Just when you thought you were safe from hearing more heartbreak about how tough it is being part of a royal family, a new ‘”spare” is heading to America.
Like Britain’s Prince Harry, Denmark’s Prince Joachim (pronounced Yorkin) has created a constitutional crisis in his native country by publicly falling out with his once-beloved brother and his monarch parent.
Unlike Harry, he’s working for his country’s embassy in Washington, DC, on an enormous salary.
The 53-year-old, who is sixth in line to the Danish throne, will become defense industry attaché at the Embassy of Denmark and is moving to the capital with his glamorous wife, Princess Marie, and their two children.
He won’t be paid for the role but instead, the Danish parliament has agreed, he will continue with his royal stipend of 300,000 Danish Krone — some $48,000 a month.
The prince’s mother, Queen Margrethe — who has ruled Denmark for 50 of her 82 years — may be hoping that this move will be the end of a drama which has shone attention on one of the world’s oldest monarchies for all the wrong reasons.
The problems started last year when the queen — who was a third cousin of Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth, Harry’s grandmother, through Queen Victoria — announced that, beginning in 2023, Joachim’s four children would lose their titles of Prince and Princess.
Joachim, who is estimated to be worth $275 million thanks to smart stock investments and substantial property holdings, was openly incensed that his children — models and socialites Nikolai, 23, and Felix, 20, from his first marriage to Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg; and Henrik, 13 and Athena, 11 , from his second marriage to Princess Marie — would all lose their royal titles.
Claiming he’d had just five days’ notice, Joachim said: “I can say my children are sad. My kids don’t know which leg to stand on. What they should believe. Why should…
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