"Here, Queen Margrethe spoke warmly about how she and her son Frederik complement each other.
- I do not know, but there is one thing that is certain: neither one nor the other can do both things at the same time. So when we are two about it, we can embrace it a little wider. He can do a great deal with business and the kind that would fall to me barely as naturally as it falls to him, the queen said.
uestion.
"I think he did really well, and I was really proud that a mother can be allowed to be - and can not help but say," said Queen Margrethe with a smile."
https://www.billedbladet.dk/kongeli...rederik-jeg-er-saa-stolt-som-en-mor-kan-vaere
and on her German
https://www.billedbladet.dk/kongeli...-saadan-fik-dronning-margrethe-alle-til-grine
Google translate won't be much help here!
Marianne Singer who is accompanying QMII and Frederik to Germany is writing the quotes word for word and QMII, like most Danes, has a tendency to not finish sentences.
So here is what she says about her German (corrected by me):
"If there are someone who can remember possible German lessons in their youth, then they will remember that it's frightfully difficult to master the German language, because there is so much grammar. And the worst thing about that grammar is that there is nothing you can do if it's wrong. (Marianne Singer omitted a word here)
You can conceal terribly many misspellings in French, once you pronounce it, but you really can't with German.
I haven't used it (speaking German) as much as I perhaps ought to because many have been so kind to speak English, and excellent English, to me.
But I have indeed been trying to speak a little household (basic) German from time to time. - A VERY small house."
- I did hear her speak German on TV and I believe her German is way superior to most Danes. - Alas, most Danes speak at best a rudimentary German.
ADDED: I just saw a segment with QMII on the news visiting Bavaria. It's remarkable to see the flower-children presenting flowers wearing masks - we sure live in surreal times!
I also noticed a Bavarian Schütchen Verband (I think they were) complete in traditional hats and lederhosen singing and firing a salute in her honor - with relatively modern Mauser-carbines rather than traditional muzzle-loaders. I wonder if that upgrade, so to speak, has something to do with safety regulation.