Enough princess Mary!

The BBQ Pit
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When am I going to be mature enough not to snigger at this line?

The last week has been plenty, even given that they seem more than nice enough people for that indefensible parasitic throwback institution. If I’m in the queue at the supermarket any time in the next decade and Mary’s on the cover of some deadshit self-hating chick-mag, she’d better be squeezing out the pups in a seriously exotic situation (Space. The Northwest passage, if pictured). If she goes bulemic I don’t want to know unless she cracks the cistern from the pike position. If Freddie talks to trees it ain’t news unless the tree offers a palindromic opinion about the price of fish in Greenland.

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Yeah, but where’s this ‘Denmark’??

Anyway, everyone quit whining. You didn’t have to live through Princess Diana-mania twice over. This is just a temporary detraction from the important stuff, like Michael Jackson’s latest moves…

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That’s probably because here in the U.S. we almost never hear any news about any royal family except the British.

By all accounts Continental royalty lives on a much more modest scale than their English counterparts, or so I’ve heard.

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Yeah, Frederik and Mary met at the Slip Inn during the 2000 Sydney olympics. He introduced himself as “Fred”. :slight_smile:

Incidentally, this seems to be some sort of Scandinavian royal tradition. The current Swedish king, Carl XVI Gustaf, met the then-Silvia Sommerlath at the 1972 Munich olympics, where she was working as a hostess and interpreter.

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Is it too late to get tickets to Athens this August?

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It’s 24 hours since the wedding and the party seems still to be going on at the Slip Inn (where the happy couple met).

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Are you kidding? Diana STILL pops up on the front page of womans magazines, it seems almost monthly. “Yup, she’s still dead.”

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I do believe that someone else gets credit for that.

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Did you know that the British monarchy is the only one left that uses a whole coronation ceremony instead of a simple oath?

Jeez. What the hell is the point of having a monarchy if you can’t use it as an excuse for semi-medieval spectacle, I say.

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I am hoping to get on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire so that when Eddie asks me a question about royalty I can say, “Lock in E Eddie, ‘Who cares’”

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Is she going to be a queen regnant or just a consort?

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An earlier geographical thread firmly settled this question. Amsterdam and the Hague are co-capitals of Denmark. This logically leads to the conclusion that Denmark is a province of the Netherlands. Sheesh. Don’t you people know anything?

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Funny thing Libertarian, here in Argentina the only royalty were the Borbones. Till one argentinian girl married the prince of neatherlands. Now we know his genealogy better than him…

There is something romantic about royalty. Who would like to know more about our President Nestor Kirchner? (a quick google will show you that he is the ugliest son of the bitch ever). So we dream about Charles (the second ugliest son of the bitch ever), and family.

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She’s going to become queen since she married the crown prince. Had it been the other way round, a boy who married the crown-princess, he would only have become prince (never king) since only regents are called kings.

Oh boy, is that going to come back and haunt you when it’s your time to knock on Valhall’s gate

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Feh! I’ve been to Valhall and it was pretty lame (it is an attraction at Tivoli).

Well, hubby, a dane, couldn’t care less about monarchy but still sat hours staring at the wedding and parade on the Spanish channel TVE. There’s something about being far away from home that makes you enjoy anything they show on TV… even royal weddings.

We are heading for Vikingland in three days. That it is after the wedding IS NOT a coincidence.

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Do search on Google Images for Nestor Kirchner and look at photo no. 21. Now, do you still think he’s the ugliest SOB ever? Not only do we have the stupidest president in the history of humanity, but also a strong contender for the ugliest. Ugly Argentinian presidents… you wish!

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As Rune said, but to clarify, she will not reign. If Frederik dies first, she will become a Dowager Queen and their (assumed) child will reign.

Another little history lesson: The current Queen Magrethe II is married to Prince Henrik (who is French, and IIRC is minor royalty in his own right), a Prince Consort. Magrethe’s father, Frederik IX, was married to Queen Ingrid, who became the Dowager Queen in 1973 at his death. She was a Swedish princess herself, and only died a few years ago at age 90.

Why is all this stuff taking up space in my head, anyway?

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Whoops, make that 1972. Sorry.

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I think that the alternating Frederiks and Christians custom started with the son and grandson of the first Margrethe (who was also Queen of Norway and Sweden, IIRC). Frederik is the lineal descendent of Gorm the Old in something like 850 AD, although I think there’s a transfer through an heiress when the line broke somewhere back in history. The royal house, if anybody wants to know, rejoices in being the House of Holstein-Slesvik-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which may explain why they signed stuff Frederik R. (for Rex) and Margrethe R. (for Regina).

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There’s new rollercoaster this year, and it should be pretty OK. I know the dude whose job it was to travel the world on business-class to do rollercoaster-research. Nice work if you can get it… Incidentally, the Prince Consort apparently had the court call a few days before the season started - he’d been reading about this new rollercoaster, and would they mind letting him give it a testride ? Not the sort of stuff you say no to, so they let the royal limo park in front of the gates and Prince Henrik and the limo driver took a few rides.

Heh, I did the same. What the heck, it’s an impressive show.

Polycarp:

Also explains why the princes were the only recruits addressed by their first names during their military service. The Crown Prince has signed up for sports events under the name “Frederik Henriksen” (“Frederik, son of Henrik”) quite a few times. He’s a pretty decent long-distance runner - did a marathon in 03:07, IIRC.