I have been sitting back watching this thread as I had to resist the immediate impulse to "go for the jugular" rather than nut this out logically.
Essentially Trine wrote a book that is, by her own words, extremely critical (in parts) of the Danish Royal Family and Mary and Frederik in particular. She was also quoted as saying:
norwegianne said:
"Even if I have enough material to end the monarchy, I'm not after doing it," says the author -
Metroxpress - Ny bog blotter kongehuset
Pretty inflammatory stuff.
Not surprisingly there are more than a few critical posts about said book.
Australian said:
Also, anyone who writes a book such as this should expect to be questioned etc, it shouldnt have come as a surprise that your wife is being questioned.
She then joins TRF and vociferously participates in a thread named
"1015 Kobenhavn K", the title of said book, to rebut those criticisms. But my problem is that Trine wrote the book, and when asked for corroboration of her sources she can only cite herself!
After many, sometimes acrimonious, posts, her husband, Brabant has felt the need to defend his wife's reputation and so also posts.
Nice to meet you Brabant, but the problem i have with the book is that we do not know who these sources are. We, as intelligent human beings will simply not just believe without credible sources. A simple, "a friend said" or "sources close to the prince" cannot suffice. We can also not just accept that it is credible sources just because her husband says so. Are we meant to just take you and your wife's word for it?
As
Australian has so succinctly put it . . . there you have it. A very circular problem.
When we have read, critqued, lauded or lambasted previous books on Royalty we have done it remotely, impersonally. That privilige is not afforded us by this particular book and this particular thread.
By it's very nature, it is an advertisement for the book in question, and those that disagree with the veracity of the book or question the authors posts are attacked, sometimes on a very personal level.
It is said that there is no such thing as "Bad Publicity" and I tend to agree. We here on TRF are the poorer for it.