Crowns with horns: European monarchies are rocked by treason scandals

“There is something poor in the Kingdom of Denmark.” The famous phrase from Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”, written 420 years ago, is more relevant than ever. The Scandinavian monarchy is going through a fetid moment.

Crown Prince Frederik, 55, who will ascend the throne on the 14th after the abdication of his mother, the popular Queen Margrethe II, is involved in an adultery scandal.

A Spanish magazine published photos of the handsome nobleman walking around Madrid with the Mexican actress and socialite Genoveva Casanova. This surname, in fact, is a joke: the same as that of the Italian writer considered the greatest seducer in the world, Giacomo Casanova. According to the publication, the two spent a night together in his apartment.

Frederik will complete his porcelain wedding with Australian Mary Donaldson, 51. They met in a bar during the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The commoner who became princess after marriage will be the new queen consort of the Danes.

With word of the betrayal spreading throughout the kingdom, he made a few public appearances without managing to conceal a certain distance from Frederik. Her body language betrayed the grief of the mother of four children of the next occupant of the throne.

In most monarchies, betrayal is common, almost acceptable. The appearance of marriages is worth more to maintaining the stability of the royal clan in the eyes of the public than to marital happiness. But some wives, like Princess Diana of the United Kingdom, refuse to passively accept the horn.

Even though she disapproved of her husband’s escape, Mary would not renounce her marriage or her title as Her Majesty. The lover who argues. The Australian is loved by most of her subjects, especially for her philanthropic work.

In unshakable good humor (she even laughed a lot at her husband’s funeral), Queen Margrethe II does not seem worried about the situation. After 83 years of life and 52 on the throne, she signals her intention to rest and dedicate herself more to illustrations. The first drawings for the Danish edition of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ are by her.

Leaving Scandinavia and coming down to the Iberian Peninsula, we have another oddity with monarchs. This, much spicier and with potentially drastic consequences.

Lawyer Jaime del Burgo claims to have been the lover of the Queen of Spain, Letizia, when she was already married to the then Prince Felipe – now king – and had two daughters, including Crown Princess Leonor.

On social media she said that the first love story lasted from 2002 to 2004, a period in which the journalist met Felipe, started dating and got married. Between 2004 and 2009 they were just close friends.

According to Burgos, a romantic relapse occurred between 2010 and 2011. In that period Letizia introduced him to her sister, Telma Ortiz. It was love at first sight. The alleged lover became the princess’s brother-in-law. But this marriage was short-lived.

In the lawyer’s soap opera version, Letizia planned to renounce her title and divorce the heir to the throne so that the two could marry and move to New York, where they would have a child via surrogacy. Jaime felt abandoned when she became queen consort in 2014.

Most Spanish media ignored the revelations. Not because it completely discredits them, but out of respect (or fear) for the royal family. The Bourbon clan opted for silence, even regarding the rumor that Philip VI was deciding on a divorce, an attitude considered radical among the nobles.

It is nothing new that the monarch’s relationship with Letizia has been shaken due to disagreements. The news presenter turned queen has a reputation as a genius. Maybe she’s just a fearless woman trying to survive in the lair of a monarchy.

Source: Terra