A combative media, a colonial past and rebellious children. Can other royal families help the UK's new monarch?
"What has been amazing through this whole cycle has been the conversations we've all had through it all," she says.
Last year Queen Margrethe II of Denmark announced that she was cutting four of her eight grandchildren from the royal payroll and stripping them of their royal titles of prince and princess. It was all part of a bid to slim down the royal household and cut expenses - something King Charles also wants to do.The grandchildren's father, Prince Joachim, the Queen's youngest son, reportedly only heard the news from a courtier. That hurt.
The statement made headlines, went a long way to defusing the crisis and helped the royals stay relevant. King Leopold's great-great-great-grandson, the current King of Belgium, Philippe III, recently issued a letter of regret for his ancestor's past. But it was not an apology. And for one member of the royal household the king didn't go far enough.Philippe's aunt, Princess Marie-Esmerelda, is far more outspoken. "We have to face the past, especially when we see that racism is really structural in our societies and that comes directly from slavery, from colonialism.
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