Queen’s eldest son Daisy and consequently heir to the Danish throne, Prince Frederick revealed, for the first time publicly, through a documentary, recorded in 2018, how terrifying it was to know that he would be king. “I imagined my life going out and that I would suddenly have to behave like a complete adult. It was extremely uncomfortable. Especially since there weren’t many people who could explain to me what that meant.”he mentioned openly at the time.
with the rise of Charles III to the British throne, Frederick becomes the crown prince who has been waiting the longest to be king. However, on several occasions the prince described the idea of being king as “big, intimidating, dark, and unpleasant”.
During his youth, the difficulty in accepting his future was reflected in some scandals. After being caught by the police driving drunk, many were those who asked him to renounce his dynastic rights and that he be his younger brother, the prince Joaquimto occupy the first place in the line of succession to the throne
After this incident, which took place on New Year’s Eve in 1992, the queen sent her son to study at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States, in order to calm the voices calling for the prince to abdicate. But not even that decision calmed the prince and stopped him from experiencing “a normal life”how to get tattoos, act as a DJ and show your passion for cars and motorcycles.
It was thanks to another passion, for sport, that the prince began to gain popularity among the Danish people, having participated in several sports competitions and marathons. Later, in 2004, Frederico celebrated his union with the Australian lawyer Mary Donaldson, with whom he had four children. This moment also contributed to the acceptance by Denmark, which began to see him as a respected and more mature family man.
However, at the age of 82, the Danish monarch celebrates this year 50 years as Head of State of her country, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and, with the death of Elizabeth II, becomes the only woman at the head of a European monarchy, having ascended to the throne in 1972, after the death of her father, Frederick IX. According to France 24, the monarch usually says that “shall remain on the throne until he falls”, so Prince Frederick should only ascend to the throne after his mother’s death.
