The Royal House lamented male-dominated guest list: But now it has happened againThe Crown Prince and his friends did not have female company during the hunt in Grib Skov, which Queen Margrethe hosted on Thursday evening. While both Queen Margrethe, Crown Princess Mary, and a number of the hunters' female companions participated in the subsequent dinner table at Fredensborg Castle, where the day's prey was inspected, there were again only men on the 19-man long guest list for the hunt before. Business leaders Fritz H. Schur, Count Christoffer Knuth, Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott, and director Peter Aandahl, among others, had participated.
Thursday's King's Hunt was the second in a row. The first took place in Gludsted Plantage on November 1, and here several noticed that the list of 25 guests was quite male-dominated. In fact, there was not a single woman among those invited.
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"The world does not only consist of men, so when you gather a circle of people under the auspices of the Royal House, I think it is thought-provoking that not a single woman is invited," said museum director Jane Sandberg.
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"I know lots of women with hunting licenses who would be relevant to invite."Figures from the Danish Hunters' Association show that 6.7 percent of those who took hunting licenses in the 2019/2020 season were women. Compared to the previous season, it is an increase of 0.2 percent.
And it also annoyed the Royal House that they had not invited any of these women to the hunt on 1 November.
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"It is a pity that there were no female hunters on the hunt this time", said Lene Balleby, Royal House's communications manager.



