She sure did a lot of good.
The first crisis/refuge center for women in DK was set up by Countess Danner.
And that at an age were whacking your wife was not uncommon and while generally frowned upon, (when it happened regularly and excessively, that is) not taken particularly serious. So those who ended up in this first shelter had really had a rough time!
Countess Danner after all knew about wife-beatings first hand. She must have seen - and heard - it many times growing up.
Sadly Countess Danner's initiative didn't extend to children for another 100 years.
In fact slapping and caning pupils was only abolished a few years before I started in school and some of our teachers really had problems letting go of old habits! It was not uncommon to get a slap for half my time in school.
- Oh, if you have a question specifically aimed at me, just PM me, because it's far from always I read all the posts in the DRF threads. Sometimes I miss a thread, because the headline is similar to another in another royal family or I forget to check back after posting something.
In this case Henrik answered the question better than I probably would have.
I was traveling with other people, it was somewhere outside of Copenhagen, it was owned by the Lundbeck Institute, they were using it as a hotel/meeting center, it was pre-2009, and somebody said "the king built this place for his mistress".
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