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Grave Royal Issue

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark's husband, Prince Henrik of Denmark has announced that when he passes he does not want to be buried next to his wife. The reason behind this very unusual and in my opinion quite mean wish is that he is displeased that he has never and never will be his wife, the Queen's equal in his lifetime. Therefore he does not want to be her equal in death if he was not her equal in life. Therefore the married couple will not be traditionally buried together at Roskilde Cathedral when the time comes for them to depart from this world.

As a review of the couple's history: Prince Henrik met his future wife the then Crown Princess Margrethe in London when he was stationed as a diplomat. They married in 1967. They have two sons and eight grandchildren.

Now to most people, getting a royal title is a big deal and they would be, for the most part happy with whatever title they received. This was not the case for Prince Henrik.

In Denmark, when the Crown Princess became queen, it was expected that her husband would be Prince Consort, as is the custom in Denmark and many other monarchies. But Prince Henrik was not happy with being Prince Consort. He wanted, and has repeatedly said that he would much rather be a King Consort, not a Prince Consort.

A spokeswoman has confirmed that the Prince's choice has been accepted by Queen Margrethe. Queen Margrethe, on the other hand will be buried at Roskilde Cathedral.

The Prince currently spends most of his time in a vineyard in France but is still married to the Queen and officially lives with her.

But to be fair to Queen Margrethe, since I think we have personally been putting a lot of the blame on her for the choices of her husband, I would like to point out that being the monarch of a country is truly a one person job. Queen Margrethe is alone in a way because nobody in her close family can really relate to how hard her job is. I think that we should not blame her for all of Prince Henrik's unhappiness.

 File:HM The Queen of Denmark.jpgFile:Prince Henrik of Denmark 21-06-2005.jpg



Photo of Margrethe by: Holger Motzkau
Photo of Henrik by: Erik Christensen
Information from; uk.news.yahoo.com

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