The positioning of CP and his wife is just revolting. It doesn't end, and it really looks like they are trying to usurp the actual CP couple.
Clearly they are the monarch's favorites and . . . no one can advise on the optics it seems. Poor Victoria.
The positioning of CP and his wife is just revolting. It doesn't end, and it really looks like they are trying to usurp the actual CP couple.
Clearly they are the monarch's favorites and . . . no one can advise on the optics it seems. Poor Victoria.
I agree with this completely, but I also think there's a degree of security there too by having Vic in a separate carriage to CG.
As we've seen in history such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand and JFK, being in open vehicles in public is a security risk that is very hard to manage. I know the BRF notoriously travel separately, and I wonder if there is a degree of that in the planning for Sweden? Though a peaceful country, it does have its own history of assassinations, I'm thinking Olaf Palme and Anna Lindh.
Though I must admit when I first saw Greasy and Hoefia in the same carriage as CG and Silvia my instant thought was "favourites here again!". I know they're not HRH, but it may have been nice to see CP and Sofia in a third carriage with their kids? Alexander is old enough to attend the concert, but even if not the kids can attend the cortege but watch the concert from behind the scenes.
