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Who is this girl?  Isn't she Katja Storkholm? Allegedly she was THE ONE, but because she was Danish and a model, when Frederik wanted to marry her, Marge didn't let him. To be honest, I never quite got the thinking behind that idea that ALL Danish royals should marry foreigners. She was and still is stunning! |
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ITA Katja is stunning and a natural beauty. She seems like a lovely person. I’m sure she was hurt at the time but I think she probably ended up with a much happier life not being married to weak-willed Fred. He and Mary deserve each other.
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He should have pushed the way Felipe pushed for Letizia. I think Marge would have appreciated his strong will and probably relented.
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I can not fathom this: why did Fred have to marry Mary if having known happiness and love he would have to settle for so much less? Fred does not seem to be the stuff martyrs are made - he is too self-indulgent for that  IMHO he really was in love with Mosh - or rather the role she was playing for him....She showed her true colours afterwards...  |
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He should have pushed the way Felipe pushed for Letizia. I think Marge would have appreciated his strong will and probably relented.
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Look how happy Fred was with Katja! Wow. A different man. Sad he didn't push to marry her but I assume he is too weak and afraid of his mother. What an idiotic so-called rule, though.
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Can someone explain the logic behind not being allowed to marry a Danish person in the Danish Royal Family? I've read that is the rule, but it still makes no sense. Maybe when Daisy dies, Fred will divorce Mary and marry Katja? He would be free to do it at that point, right? It sounds like the Danish population liked her and Fred grew and was his best self with her.
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Can someone explain the logic behind not being allowed to marry a Danish person in the Danish Royal Family? I've read that is the rule, but it still makes no sense. Maybe when Daisy dies, Fred will divorce Mary and marry Katja? He would be free to do it at that point, right? It sounds like the Danish population liked her and Fred grew and was his best self with her.
Normally a healthy injection of foreign genes would avoid weakening the lineage. But Daisy didn’t know about the Boganson genes! |
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It’s not a rule as much as it’s something that’s preferred. In any case, it’s something that only made sense before the internet.
The point was to avoid magazines filled with in-laws, exes, silly mistakes made when younger and all that jazz. A Donaldson situation in Denmark or like MM’s dad in Norway.
I think it’s one of those ideas where the intention was ok but the execution of it was bad.
None of Frederik’s exes were trashy like Mosh.
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I can not fathom this: why did Fred have to marry Mary if having known happiness and love he would have to settle for so much less? Fred does not seem to be the stuff martyrs are made - he is too self-indulgent for that IMHO he really was in love with Mosh - or rather the role she was playing for him....She showed her true colours afterwards... I agree with this. She presented herself as a sporty, down-to-earth and and fun-loving woman and Frodo loved that. Then once the wedding ring was on her finger, she didn't have to keep the act up anymore. You saw it in her attitude on her wedding day when she was talking down to her bridesmaids outside the church. |
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Mary was also in the right place at the right time in 2003.
Because Joachim and Alexandra had decided to divorce and Frederik the heir was still not married. The family 'needed' a happy event at that time. Mary was then Fred's girlfriend and she was not from Denmark with no skeletons in her closet : she fulfilled the criteria for being Fred's bride.
So: engagement announced, wedding and four months later J & A divorced. But now there was a new princess to take over Alexandra's part.
Mary was lucky for sure. But is she the love of Fred's life ? No way.
Or if she is, he has a weird manner to show her.
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In addition to that, you have Marge who prided herself on not being internet-savvy. I could easily see her telling her courtiers that Mosh is probably just fine and that there's no need to do any background investigation since she was from the other side of the world. I would imagine that they probably looked to see if she had a criminal record or a career that involved taking nude/lingerie photos and when they found nothing, Marge probably thought that was sufficient.
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It a ridiculous rule anyway. I would argue that it made sense in the very past when royal families were powerful and wanted to create alliances but it definitely doesn't make sense now in the age of the internet.
After the 30s and with the way communication was spreading, there would always be a possibility that embarrassing stories about royal spouses would be printed. The press, then, would be more discreet but then if we go back two generations, the Danish royals always chose their spouses carefully!
Ingrid was Swedish BUT she was a princess so of course there would be no embarrassing stories about her, Henrik was French and from a good family albeit social climbers, late Richard was German and from a noble family, yet that didn't stop the press writing all about his family's Nazi connections and Constantine is Greek and he is/was a royal. The only mavericks from that generation are, Harald, who insisted on marrying Sonja who came from a working-class family, and Beatrix, who married Claus, despite all the overwhelming evidence of Nazi connections and participation in the Nazi regime, even though he didn't believe in it and had to be member of the youth organisations since he was a young German man. All the other royal spouses of that generation who became queens were either royal themselves (Sofia), from nobility (Fabiola and Paola) or were commoners, but came from money (Silvia and Marie-Therese).
It has only been for Frederik and Joachim's generation that they should worry about salacious stories of past boyfriends, gossip etc, and that's inevitable because of the internet and the countless of tabloids around the world. Of course, Joachim, both times made wise choices in whom to marry, and there weren't any stories about embarrassing relatives friends and boyfriends of Alexandra or Marie (I think), but we all got to enjoy the leeches that are John Donaldson and Amber Petty. Mary's siblings have at least been a bit more dignified.
If it were Katja's lingerie modelling pictures that were an additional problem, all I have to say is that in the recent years we have seen more of Mary than we ever hoped to see! At least, if Fred had stood his ground, he would have been much happier and the Danes would have a lovely Crown Princess who spoke fluent Danish and was interest in conservation and art and not just in fashion and botox!
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