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You never watch Top Gear on 3+? That's a pity. You should, it's very entertaining and I understand that one of the hosts, Richard Hammond has a considerable female following.

The Stig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_stig

No, I don´t want to pay for that channel, ´cause when I did pay I didn´t watch it, so... I´ll spare the money :rose:

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You never watch Top Gear on 3+? That's a pity. You should, it's very entertaining and I understand that one of the hosts, Richard Hammond has a considerable female following.

The Stig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_stig

No, I don´t want to pay for that channel, ´cause when I did pay I didn´t watch it, so... I´ll spare the money :rose:

But after watching a few videos on Youtube I second you - With The Stig as pilot this incident would never had happened :fan: :fan: :no2:

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And here is a gallery of Henrik as falconer or eagle handler or whatever it is. http://www.bt.dk/royale/prins-henrik-som-falconer

It's an American bald eagle and a magnificent bird. I believe it's called a white headed sea egle here in DK but it's not natural to this part of the world. Instaed we have quite a few White Tailed Eagle (Havørn) and also a number of Golden Eagles (Kongeørn).

The gallery is from QMII and PH's visit to Samsø, a very lovely island.

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And another gallery with Henrik as a falconer: http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...20falconer.aspx

From Billed Bladet.

I must confess that I couldn't care less about Henrik seeing these pics. I'm deeply fascinated by birds, any bird.

One of the delights of my life is to watch the birds feeding from the bird table in our garden. - That is until our resident hunter intervenes, in the shape of our dog, who believe it is his duty to chase the birds away. And he is so proud with himself when he returns to daddy, that I can't bring myself to tell him what a daft dog he is.

I have a feeling that the local crows tease him. Sometimes he go berserk in the garden and when we go out to investigate we have sometimes seen crows fly away. - And he sure is proud, having once again successfully defended his family and the refrigerator. :shrug:

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Thanks for the link and insight into the Muhler family! I wonder however how Prince Hendrik got his monogrammed raptor gloved hands on one of our North American bald eagles. These birds are protected quite ferociously by wildlife services here. :D

And another gallery with Henrik as a falconer: http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...20falconer.aspx

From Billed Bladet.

I must confess that I couldn't care less about Henrik seeing these pics. I'm deeply fascinated by birds, any bird.

One of the delights of my life is to watch the birds feeding from the bird table in our garden. - That is until our resident hunter intervenes, in the shape of our dog, who believe it is his duty to chase the birds away. And he is so proud with himself when he returns to daddy, that I can't bring myself to tell him what a daft dog he is.

I have a feeling that the local crows tease him. Sometimes he go berserk in the garden and when we go out to investigate we have sometimes seen crows fly away. - And he sure is proud, having once again successfully defended his family and the refrigerator. :shrug:

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While at the airshow in Skrydstrup Queen Margrethe visited an exhibition about the Female Flying Corps = Kvindeligt Flyverkorps, where she served as a young woman.

http://www.hjv.dk/Nyheder/Sider/DronningMa...Skrydstrup.aspx

Running trough terrain was a favourite discipline of QMII.

She finished as major.

The corps was disbanded in 1989, where it until then had been a WAC corps attached to the Air Home Guard.

Nowadays women serve on equal footing as men in the Home Guard.

- In my time in the Army Home Guard, we had Wac's attached. Usually at the HQ company or as medics. We were armed with rifles, the girls were armed with submachineguns, which were next to useless in that role. On top of that they were trained to fire single shots, a completely hopeless thing to do when defending yourselves against opponents armed with assault rifles. But to fire automatic salvoes would be just as bad as you use a lot of amminution, make a lot of noice (actually one of the main purposes of doing it) and hit very little. - That is unless you really know what you are doing.

But the rifles we used, M-75, were deemed to heavy for women.

Anyway the girls did fine. Except for the patrol (recce) platoons, they could keep up with the rest of us.

But the introduction of the M-95 rifle, along with experiences from Balkan, Iraq and Afghanistan has made it so much easier for women to be an active part of the Home Guard. And indeed the number of girls joining the Home guard has risen markedly over the last few years. - Now some are serving with Home Guard units in Afghanistan.

Where a soldier, a doghandler, from the air force was killed today.

ADDED: Keep an eye on the Homeguard site in mid September. Total Defence Region Copenhagen, to which Mary belongs, will hold a major excersize by then.

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In a Q&A in Billed Bladet #24, 2010.

A Henrik Simonsen asks whether it's true that Prince Henrik's Grandfather (farfar) killed someone.

Jon Bloch Skipper replies that it is indeed true.

It happened on the 4. September 1918, When PH's grandfather, Henri de Laborde Montpezat, had a fight with captain Joseph Demenach who had an affair with his wife.

During the fight Henri Montpezat drew a gun and shot the captain, who later died.

In November 1918 Henri Montepezat got a five year prison sentence, suspended.

He died in 1929.

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Thank you, commoner for the links.

Courtesy of SDT, BT and Google Translate.

http://svenskdam.se/2010/06/drottning-marg...an-pa-faroarna/

Some photos.

http://www.bt.dk/royale/margrethe-og-henri...-paa-faeroeerne

"Margrethe og Henrik i modvind paa faeroeerne."

http://translate.google.se/translate?js=y&...sl=da&tl=en

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In a Q&A in Billed Bladet #24, 2010.

A Henrik Simonsen asks whether it's true that Prince Henrik's Grandfather (farfar) killed someone.

Jon Bloch Skipper replies that it is indeed true.

It happened on the 4. September 1918, When PH's grandfather, Henri de Laborde Montpezat, had a fight with captain Joseph Demenach who had an affair with his wife.

During the fight Henri Montpezat drew a gun and shot the captain, who later died.

In November 1918 Henri Montepezat got a five year prison sentence, suspended.

He died in 1929.

Hi Muhler, Where on the Internet can I get information about this?

Thanks.

Royalist

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From the Faeroe Islands and Prince Henrik in his usual in good form:-)

www.billedbladet.dk/...

Btw I don't think I don't think these pictures have been posted yet:-)

ekstrabladet.dk/flash/... and Gallery

Der Lebemann Prince Henrik at a Variety Show at the amusement park “Bakken” . IMO each Royal Family has to have a (out of)character in their fold, someone to break the flow once in a while or else it gets a little too streamlined and boring. In the DRF it’s Prince Henrik. Even EB writes somewhat endearingly about the above outing:-) Who is going to take over his role in the future?:-)

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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #26, 2010.

Slog sig løs på Bakken - Let his hair down at Bakken.

Written by Trine Larsen. (She usually specialise in Joachim and Alexandra and their families).

As you can tell from the pictures Prince Henrik and a number of his friends had a fun time in the amusement park, Bakken.

He started out in Bakkens Hvile, where women of ill repute used to sing song children and small dogs shouldn't hear! They are of course now professional.

He was placed in a chair on stage and asked: "Shall I also sing"? And proceeded to sing a French love song: "Chanson d'Amour", while hugging the singing-girl, Dot Wessman (*) who in return sang a more folksy song, from the 1930's I believe. (It's pure nostalgia).

It didn't end there however. Henrik and his friends went for a ride in the rollercoaster and the water-rollercoaster and despite sitting between two friends he was pretty wet, when the ride was over! He laughed: "I hope I'll get dry because I'm going to Zirkus Nemo with my wife (**) later".

After all this and presumably still while he was wet he popped by the Cirkusrevyen (***) where he had a chat with the manager. The main poster for the revue depicts actors showing QMII and Henrik and the manager asked: "Do the Prince Consort think it resembles"?

Henrik laughed: "The clothes can resemble, that's very fine. But he hasn't got as big a belly as I".

Henrik got a little bit of time to dry up a little before meeting QMII nearby. They were going to Zirkus Nemo.

Zirkus Nemo is not a cirkus but a comedy show, with the actor and comedian Søren Østergaard. It's a very quirky humour and he did indeed perform at QMII's 70 birthday as he is one of her favourite comedian.

And the show was a success. PH & QMII were there with a number of their old friends and Prince Had to wipe tears of laughter away while Queen Margrethe laughed heartily.

(*) She is dating a politician in the EU-Parliament.

(**) Using the informal word for wife.

(***) A revue. Something pretty unique for Denmark. Every summer there are loads of revues all over DK, which in songs and scetches deal with current affairs and happenings since the year before in a satirical. The DRF are of course prime targets.

Some are performed by amateurs some by professionals. This one, Cirkusrevyen, is the best known in DK, the tickets are incidentally sold out. Some of the very best parodies of the DRF have been seen in this revue.

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And not sure where to put this one....

In Billed Bladet #26, 2010 a Ulla Rasmussen asks about Queen Margrethe's drooping eye.

Jon Bloch Skipper explains:

Since her childhood QMII has had a tendency to squint her left eye, when she is tired or not concentrated.

According to the doctor Erik Münster the reason is a lack of balance in the muscles which control the eye.

QMII wear glasses with minus 4.5 on her right eye and plus 0.25 on her left eye.

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In a Q&A in Billed Bladet #24, 2010.

A Henrik Simonsen asks whether it's true that Prince Henrik's Grandfather (farfar) killed someone.

Jon Bloch Skipper replies that it is indeed true.

It happened on the 4. September 1918, When PH's grandfather, Henri de Laborde Montpezat, had a fight with captain Joseph Demenach who had an affair with his wife.

During the fight Henri Montpezat drew a gun and shot the captain, who later died.

In November 1918 Henri Montepezat got a five year prison sentence, suspended.

He died in 1929.

Hi Muhler, Where on the Internet can I get information about this?

Thanks.

Royalist

I don't know, but you can read about it in these two books: "Les Laborde de Montpezats et leurs alliances" by Joseph Valynseele and "Destiny oblige" by Prince Henrik.

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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #26, 2010.

Hu-hej hvor det går - Woo-hoo we're rocking.

Written by Annelise Weimann, who specialise in the Regent Couple and the CP-couple.

QMII & PH visited the Faroe Islands. For QMII it's the thirteenth time she is there and she is very fond of the rugged nature there.

Actually they flew there, then sailed out to Dannebrog so they could arrive officially and in style to the capital of Thorshavn.

One of the official task while up there is to attend a party. That means being recieved and treated to Eldvatn, which litterally means firewater = a wee dramm.

After the official dinner it was time for some dancing Faroeyar style! I.e. lining up in two lines, holding hands and dance away while singing countless verses. Queen Margrethe being profficient in Faroese, sang along while dancing - to all the verses! Prince Henrik who is less than proficient, did not.

Many wore the local folk costume, which costs about 20.000 DKK. (1 € = 7.6 DKK, so you do the math).

For once her hairdresser Poul Nejlund did not accompany the Queen, so she did her hair herself.

The party ended late at night but it was still light outside. At this time of the year the night are rarely completely dark over the eighteen islands that constitute the Faroe Islands. (Even in DK it's only dark for three or four hours at this time of the summer.

Traditional cooking is in again on the Faroe Islands and QMII & PH were served stuffed sheeps-head and they both seem to appreciate it.

The visit will be covered in more details next week.

And this concludes the summaries from this weeks edition of Billed Bladet. :rolleyes:

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As you may know, Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik have now returned from the Faroe Islands and they have now taken up residence at Marseliborg Manor, where they spend a number of weeks every year.

The local newspaper, Århus Stiftstidende has of course covered the whole thing.

Including a buffet Saturday evening in the garden. 130 guests where there. It's a socalled local reception with local politicians and other dignitaries.

The gentlemen were suffering in suit and tie, because it was very hot that day! The ladies wearing light summerdresses.

The buffet/reception ended at 21.00.

One of the politicians, from Socialist People's Party, Dorthe Laustsen said: "I'm not a big fan of the monarchy, but they are here and then I believe we should treat them with consideration. That's why I'm here". (*)

A music corps from the army entertained the guests.

Here is an article: http://stiften.dk/article/20100704/AAS/707039790/1003

And a gallery: http://spotted.stiften.dk/galleries/index.php?id=3558

I don't know what the plate is, presumably a present for QMII.

(*) Well, that was mighty kind of her. The cynic within me cannot help wondering if her attitude will be moderated a bit more, once she recieve her first order...

Her party chairman, the very popular and in many ways the de facto leader of the opposition, Willy Søvndal, certainly have no qualms about rubbing shoulders with royalty.

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Summary of a number of articles in Billed Bladet #27, 2010.

All written by Annelise Weimann, who specialise in the Regent Couple and the CP-couple.

It was the thirteenth time Queen Margrethe visited the eighteen islands that constitute the Faroe Islands. (*)

After having arrived to Thorshavn and been recieved in style it was time for a tour of the islands. Unfortunately the weather in the North Atlantic is very unpredictable, so a visit to two islands had to be skipped.

Prince Henrik, who suffered from pains to his legs, also had to skip an event or two.

One of the visits was to the island of Mykenes. But in a climate where the weather can change within the hour, that almost had to be cancelled, but sudden hole in the skis enabled the Regent Couple to fly to Mykenes and the ten inhabitants who were waiting. Including two children and a school teacher.

The small communities on the Farose islands are known to be religously devout so there is also a church on the island.

There are as elsewhere on the islands, loads of birds nesting on the cliff faces, that includes the gannet, which only breed on this island.

Apart from the ten humans there are thousands of sheep on the island.

Now, an official visit also includes visiting various businesses, industry, schools and that was of course the case here. But also a visit into the Nordoya-tunnel, which is 7.5 kilometres long connectiong two islands. The special thing about this tunnel is the light. A local artist has arranged the illumination in a more spectacular fashion. (**)

Prince Henrik, who doesn't speak of word of the local lingo, contended himself by, in his usual jolly manner, asking every child within eyesight: "What's your name? - How old are you"? In Danish. - With a heavy French accent. Apart from that he was very interested in the local cuisine, hoping to find some inspiration for a new recipe.

The scenery on the Faroe islands is spectacular to say the least! So the Regent Couple were sailed to Hestoy to see the cliffs with nesting birds there. The sea that day was fairly calm, meaning that 95% of the human race would be hopelessly seasick. Not so the Regent Couple, they are rarely affected by a few waves. (***)

The cliffs are a major tourist attraction (****) and they are among the highest in the world. In the old peple lowered themselves down from cliff tops to pick eggs, now they just do it for sport. (*****)

After having admired the birds and perhaps visa versa it was time for some culture, so the boat sailed into the Klæmints Cave, where three musicians entertained in a setting with a pretty impressive acoustic.

All this bring about a healthy appetite so they sailed to Koltur island, where the two inhabitants there treated the Regent Couple to a lunch and a wee dramm. In fact the population on that island increased with several thousand percent that day as a number of locals also went to the island, including a somewhat reversed flower girl, in the shape of one year old Lykke Maria, who was so intrigued with the bouquet QMII was holding that the Queen gave the girl a neat lilac flower.

Now, if you live on an island with two inhabitans, chances are that your dinner table isn't that big. As such only the inhabitants and the Regent Couple could sit at the table, everybody else had to eat on the grass outside.

Another reason for visiting this island was to see how things had progressed in regards to restoring a number of beautiful old houses. And one house was duly opened by the Queen. (******)

During the press conference at the end of the visit a TV reporter quoted a local girl, who defined a queen as: "A wife/mature woman who is in charge".

QMII: "That is sort of a good description of what it could be".

Q: Who is in charge in your household?

QMII: "Who is in charge at our home? You'd rather ask my husband about that".

Q: Everywhere you have been surrounded by children. Have you begun to be more interested in small children, after you have become a grandmother (farmor) yourself?

QMII: "Who knows, but that might be".

The Queen, who has openly admitted that she previously felt (and looked) very akward when dealing with smaller children, was seen to be much more at ease with the children she encountered on this visit.

(*) About 45.000 inhabitants in total. A little less than the total number of inhabitants of Greenland.

(**) A lot of tunnels were built a number of years ago at a huge cost, leading the Danish taxpayes to more or less foot the bill. That resulted of course in a number of less than flattering jokes in Denmark about the ongoing tunnel constructions, including joking about plans for a tunnel connecting Thorshavn and Copenhagen.

And labbelling the island the Bankruptcy-Islands. The Faroese didn't think that was amusing!

(***) Nor are Frederik and Joachim. QMII in a recent documentary didn't mention Mary as having strong sealegs.

(****) If the weather even permits you going there or you are not lying in the bottom of the boat, wishing you were dead.

(*****) The scale of human folly never cease to amase me.

(******) The clever reader may ask her/himself why on earth you would wish to spend money on restoring houses on an island inhabited by two humans. - I don't know...

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