Queen Margaret of Denmark left her subjects stunned with her New Year’s speech, announcing that next Sunday, January 14, the 52nd anniversary of her accession to the throne, she will abdicate in favor of her first-born son, Prince Frederick, who will pass to be King Frederick X.
A moment that will remember the one experienced just a few months ago in the United Kingdom with the coronation of King Charles III, not only in pageantry, but also with the guests and the controversies in the royal family. Queen Margaret’s youngest son, Prince Joachim, will attend the event alone, staying in Copenhagen as little as possible. His wife, Princess Marie, has decided to stay in Washington (USA) where she resides with her children, and she will not attend the ceremony.
An absence that some already describe as “royal rudeness” and that is undoubtedly reminiscent of the decisions made at the time by Prince Henry, youngest son of Charles III of England. However, it seems that Marie Cavallier’s absence would have a reason.
According to the press officer of the Danish Royal Palace, Lene Balleby, Princess Marie will not go to Christianborg Palace because “the children go to school, there is no special reason.” However, it seems that this situation has only brought to light the bad relationship that exists between the brothers-in-law.
That the brothers have been on bad terms since their youth is no secret to anyone, but it seems that this enmity would have also been transferred to their wives. Princesses Mary and Marie would not get along at all, and it would all begin in an event in 2005, when after the wedding of Princes Frederick and Mary, the Danish media kept saying that Prince Joachim was in love with the newlywed. .
Information that gained strength again in 2007, when the engagement to Marie Cavallier was made official, due to the striking resemblance between the two. After Prince Joaquín’s wedding to the French woman, there was a huge crisis when a media outlet published an image of Joaquín and Mary about to kiss, something that Marie did not like at all.
Queen Margaret did not let it go, and started a campaign to try to cleanse the image of the two sisters-in-law. However, the public actors in which both have been seen together have been very rare. Furthermore, the interviews granted by Prince Joaquín, ensuring that her role as “second boy” made him dissatisfied and the fact that the queen withdrew the titles of Royal Highness from her children only deepened that enmity.
