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From listening and reading interviews he gave, he had no regrets of marrying the young woman and the subsequent 50+ years they shared. He was very disappointed that the Queen did not make him King Consort. He separated the two. Previous Message
As I've said time and again: if a royal HAS to marry a commoner, the least he can do is to marry a foreigner. The spouse would not have any family nearby to make the rounds of the local tabloids.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark did well to insist that her sons marry outsiders: "We Danish royals do not marry Danes." It's difficult to see that the mingling of classes through marriage in Norway, over the decades, has strengthened the monarchy there.
Even before this latest scandal, I had doubts and questions about the state of Haakon and Mette-Marit's marriage -- the exact nature of their relationship. She doesn't appear to be a very active person on the royal scene and fulfilling her duties, as expected of a future queen consort. Of course, she can be excused somewhat because of her health problems ...
It seems to me that the prince married her out of infatuation, rather than love. Gone are the days of duty when a royal sets aside personal feelings when searching for a suitable spouse ... when children born of unequal unions (who would have been morganauts, made to feel an inferiority complex over their status) would seek to raise their stock by marrying back up into royalty. We saw this in the Tecks, the Battenbergs, and the descendants of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará (from the house of Orléans-Braganza in Brazil).
Instead, the children of His Majesty King Harald V find justification in what they did on the grounds that it was what their own father had done: marrying a native Norwegian commoner ...
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