Prince Joachim and Princess Marie are extending their keep in Washington D.C, the Danish royal palace showed on Friday. In a remark, it mentioned: “The Ministry of Protection introduced this morning that HRH Prince Joachim will probably be prolonged in his place as Protection Business Attaché and Deputy Protection Attaché in Washington DC till the tip of August 2027. HRH Prince Joachim, at the side of HRH Princess Marie and their two youngsters, HRH Depend Henrik and HRH Countess Athena, will subsequently stay residing in Washington DC, the place the kids additionally attend their day-to-day training.”
It added: “As protection trade attaché and deputy protection attaché, Prince Joachim studies to the Ministry of Protection and in his day-to-day paintings to the ambassador in Washington, DC.”
The Danish royal couple and their two youngsters, Depend Henrik, 16, and Countess Athena, 13, moved to america when Joachim took up the placement in September 2023. Previous to that, the circle of relatives lived in Paris, having moved to France in 2019.
Prince Joachim’s ideas on being clear of Denmark
The replace comes only a few months after Prince Joachim spoke about how two giant relocations up to now six years had affected his circle of relatives. Chatting with TV2 in June, the prince mentioned: “We have now a need to come back house. However we additionally don’t rule out the opportunity of staying in another country. Now we need to see. For now, it’s on our radar, when the put up right here stops, we will be able to go back house.”
The royal, 56, who’s the more youthful brother of King Frederik, additionally admitted feeling homesick, including: “Total, we will be able to all really feel it, and we will be able to additionally really feel it within the youngsters, that it’s at house in Denmark that we have got our greatest social base. We will be able to’t trip backward and forward, in spite of everything, there’s a six-hour time distinction and a complete ocean in between. We take our time once we are house and revel in it to the fullest. Possibly that’s the band-aid for being a long way clear of house.”
Princess Marie returned to Denmark in August, together with her teenage youngsters, to hold out engagements with a few of her patronages, together with Copenhagen Cooking Pageant.
© Getty PhotographsJoachim additionally has two older sons from his earlier marriage to Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg – Depend Nikolai, 26, and Depend Felix, 23. Joachim’s 4 youngsters had been stripped in their royal titles through their grandmother, Queen Margrethe, in 2022. The verdict stunned the royals and the country, however the former monarch mentioned she sought after them to “form their very own lives, with out being restricted through the particular concerns and tasks {that a} formal association to the Royal Area of Denmark includes”. Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena don’t seem to be anticipated to hold out royal tasks in long run.
Frederik, 57, and his spouse, Mary, 53, was king and queen of Denmark in January 2024. Their eldest kid, Crown Prince Christian, 19, is inheritor to the throne. The couple also are folks to Princess Isabella, 18, and 14-year-old twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine.
