2024-01-16 04:05:00
Frederick X, Genevieve Casanova and Queen Margaret II
What was too effusive, what was out of place, what seemed sincere, what seemed uncomfortable… After the proclamation of King Frederick now queen consort Mary Donaldson, on the balcony of Christiansborg Castle, seat of Parliament. And not only because this act of romanticism between the spouses was out of protocol, but also because, strikingly, such a public demonstration of love came two months following the first-born of the outgoing queen Margaret II was surprised by the paparazzi in an alleged infidelity. .
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At the beginning of November, the magazine Lecturas had published a series of photos of the then Danish prince in Madrid, with the actress Genovesa Casanova, Cayetano Martínez de Irujo’s ex, with whom he had his two children, Amina and Luis. According to the publication, both had been walking without being recognized by people through Retiro Park, with an escort who followed them at a safe distance, and then enjoyed an intimate dinner and ended up spending the night in the Mexican woman’s apartment.
It should be remembered that Federico and Mary have been married since 2004 and have four children: Cristian, Isabel, Vicente and Josefina. And that she has the highest popularity index of the royal family, with more than 83% positive opinions according to a survey by the Epinion Institute, compared to 79% for the new king. In fact, there are those who claim that the Australian would actually be the one who would pull the strings of the Copenhagen Palace due to her great influence on the population.
King Frederick X and Queen Mary (EUROPA PRESS)
For all this, in the face of what threatened to become a true scandal, Margarita decided to bring forward her abdication, which she finally announced on the night of December 31. And last Sunday, following signing the decree with which he left behind more than half a century on the throne in front of a Council of State, he managed to gather a crowd that gathered to celebrate the proclamation of his son in the hands of the prime minister. Danish, Mette Frederiksen. But the truth is that the entire European press is attentive, since it would not be the first time Federico would have been involved in rumors of adultery.
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Born on May 26, 1968, the 55-year-old current monarch was the first child of the outgoing queen and Prince Henry, who died in 2018. His given name was chosen according to the family custom of calling children Frederick or Christian. heirs. He has only one brother, Prince Joachim, who was born a year later. And since he was young he had to deal with the flashes that followed him in the sun and in the shade and made him extremely uncomfortable.
Federico attended primary school at Krebs Skole, a private school in the Danish capital, and then attended a boarding school in Normandy, France. And in the ’90s, the media came to nickname him the “party prince” because of his love of fast cars. However, following his time at Aarhus University, where in 1995 he managed to become the first member of the Danish royal to obtain a master’s degree in Political Science, he began to gain followers. In fact, he also studied for a year at Harvard, where he enrolled as Frederik Henriksen in honor of his father and began to outline his path to the throne.
Queen Margaret II of Denmark with Frederick during her visit to Argentina (Nicolás Stulberg)
From that moment on, the monarch, who also speaks French, English and German, did everything in his power to have the approval of his family. While in the United States, he earned his diplomatic stripes by serving in Denmark’s mission to the UN for several months in 1994. And in 1998, he was posted to Paris for a year as first secretary of the Danish embassy.
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The truth is that, in addition to being a decorated military man, Federico has proven to be a great athlete. In the elite Frogman Corps of the Navy, he received the nickname “Pingo” for his way of swimming, agile as a penguin. In 2000, he was part of a four-month expedition and traveled 2,795 km by dog sled through northern Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. And, throughout these years, he has participated in multiple marathons, both in Copenhagen, Paris and New York, becoming in 2013 the first member of royalty to compete in an Iroman and reach the finish line in a time of 10 :45:32. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee between 2009 and 2021. And in 2018 he created the Royal Run, one of the most popular running events in his country.
An environmentalist and committed to climate change, the current king is willing to conquer the new generations with a much more relaxed style than that of his mother. However, the greatest fear of the royal house has to do with the “mistakes” that are attributed to the current monarch and that on more than one occasion have kept his mother in suspense. And, starting with Queen Margaret, Mary has managed to win the hearts of all the Danes who would not be willing to put up with Frederick making her shed even a tear.
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