UserDane
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... so not sure why Henrik's accent for example is problematic in Denmark.
Personally, I do not base my opinion of Henrik's Danish language skills on his accent; I don't expect foreign born persons to acquire a thoroughly Danish accent (just as I cannot acquire a thoroughly English accent no matter how hard I try...).
IMO, Henrik has a surprisingly poor grip of which Danish words are the neuter and which are the common gender - and that is immediately audible to Danes. And he often uses sentences structures which are decidedly not Danish. So even if he had acquired a near-perfect Danish accent these 'flaws' would immediately be noticable.
But perhaps queen Margrethe has done him an unintentional disservice by using French as the family language; while this may have benefitted their sons' French language skills, it may have been a major reason for Henrik's relatively poor Danish. A shame really, because he is said to have an ear for foreign languages and is said to if not speak then know quite a bit of some Asian languages so there really does not seem to be any reason why he should not have had a better grip of the Danish language at an earlier point in time.