Joachim y Marie Cavallier, Príncipes de Dinamarca

Kongelige:
Dronning Margrethe og Prins Henrik
Prins Nikolai
Prins Felix
Kronprins Frederik og kronprinsesse Mary
Prinsesse Benedikte og Prins Richard
Prinsesse Alexandra og Grev Jefferson-Friedrich Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
Prins Gustav og Carina Axelsson
Prinsesse Natalie
Eks-dronning Anne Marie og Eks-kong Konstantin
Kronprins Pavlos og kronprinsesse Marie-Chantal
Prinsesse Alexia og Carlos Morales
Prins Nikolaos
Prins Filippos
Prinsesse Theodora
Kronprinsesse Victoria af Sverige
Kronprins Haakon og kronprinsesse Mette Marit af Norge
Prinsesse Märtha Louise og Ari Behn
Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg
Grevinde Gunnila Bernadotte
Prinsesse Elisabeth
Grev Ingolf og grevinde Sussie
Grev Christian og grevinde Dorte

Summaries of two interviews in Billede Bladet #19, 2008.

First our Marie, then Joachim:
Jeg håber at gøre dronningen stolt – I hope to make the Queen proud.
Written by Henrik Salling.

Marie has spend the past few weeks saying goodbye to a number of her friends all over Europe and her friends have also thrown a party in her honour. Another hen night.
It hasn’t been that much of a goodbye as her friends are no more than two hours away by plane. And she certainlt expects to see her friends regularly.

Q: What else will you miss when you get married to Prince Joachim?
- “I will miss my freedom to do everyday things – like going to the supermarket or go to a fitness centre…..”.

Q: Have you considered how big a change it will be to come from Geneva to the very small town of Møgeltønder?
- “It is a small town, but it’s so beautiful there and I’m certain that I will grow to be very fond of the fact that there is peace and quite there…… Prince Joachim and I consider Møgeltønder our very own little town…..”.

Q: What’s the best part of moving to Denmark?
- “Of course that I will be living with the man I love. I look very much forward to getting married even though I haven’t tried it before”.

Q: What do you think of the Danes?
- “I already feel that I know quite a few Danes and the population a very sympathetic to me. I couldn’t have chosen a better country in which to settle.
Actually I haven’t chosen the place myself. When you fall in love it comes naturally…..”.

Q: Have you already by now considered which role you can have as Danish princess?
- “There are so many things I’d like to do. But right now.. it’s too early to say which tasks I’ll get…. I need to feel that I can be useful….”.

Q: How are the Danish lessons progressing?
- “I’ve laughed a lot with my Danish teachers and it’s a funny language to learn. It’s very different from the other languages that I speak. Most Danes believe it’s difficult to learn Danish, but so far I’m very confident. It feels like a very soft language and then the grammar is fortunately not that difficult. The pronunciation is unfortunately a bit difficult……..
To learn Danish will be one of my greatest tasks. The least you can do is to learn the language they speak in the country to which you move”.

Q: What do you look forward to the most on your wedding day?
- “My greatest wish is that Joachim and I – yes, that all will have a good day.
Apart from that I hope that the Queen and the Prince Consort will be proud of their new daughter-in-law (svigerdatter). And then I just hope I won’t rain”.

A caption informs us that our Marie’s Apple get along well with Joachim’s dog Winston.

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And now Joachim:

Vi skal have børn sammen – We are going to have children together.
Written by Trine Larsen.

This interview took place while Joachim was in Mosambique for CARE. (More about that in the Joachim thread).

- “Yes, of course, but I must say that after all that…. Let’s say stress there were prior to me going here, because we had to be away for so long and so close to the wedding, going on a work trip to Mosambique is almost relaxing”, smiles Prince Joachim, who on the trip around the country has had a very hectic schedule from six in the morning to late in the evening.

He has been able to more or less frequently to talk to Marie on his mobile. Depending on the local connection though.

Q: Will Marie in the future accompany you on such travels?
- “Yes, I can easily imagine that, but we haven’t really taken that into consideration yet”.

Q: Is Marie done of the right stuff that can handle such travels?
- “I absolutely think so. She is a woman with a very big heart for the poorest, so it would suit her fine to join. But at the same time they are travels that severely drain/strain the emotions and you can’t say or demand of someone who is here on a trip for the first time that they have to be (a word is missing. Composed?) and bite the lips (alternative: grit their teeth). At the same time I don’t believe that we necessarily have to share all tasks. On the other hand I wouldn’t suggest that she went on such a trip alone………..”.

Q: You have been divorced previously and many may believe that this is your last chance?
- “But there are indeed things I must do better or differently in the marriage this time, because I learn too. We all learn something every day and if we don’t bring it with us the next, then we really haven’t learned anything…….. I have indeed during the process felt the insecurity, because you have been burned once, but the love, trust and comfort from another person can remove that insecurity, and it has”.

Q: Many will probably find it a bit odd that you even have time to embark on such a long trip just a few weeks before your wedding?
- “Yes, but it’s a long planned trip…… There is an incredibly amount of planning ahead of such a trip and if I dropped that, then it would be a year before I could come down here….. the people and the many people in the real world, those this is all about and who from start haven’t got much to look forward to, I wouldn’t disappoint them. I just couldn’t do that. Then my wedding can be moved so that it fits in……”.

Q: When you come home from travels like this do you tell Nikolai and Felix about the trip and show on a map where you have been?
- “Exactly. I make my own little debriefing. Both in order to tell them about where I have been, so that they get an impression of what I’ve been doing and what I’ve experienced, but also a bit for my own sake. And I try in an educational way to tell them that we do live a privileged life in Denmark……”.

Q: Are they big enough to understand that there are other children who are not so fortunate as they are?
- “Yes, they are……. Gradually as they grow bigger they understand more and more. And they ask questions themselves and then you have to explain”.

Q: Do you ever consider taking them with you on such travels?
- “Yes, but not at the age they are at now……. But when they get older we will definitely do it…..”.

Q: How have you explained to the boys that about their mother having been married again and now that their father is getting married too?
- “They are two sensible boys with whom I can talk about practically anything….. because they ponder about this and that. But we talk about it and answer to the best of our ability the questions they ask”.

Q: You seem proud of your sons?
- “I certainly am. It is all in all a very big happiness for me that I have become a father and I’m very, very fond of the two boys. The two gold nuggets simply mean everything to me.
When the first was born and the next one was on the way, I asked myself whether I would ever be able to give the next child just as much love, that is, love number two just as much. And I wondered if that would mean that I had to take from the first child. But I found out that it has nothing to do with taking from one and giving to another. You simply double.
That’s also how I feel about my future wife. (*) I asked myself the question: Am I capable of returning? Yes, because it’s love in a different way and it’s irrelevant question, because the heart just grows bigger. It’s really not that difficult”.

Q: So there is room for new children in your future marriage?
- “Yes, absolutely. We both hope that we get the privilege to have children…. Not least because my future wife have a big heart for children… I’ve clearly seen that already”.

(*) Joachim is here (naturally, as the correct gentleman he is) using the formal word for “wife” = hustru. The informal and much more common word is: kone.

Hope you enjoy these samples. But alas, if you want the complete interviews you will have to get your hands on an issue of Billed Bladet #19.