik's eyes get extra glow and his voice renewed strength when the conversation turns to Crown Princess Mary, who is located more than 8,000 km from the simple office in Kathmandu, where BT meet the Crown Prince and who spend lots of time and effort to help them who need it. Both at home and abroad. Among other things as the patron of the Danish Refugee Council, United Nations Population Fund, and not least as the founder of the Mary Foundation.
"It makes me so happy and so proud to see how Mary pursues that track," said Crown Prince Frederik.
"I teach almost more of her than she does of me. She has a fulltime focus on it and is requested as a speaker and frontman far up in the UN system, so it's a pleasure. We help each other, and it's great and fun."
The Crown Prince Couple now have known each other for 16 years. They have four children, a copper wedding anniversary is approaching and they stand stronger than ever before.
"It's fantastic to see Mary doing things that are really exceptional. That was how she was even before we met each other I can remember. She is such a person who is aware of people and people's welfare - in particular those who need a helping hand," says Crown Prince Frederik to BT.
Proud father
Frederik and Mary's four children are now Christian on 9 years old, Isabella on 8 years old and the 4 years old Vincent and Josephine. During the trip Crown Prince Frederik often takes pictures with his iPhone. Pictures he shows to Mary and especially the children when he returnes home.
"The pictures will be used to tell about the trip to my family. But I must admit I'm not always so good to do more about all the pictures. They are usually seated in the phone where I also show them from."
Frederik explains that the children at home have difficulty to understand the natural disaster their father is out to experience with the Danish Red Cross.
"They can't really relate to it, because one can't really see an earthquake unlike other natural disasters. As for example tornadoes which our little ones and especially Vincent is very fascinated by at the moment. He has seen a tornado on TV and he draws tornadoes in the kindergarten. They think it's very exciting. Tornadoes moves, one can be sucked up in it and flung away, it looks veeeeery dangerous," says Frederik with a father's pride in his voice.
"I'm not going to tell I've been near a tornado, but when I have to explain to them what happened I will in a pedagogical way say that it's as dangerous as a tornado."
Brings local toys home to the children
Crown Prince Frederik says with a smile that he usually buys "boring" gifts to take home to her children. In the sense that they rarely come from the toy stores most appealing shelves.
"It is to present the world for my children. If they could choose they would probably choose a remote-controlled toy car. But you can get that one anywhere. Instead I come home with something that gives my children a good idea of where I have been and what culture I have experienced. For example a mask, a puppet or a local board game."
It's a tradition Frederik carry on from his father, Prince Henrik.
"He came home with lots of things that he himself had received in the villages he visited. Wooden figures, cars made of steel wire and other things that we children at home thought was exciting."
As 81 years old is Prince Henrik now no longer is able to take as active a part in the field work with the Danish Red Cross. And it was Prince Henrik who wished that it was Frederik who took over from him.
Frederik is now "kommiceret" a sort of ambassador for the Danish Red Cross.
"My father wished that I continued the work. There is a tradition in our family to be active in the Danish Red Cross," says Frederik.
"I'm the younger now and my father the older, he would like to still show a little, but he can no longer be as active as before."
Invaluable experience
Crown Prince Frederik calls his working trip invaluable.
"You can always communicate a little better about for example Red Cross' work when you have been out and try it on your own body. It's an invaluable experience I can take with me in my backpack from here."
"This is not a one-time trip. There will be other opportunities for me in the future and I'm looking very much forward to them."
BT's journalist observes that it is obvious that Crown Prince Frederik is in his right element when he visits the other end. Where he can meet those who need help. Try on his own body to carrying the heavy materials up in the mountains just like the Nepalese themselves.
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thank you so much Roskilde 
Regarding the helmet issue, I do wear one in Toronto but only because the drivers are so very preoccupied with their own lives and cellphones, often forgetting to watch where they are going
