BB is spoiling it's readers this week!
Not only are the DRF very well covered, we also get to see a couple of the official photos to be published on Nikolai's B-day and Josephine's fashion choices are covered as well. Oh yes.
Anyway, summary of article in Billed Bladet #35, 2015.
Written by Ulrik Ulriksen.
Mary presented the new initiative "Kærligt talt = said frankly but lovingly" that is to be a part of the general teaching at schools and it covers abuse within (younger) relationships.
As such Mary went to Guldberg School in Copenhagen, where she was received warmly by the pupils who had lined up.
Here she gave a speech and said: "Violence against women and in relationships is among the most serious problems in a global perspective. To put it into perspective she told the pupils that in each class (of some 20-25) one or two will before they turn 24 end up in a violent relationship.
Mary emphasized the message from the Mary Foundation that violence is never the way forward - nor in a relationship between two who love each other.
She then sat down with a number of 9th graders.
And here she met fifteen year old Emilie Becker, who cried at Mary's shoulder. She said afterwards: "I've been through so much. Psychological abuse at school. It's so cool that Mary is doing something about this (*). It's cool that she puts focus on the problems of the young". She had come here from a town quite a distance away with her parents to listen to Mary.
Mary said to our reporter: "It's important to get close to the young people and it naturally means a lot to us to experience that we do make a difference".
The Mary Foundation and the Ministry of Education work alongside a number of well known public faces, like a TV-host but also a dancer, Silas Holst, who himself has been in an abusive relationship and written a book about. Together they are going to create and air a talk show that will take up the problems within relationships and perhaps offer advise. (Semi-fossilized Danes like myself may recall the radio show P4 that was aired on Sundays. I can imagine it's akin to the advise Trine Bryld offered the young listeners).
(*) I have a tremendous respect for QMII but I find it very difficult to imagine anyone crying in the arms of her. It simply wouldn't feel right. It wouldn't be natural. QMII is older and she is also more aloof in a royal way, which is typical of her generation.
With Mary and Frederik and indeed the royal generation they belong to it to me at least seem more natural. They deal with issues that are very much on the mind of teens and the 20'somethings and I imagine that is one of the reasons M&F so very much are
their royals and why they are so popular, especially among the younger.
I'm older, it wouldn't be so natural to me to cry let alone confide to M&F and as such QMII is the main royal of my generation. If you get what I mean.
Please correct me if I'm completely off the mark Roskilde, Archduchess Zelia and FasterB.