Prince Joachim of Denmark is past the friction that followed his mother Queen Margrethe ’s decision to strip his four children of their royal titles. Prince Joachim and his wife, Princess Marie, opened up about the subject in a new interview with The Washington Post conducted in March at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C.

The Danish prince and princess have taken a swipe at the Queen over her decision to strip their children of their royal titles. Princess Marie of Denmark said that she and her husband Prince Joachim were “not happy about the way” the decision was made.

Further driving home the point that the British royal family isn’t the only monarchy that spells Drama with a capital D, let’s travel to Denmark, where in September 2022 Queen Margrethe unexpectedly stripped the royal titles of her younger son Prince Joachim’s children,

A year and a half ago, in September 2022, Queen Margrethe announced she would remove prince and princess titles from four of her grandchildren—the children of her second son, Prince Joachim—as of January 1,