General News about the Danish Royal Family Part 3: November 2015 - August 2021

[polyesco]

New survey on the DRF, how good or bad do Danes think of members?
https://www.bt.dk/royale/prins-joach...anske-kongehus

78, 75, and 73 percent are favorable to Frederik, Mary, and the Queen.
Noticeably all 3 have less then 6% each negatively.

[Muhler]

While the figures are regrettable for Joachim and our Marie, they are good for the monarchy and the succession, when it takes place.
It would be problematic if the CP couple were not that popular, or just one of them wasn't that popular.

[Tatiana Maria]

Originally Posted by polyesco

New survey on the DRF, how good or bad do Danes think of members?
https://www.bt.dk/royale/prins-joach...anske-kongehus

78, 75, and 73 percent are favorable to Frederik, Mary, and the Queen.
Noticeably all 3 have less then 6% each negatively.

Thank you, polyesco. The figures from the article are:

Favorable

Queen Margrethe 73%
Crown Prince Frederik 78%
Crown Princess Mary 75%
Princess Benedikte 43%
Prince Joachim 37%
Princess Marie 42%
Prince Nikolai 34%
Prince Felix 32%

Unfavorable

Queen Margrethe 6%
Crown Prince Frederik 5%
Crown Princess Mary 5%
Princess Benedikte 6%
Prince Joachim 24%
Princess Marie 10%
Prince Nikolai 6%
Prince Felix 6%

Neither favorable nor unfavorable

Queen Margrethe 16%
Crown Prince Frederik 13%
Crown Princess Mary 14%
Princess Benedikte 33%
Prince Joachim 32%
Princess Marie 36%
Prince Nikolai 39%
Prince Felix 39%

Don’t know

Queen Margrethe 5%
Crown Prince Frederik 5%
Crown Princess Mary 6%
Princess Benedikte 18%
Princess Marie 13%
Prince Joachim 8%
Prince Nikolai 22%
Prince Felix 23%

YouGov conducted the survey employing a representative sample.

[Somebody]

Net score (pos - neg) for each:
Crown Prince Frederik 78% - 5% = 73%
Crown Princess Mary 75% - 5% = 70%
Queen Margrethe 73% - 6% = 67%

Princess Benedikte 43% - 6% = 37%
Princess Marie 42% - 10% = 32%
Prince Nikolai 34% - 6% = 28%
Prince Felix 32% - 6% = 26%

Prince Joachim 37% - 24% = 13%

It's interesting to see that Joachim is the only one with a substantial group thinking negatively about him. Only Marie is also in the dubble digits.

[ricarda]

Nothing new, really, except that Benedikte, Nikolai and Felix are on the list now.

In former days it used to be the very popular A-Team Margrethe, Frederik and Mary ,then a big gap and then the not so popular B-Team Henrik, Joachim and Marie. And in the B-Team it was either Henrik or Joachim who had the worst figures.

[Muhler]

Today is special for most of the children in the DRF.

It's the first day at school after the summer holiday for Isabella, Josephine and Vincent.

Christian will start today at his first day in high school - at Herlufsholm. It's likely he arrived yesterday afternoon, being a boarder.

Felix will start his first day at the military academy of what is going to be a hectic year!
Boot camp. NCO training and then training as an officer, graduating as second lieutenant.
That's going to take place in the town of Slagelse, about an hour from Copenhagen.
Then he's going to serve for one year in a regiment. Before graduating as first lieutenant. - And after graduation he will meet his farmor Margrethe with all the other graduates of his class. She will congratulate the new officers.
And then his army career, if he wish to have one, will start in earnest.

As for Henrik and Athena, I don't know when they start in school again.

[Archduchess Zelia]

Christian will start on 11 August, I think. So still a couple of days left.

Following the French school year, I assume Henrik and Athena won't start school again till September as the French summer holiday run through July and August – presumably why Joachim and Marie seem to have an extended stay in Denmark for the moment.

[Nordic]

Originally Posted by Muhler

Christian will start today at his first day in high school - at Herlufsholm. It's likely he arrived yesterday afternoon, being a boarder.

Moving in day for Christian is tomorrow, the 10th, first day of school is the 11th, according to the calendar.

https://herlufsholm.dk/media/7775/aa...givenheder.pdf

Moving in day includes parents
https://herlufsholm.dk/elever-og-for...ye-kostelever/

[Muhler]

Ah, I see.

As for J&M, yes I think they will stay for the rest of this month as our Marie has engagements later this month.

It will be interesting to see whether some of especially M&F's children will opt for an "efterskole" = continuation school, before starting in high school or after high school.
I can easily imagine Isabella spending a year at a school focusing on sport.
Or Isabella, being the little that ham she is, attending a school focusing on drama.
Most who opt for continuation school have fond memories of that year and they would get to know very different people an a very different way than at an expensive boarding school as Herlufsholm.

We dropped off our daughter at a sports-continuation school yesterday, where she will stay until Christmas. Then she will return home for about a month before leaving the nest - as the last one.

[Blog Real]

⁣New photo of Queen Margrethe II, Prince Joachim, Prince Henrik and Princess Athena at the Château de Cayx, has now been shared by the Royal House of Denmark.

This week, the Queen Margrethe II has been on her annual summer stay in the south of France, and the spends the weekend with her youngest son and two of her grandchildren, before the Queen returns home to Denmark tomorrow.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSmgQmHjP_4/

[polyesco]

A nice photo. I'm sure the Queen enjoyed a fee days with Joachim and the two grandkids.

[iceflower]

Time to close this thread. The new one can be found here.