The Danish royals got here collectively for a enjoyable household reunion this week, with Australian-born Queen Mary’s sisters even flying from Down Underneath for his or her niece Princess Isabella’s 18th birthday celebrations.
In addition to Isabella’s three siblings – Crown Prince Christian, 19, and 14-year-old twins, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine – her paternal cousins, Depend Nikolai, 25, and Depend Felix, 22, stepped out for the live performance on the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen.
However 4 different relations have been notably lacking from proceedings – King Frederik’s brother and aunt to Isabella, Prince Joachim, his spouse Princess Marie and their two youngsters, Depend Henrik, 15, and Countess Athena, 13.
There is a logical clarification for his or her absence – Prince Joachim and Princess Marie now reside in Washington D.C.
The couple moved with their youngsters to the US in September 2023 to ensure that Joachim to take up the function of protection trade attaché on the Danish Embassy.
The household beforehand lived in Paris for 3 years, the place the prince labored as Navy Attaché on the Royal Danish Embassy.
Following their stateside transfer, Henrik and Athena have been then enrolled in colleges within the American capital.
In the meantime, Joachim’s sons, Nikolai and Felix, from his earlier marriage to Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, are grown-up and are already establishing their very own careers.
© ShutterstockNikolai graduated from Copenhagen Enterprise College with a Grasp of Science in Merchandising diploma final summer time. The Danish royal, who’s courting mannequin Benedikte Thoustrup, has carved out his personal modelling profession and travels steadily to Australia, the place he studied for a semester.
Felix is learning Worldwide Delivery and Commerce training at Copenhagen Enterprise College, and like his brother, has secured his personal modelling contracts.
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Joachim and Marie do steadily journey again to Denmark to see their household. Whereas the couple spent Christmas with French-born Marie’s household, they have been among the many visitors as King Frederik and Queen Mary hosted their first New Yr’s galas at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen.
© KongehusetAnd whereas Marie and her youngsters couldn’t attend Frederik’s accession ceremony in Copenhagen in January 2024, Joachim was current to proudly witness the second his brother was proclaimed king.
Queen Margrethe abdicated after 52 years on the throne in favour of her eldest son, Frederik.
The previous Danish queen brought on upset in 2022 when she stripped Joachim’s 4 youngsters of their royal titles.
© ShutterstockShe later publicly apologised to Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena, stating: “Holding a royal title entails a variety of commitments and duties that, sooner or later, will lie with fewer members of the royal household. This adjustment, which I view as a essential future-proofing of the monarchy, I need to absorb my very own time.
© Getty“I’ve made my resolution as queen, mom and grandmother, however, as a mom and grandmother, I’ve underestimated the extent to which a lot my youthful son and his household really feel affected. That makes a giant impression, and for that I’m sorry.”
Since 1 January 2023, Joachim’s youngsters have been styled as Counts and Countess of Monpezat and addressed as his/her excellency.
