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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-margrethe-of-denmark-strips-four-grandkids-of-royal-titles">Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II</a> acknowledged Monday that she had “underestimated” how her son would react to her bombshell decision to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-margrethe-of-denmark-strips-four-grandkids-of-royal-titles">strip her grandkids of their royal titles</a>—but she would nonetheless be standing firm.</p>
<p>Margrethe, who is 82 and the longest-reigning monarch in Europe, announced last week that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-margrethe-of-denmark-strips-four-grandkids-of-royal-titles">her son Prince Joachim’s four children</a> would no longer be called prince or princess, or his or her highness. She insisted the decision had been discussed at length, and would allow the grandkids to “shape their own lives to a much greater extent.”</p>
<p>But an enraged Joachim told reporters that he had been blindsided by the move, grousing that his kids were upset at suddenly losing their identities. “Why must they be punished in that way?” he fumed.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/denmarks-queen-margrethe-ii-apologizes-for-pissing-off-prince-joachim-but-will-still-strip-grandkids-titles?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Margrethe, who is 82 and the longest-reigning monarch in Europe, announced last week that her son Prince Joachim’s four children would no longer be called prince or princess, or his or her highness. She insisted the decision had been discussed at length, and would allow the grandkids to “shape their own lives to a much greater extent.”
But an enraged Joachim told reporters that he had been blindsided by the move, grousing that his kids were upset at suddenly losing their identities. “Why must they be punished in that way?” he fumed.
