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All Happy Families Are Alike; Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way

Alexandr Radayev

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All Happy Families Are Alike; Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way

The children of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially received the titles of Prince and Princess.

At the same time, the children of Prince Joachim of Denmark, likewise the younger child of a reigning monarch, were this year stripped of their titles of prince and princess. Yes, those very Danish princes with modelling careers, 23-year-old Nikolai and 20-year-old Felix, as well as their half-brother Henrik, 13, and half-sister Athena, 10, no longer have the right to be styled princes and princesses or Royal Highnesses. The decision of the outwardly peaceable and kindly Queen Margrethe is, by her own account, connected with the benefit of the crown in the future. Moreover, nothing is known of any conflicts between the queen and her younger son Joachim.

The decision of King Charles of England is, evidently, connected with the appeasement of the unruly, problematic elements of the royal family.

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By Alexandr Radayev