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I think you are mistaken. The decision was the right choice made to give the four children of her younger son more freedom to shape their lives. Both Nikolai and Felix have modelled and Royals and commerce is always a tricky situation. As counts of Monpezat they have the freedom to earn their living as they choose to (within limits of course as they still are the nephews of the current monarch and in line of succession).

Queen Margrethe decided that it was much better if she did it because she did not want Frederik to have to do it because she did not want it to compromise the brothers.


Monarchies these days are in a tricky situation on the one hand you want enough heir(esse)s to secure the succession but people are not willing to pay for a long line of Royals. In most European monarchies we see a movement to only the core of the family being paid by the state. The rest of them need to make a living and it's a lot easier to do that without the title of prince(ss) of [country]. Look at Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her commercial activities, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and his design business and this week Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands had to pull out as co-chair of foundation dealing with a political tricky issue of parental benefits.

Frederik and Mary have already made it clear only Christian as crownprince will get a state income and that in future they will see what the best solution is for the titles of their three younger children.


Margrethe referred to how things were done in Sweden where King Carl Gustav lowered the status of his grandchildren by his two younger children while they were still small, the choice made to not style the children of the Duke of Edinburgh as HRH prince(ss) and the children of the two younger sons of Beatrix of the Netherlands.