camelot23ca
Heir Presumptive
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Frederik is a very emotional man. We never see public displays of emotion like that in the British royal family for example.
It is nice, but it can reinforce a perception of immaturity which has plagued him since he was a young man (which he is not anymore BTW).
Context matters quite a bit here, don't you think? Frederik is an emotional man but he lets these emotions show generally on happy occasions that are connected to him, personally. He wells up at a song on his 50th birthday, surrounded by loved ones, after several days of a huge outpouring of public affection. He got emotional at the christenings of his children and at his own wedding. And so on.
Immaturity, to me, is when someone can't control their negative emotions or moods, (anger, frustration, boredom, petulance), especially in public.