Yes, King Frederik's manifesto in bookform has been a huge seller today.
https://www.bt.dk/royale/kong-frederik-om-sit-private-liv-med-mary-hun-er-min-wingman
It's basically his thoughts about being a king, his visions for the future for him and the realm and some thoughts on what traditions he will continue.
What follow here is a number of excepts and quotes from the book, in no particular order.
He emphasize very clearly that he and Queen Mary are a team, pretty much on equal basis. He label her "his wingman."
He will continue the New Year speech tradition about ending the speech with God save Denmark. - As that phrase has always given him goosebumps.
He is confident that he will manage the challenge of reading the New Year speeches live will go well, even though he may do some things differently.
He did not mention God in his proverb because he wanted his proverb to be more inclusive.
He does believe Christianity is a foundation for the Danish realm.
He does attend service in church because he likes to.
They still say the Lord's Prayer each evening for twins, before lights out. The children like it that way.
He says that meeting his wife on his first visit to Australia was almost an act of providence.
"I love the marriage, my wife (formal word), our children and the whole happy base which is formed for those people who manage to stick together and hang on."
He praises QMII for spotting Queen Mary's potential and making her Rigsforstander.
That was never the case with PH.
"As mentioned previously my father was very patriarch minded and that pattern he tried to pass on to his two sons. Here I have however learned a lot from havig a wife (formal word) who from time to time that I'm of course not always right and that my words are not automatically final, just because I'm the man of the house.
Eventhough I sometimes catch myself thinking: Oh, do we really need to use five more minutes on that discussion, then I accept that Mary would like to turn over a few more stones and then we take five or ten minutes more."
(Welcome to the club of seasoned husbands, FX. ? )
"Mary is my partner and wingman and we have a super dynamic."
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/j...-klimakamp-6-nedslag-fra-kongens-nye-manifest
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/kong-frederik-vi-skal-passe-paa-de-kristne-kernevaerdier
FX encourage people to take a moral and human responsibility for each other:
"We live in an age where it's a lot of me, me and ego-me here and ego-me there. You'd better realize yourselv in all sorts of directions before you turn 40 and in may Western societies thet most important question is: What can you do for me? Rarely is it the other way around: What can I do for you?"
"When friends talk about them wishing to soon stepping back in their work life, I usually say that Mary and I look forward to stepping up."
FX is no admirer of the tall poppy syndrome/the Law of Jante.
He and QM will work on preserving nature, increasing bio diversity and countering climate changes.
"As Regent Couple we will continue to be a bridge and a link in the commonwealth (The entire Realm) and as far as possible work for the tightening the bonds between Greenland, the Faeroe Island and the rest of the Danish realm. We must not forget that we are bound together (positive meaning) in the commonwealth. That obligates."
King Frederik does not earn any money on this book. The book is written by Jens Andersen, who was also behind Under The Beam, which you can about here on TRF.
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There will no doubt be even more from this book over the coming days, so feel free to post and translate, because what I may find most significant and choose to write about may not be what others find most significant.
This book is great, because this is something we can all have an opinion about with needing to know that much about DK.
