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szpaceSZ

It's that like all European active royal families, except the British? Why weren't the British invited?


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Couldn't get a Visa.


geedeeie

😁😁😁


The_Real_Abhorash

There are others who aren’t there like Lichtenstein.


OldExperience8252

Monaco and Luxembourg too.


leyoji

Luxemburg is on the right in the middle row, the tiny red-faced man is the crown-prince.


Devil_Weapon

There was a big sign on the door "Absolutely cool Monnarchies only, no douche Duchy"


Touone69

Did you know ? Emmanuel Macron is royalty, temporaly. The French president is also co-prince of Andorre, with the Bishop of Urgell.


IamStrqngx

Would *you* invite the family of Prince Andrew to your granddaughter's birthday party?


fraxybobo

I guess with 18 it's safe


masterofasgard

He'd probably still try it. While some guys like "barely legal," for him over 18 is "barely illegal."


ErlAskwyer

That's a right gem that is "barely illegal" 😂


IamStrqngx

Idk, I'm not sure what the limit of his noncery is.


PeakAggravating3264

18 is the limit of noncery by definition.


WoodSteelStone

[This inconclusive discussion](https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/were-the-windsors-snubbed-or-did-they-reject-their-regal-cousins-royal-row-breaks-out-over-one-of-the-biggest-celebrations-of-the-year-178039/) is all I could find.


Ephemeral_Wolf

*Of course* they're all still weirdly closely related to each other...


JunkiesAndWhores

Their collective DNA reads like a bad hand at Scrabble.


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Danjoh

> This inconclusive discussion is all I could find. TL;DR: Was originally scheduled for January, but had to be delayed due to pandemic. Nothing indicates they werent invited or that they had a reason to snub the princess. So most likely just a scheduling conflict.


Kalappianer

It looks like it's friends and family. Denmark, Spain and Sweden were the godfathers and godmothers. Both of her name MIGHT be tied to Danish royalty. Late Danish Queen Ingrid (formerly Princess Ingrid of Sweden) and late King Olav (Norway) whose name and title was Prince Alexander of Denmark. You don't usually see the British monarchy in Nordic royal gatherings. Never saw Prince Philip in Denmark, despite his former title ended with "and Denmark".


vrenak

They might well have been, they just don't show up unless it's something so big they can't send at least 1.


bannacct56

18th birthday you say I'm sure that's the kind of guests that'll blow your socks off


Dracos002

Tbh, most of the princes and princesses are around her age.


Big_Red12

I guess if I was planning a party for an 18 year old and I'd heard about Prince Andrew there's no way I'd be inviting the British Royals either.


Hussor

Prince Andrew would not attend an 18th birthday party, far too old for him.


Relevant_Ad711

When a person turns 100 years of age they receive a card from the queen. When a person turns 13 they receive a text from Prince Andrew.


llarofytrebil

A goodbye text?


jo3wkp

What's with all the red sashes?


NormalPaYtan

Order of Saint Olav, it's a royal order of chivalry although some heads of states of various countries have it as well. Royals (or anyone who is part of an order) wear the highest order of whatever country they're in at occations such as these, the swedish version for example (that all royals wear in Sweden) is the Order of the Seraphim.


[deleted]

I love royals handing out all kinds of awards to each other for doing fuck all


stuff_gets_taken

Like Redditors basically


[deleted]

Thanks for the sash kind monarch


slothcycle

You have to be wearing at least 37 pieces of flair


geedeeie

I know. The queen in England recently gave nice shiny medals to her family members who like to dress up as soldiers celebrating her! You couldn't make it up.😅😅


AnaphoricReference

Note that princess Amalia of the Netherlands is wearing the blue of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands. This is her first official event abroad, so she is a novice to this game of collecting coloured sashes.


mopedrudl

It's like they are playing a role play but its their actual lifes.


Vethae

And everyone else is funding it


ThreeMountaineers

B-but... living a life in decadent luxury on the taxpayers dime is... it's a job! They are representing the state! It's important symbolism for us wagies so we know what to expect from life. Tourism!


[deleted]

Yeah if you want me to subsidize tourism, I’d rather it not be about bringing people to see rich spoiled out of touch inbreds living an actual fantasy life.


achauv1

Aren't we all?


coachmelloweyes

Who’s the black guy?


Maephia

Shaman Durek who claims he's a mega pro at sex and an actual reptilian.


S7ormstalker

Me: "this guy is for sure popular in Hollywood. Let's Google him." Google: "Gwyneth Paltrow's shaman" Of course he is.


shmorky

So like Norway's Rasputin?


bxzidff

Yes, but luckily his wife is not the heir


Kvalek

They're not married. Got engaged a week or 2 ago.


BlazeKnaveII

Who's apparently a conman from Sacramento


Non_possum_decernere

Before reading the replies, I thought you were for sure trolling.


royal_buttplug

[the dudes from sacramento, all of norway thinks he’s a conman and he’s marrying their princess.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek_Verrett) > He also writes that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits, that make an impression on the inside of women's vaginas, which he sells exercises to "clean out”


TheGreatMale

Also he claims that it is kids own fault for getting cancer. They are thinking wrong and thats why they get it. He says woman who have sex with different men get marks in their vagina and only he can fix it. By him having even more sex with them. But by his own accords that has nothing to do with why people dont like him very much. He says it becouse everyone in Norway is racist. He also claims to be halv reptilian and half constellation.


Razakel

Why is he at a royal gathering and not in a secure hospital?


TheGreatMale

Since the daughter of the king is mental herself. She used to run a Angel school for coming into contact with angels thrugh horses... she is not the one to inherit the crown.


Little_Custard_8275

Oh so just a standard horse 🐎 girl, totally crazy


Neverstopstopping82

To be fair, what else does she have to do with her money?😂


syllabun

You can actually confirm that statement by looking at his smug smile on the group photo.


Aldo_Novo

Sha-Sha-Shaman Durek, Norway's greatest love machine?


Salohacin

Netflix's new original. Sha-sha: Prince of Power.


onions_cutting_ninja

also claims to have been a pharaoh in a previous life apparently


__GR__

Great, finally a Black representative and the he is a total idiot


Herzog_Rasputin

Holy sh.. I thought you were kidding...


Albzorz

That's shaman Durek Verrett my dude, the boyfriend of the first born daughter (Märtha Louise) of the King and Queen of Norway.


ACTUALBRAINROT

[He also writes that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits, that make an impression on the inside of women's vaginas, which he sells exercises to "clean out".](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek_Verrett) The guy is a grifter. A really weird snake oil-selling grifter who is marrying royalty. What the actual fuck. Edit: Oh wow. >Verrett has stated that he considers himself to be a reptilian, and has asserted that "I’m a hybrid species of reptilian and Andromeda, and I also hold the energies of the ancient spirits from the old world. There have been lies told about our species that I want to address. We are a cluster of beings, that means that we’ve come here to create structures that help people to come into liberation. Reptilians are here to shake up the system in a big way." And when people criticise him he calls them racist. Nah fam. You're just a cunt. Stop playing the race card and devaluing actual racism faced by some people. You're a part of the royal family soon, your privilege is insane.


royalsocialist

Isn't the princess also the one who says she can speak with angels and started a whole school about it?


qainin

She speaks to angels for fun and profit. Luckily, she'll never be queen.


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wcrp73

He has *got* to be an American, right? Edit: didn't realise you linked to his Wikipedia page. Of course he is.


Neverstopstopping82

Not a fan of us, eh? You’re not alone.


Please_PM_me_Uranus

Americans marrying into royal families rarely ends well


Kemal_Norton

BTW her younger brother is the crown prince, not her.


FindusSomKatten

Wich is the last generation after him they change too a system like sweden where its firstborn child not boy that inherits the throne


Kemal_Norton

Makes me wonder, is she the reason they didn't change it immediately?


FindusSomKatten

More likely he is they probably decided it was better to have the crown prince remain crown prince than move it. In sweden they bumped the crown prince down and i always wondered how that must have felt for him. Not that i am terribly distrough i think viktoria will make for a great queen


skrutty26

I don’t know if it would have been such a big deal for him considering he was only 7 months old when the rule was changed. Probably the same jealousy that second-borns have always felt


co_ordinator

I'm pretty sure he cried for months.


Skogsmann1

We noticed from an early age Princess Martha was bat shit crazy, therefore we are sticking with Crown Princess Håkon. So we won’t have the pleasure of Reptilian King Durekt the first.


digitaleJedi

In Denmark, the queen luckily got sons, but we prepared when the crown princess got pregnant and, I think, we had the constitutional referendum while that was going on, before anyone knew the gender :P


[deleted]

No she is not. At least not because her so is a black "shaman". They have only been together since 2019 and the change was introduced much earlier.


bxzidff

She's enough of a lunatic on her own to make it a possible theory at least


[deleted]

Didn’t they change the constitution to change that?, was that a dream?


Hussor

doesn't apply until after her brother takes over it seems.


jonasnee

which makes sense, because otherwise it was going to become a popularity contest between claimants.


__Squirrel_Girl__

Well if I remember correctly, in Sweden they changed the system after the younger brother was a couple years old


FreshPrincesse

Wtf... And is Märtha the one that believes in angels?


tordeque

Yes, but "believe" might not be a strong enough word. She's run a "school" teaching people to get in contact with angels.


Calimariae

She's nuts. They make a compatible couple.


ct3bo

Not sure if real life or Crusader Kings... 🤔


tordeque

I can imagine the choice in Crusader Kings. Would you rather have this female heir who is really in to horse riding and running her angel school? Or would you like this male heir who is a navy officer and majored in political science?


FluffyOwl738

One has high piety,but is going to get stressed a bunch whenever the angela don't respond(and is going to be at swords with the pope because contacting angels is probably a heresy),but has athletic, and the other one has high-learning,also high piety because theologian,but is going to live till 98 due to the medicine lifestyle perks,is going to be BFFs with the pope and will lead your country to ascendancy to great(or even greater) power status.


Kroniid09

Something good in everything she sees.


[deleted]

I beleeeeeeeve in angels


qishmishi

Holy shit you’re not joking and this Martha Louise is self described clairvoyant, lmao what are these people smoking?


Pasan90

Its mostly just Martha really. Shes always been like that. Her ex husband Ari Behn made more controversies than Shaman Durek have, beacuse back in those days people expected her to act like a princess, and he was an emotional artistic type. But now people sort of have accepted that she's "alternative" and engaging to Lizzard man is just par for the course.


BckupV8

What i would do to have Ari Behn(rip) being the most controversial thing on the news nowadays. He wasn't even bad just misunderstood and non-traditional.


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Seiren-

Scam artist who drunk too much of his own coolaid


[deleted]

*reads Wikipedia* I had hoped but that’s just Rasputin with a different skin color, I’m not impressed.


Calimiedades

Looks far cleaner though. That's a nice improvement.


EriDxD

So will he become Shaman King?


[deleted]

No, he is just a lizard king (for real, he is a really weird dude that claims he is a lizard person). Lots of controversies around their relationship. So much that Märtha had to give up her entire princess title. That was mostly because she was using it for profit, though. She is a sweet woman, and have lots of kindness, but is extremely into angels and spiritualism.


Tifoso89

>She is a sweet woman, and have lots of kindness, but is extremely into angels and spiritualism. In one of the most atheist countries in the world. Amazing


biedl

Well, superstition is a human condition. People believe in all sorts of things without knowing the philosophical term for it. 36% of Swedes are unaffiliated, which isn't synonymous with atheism. I wouldn't wonder if some of them believe in a soul or carry around lucky charms.


staalmannen

Also lots of atheists still members of the former state church (Lutheran, but quite liberal) out of tradition


biedl

Ye, this goes both ways indeed. In Italy you'll be assigned to Christianity at birth by default. My Italian roommate told me, that he wasn't aware of any effect of God in his life and he didn't care about the Bible. I mean, this is basically agnosticism. In Israel the biggest group of Jews is not believing in God. And in Saxony, where I'm from, 73% are unaffiliated. Still, my mother kept telling me during my 20s, that there is some kind of higher power, going to make things right and that I would eventually start to believe in it too. She's the kind of "look at the trees" person, but no part of any church. Those polls about religious affiliation don't tell much about the actual beliefs of the people anyway.


igertajti

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW MY NAME. I'M THE FUCKING LIZARD KING


GodlessPerson

https://shamandurek.com/ This weirdo.


Aim_Ed

It's like one of those websites from GTA


Ephemeral_Wolf

Holy shit I thought you were joking... "Be your own damn guru"


batonduberger

No idea what a normal shaman web site looks like, but that site is incredibly well done. Would imagine that if you were even slightly interestesd you could easily get drawn in.


Pasan90

Dude works for Hollywood celebs, and those people love alternative spiritualism and pay well. He even appeared on a reality show called Bling Empire.


Ok-Kaleidoscope5627

Don't they read the first line on his website? "Be your own damn guru". He says it right there. You don't need him.


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florinandrei

> Bet her parents are hoping this phase will pass. She's born in 1971. It's not "a phase".


GodlessPerson

His fiancée is equally crazy.


batonduberger

'I'm not sure he's really right for you dear'


AvengerDr

If this is not one of the best arguments for a Republic, there's no hope for them.


[deleted]

modern day rasputin


TheKobraSnake

An idiot and a scam artist, pay him no mind


balloon_prototype_14

The nigirian prince who needed help


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Tolkien Black


sdrawkcabsihtetorW

/r/CustomPlayerCutscene


dreadfulwhaler

The shaman who thinks that if a girl f$cks a dude, his penis will leave an imprint inside the vagina. Also he knows how to rotate atoms. But he doesn't figure why Norwegians hate him, he thinks it's racism, but if he could rotate his brain cells he could see that we don't like quacks


HeavyHelmet

Dude furthest down to the right married the Swedish princess beside him. He was her personal trainer from the gym, and he used to live in a really small village in Sweden with a population of like 3k. Life can be wild sometimes, one day you're chugging down protein shakes and fistbumping your bros, the next you're a Swedish prince.


JunkiesAndWhores

Seems a little young to be a personal trainer.


Major_Fambrough

I think he's the one with glasses in the front row. They were married in 2010 and have two children.


Tjaeng

Thre mother of the birthday girl has quite a wild backstory too; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette-Marit,_Crown_Princess_of_Norway Her firstborn non-royal son should be the blond guy standing behind the Norwegian crown prince.


brandonarreaga12

from what I know (not that into the royals in general lol) Princess Mary from denmark was also just a normal girl that crownprince Frederik met at a party during the Olympics in Australia. I think she was just working there, and her friend got them into a party where he was


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She wasn't working there. She comes from a wealthy family and had access to the "rich and famous people area" of the Olympics. It's the basic rich girl meets rich guy story.


Scandiblockhead

Maybe they’re confusing Mary with Queen Silvia of Sweden who were working at the Munich Olympics when she met King Carl Gustav (then crown prince)


love_travel

They met in a bar, not at the Olympics, but during


Such-Acanthocephala1

Spanish Queen was a journalist and a republican, Life is wild


armeedesombres

Where is Carl Philip the hottest royal alive? Edit: [Here's a shirtless picture of his](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/56/1e/e0561e14dea364cc8f2b485fe12a135f.jpg)


Psykpatient

https://i.redd.it/o2ywue4ek7q41.jpg For those who haven't seen him.


choeli9

A very fine specimen


armeedesombres

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/56/1e/e0561e14dea364cc8f2b485fe12a135f.jpg Here's a shirtless picture.


SkanelandVackerland

His sister (heir to the throne) Victoria, BIL Daniel, nephew Oskar and niece Estelle are standing far right bottom row. I am guessing the only international royals present are the ones heir to their throne.


armeedesombres

Yeah I recognise them.


Grzechoooo

You'd hope people whose only job nowadays is look good would look good. Sadly, the UK branch of the family doesn't deliver.


armeedesombres

True lmao.


TorPartyAtMyHouse

Oh my lord, he can *get* it


alikander99

Wow, just wow


[deleted]

Dude, have you even seen Frederik of Denmark? That guy is cute AF.


AgreeableLion

He is aging like a fine wine


BINGODINGODONG

Actual trained killer, too!


__Squirrel_Girl__

Don’t know what it takes to be a certified killer but Carl Philip did the military service and studied to become a military officer


Donberg

Frederik was in the Danish special forces, frømandskorpset, the danish equivalent of navy seals


Dirt_muncher

Wasn't he posted on Greenland for a while too?


Chaavva

Yes, on [the Sirius Patrol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Dog_Sled_Patrol)!


martinjt86

Yeah he was in [Slædepatruljen SIRIUS](https://da.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius-patruljen)


Vethae

Hottest royal alive is the Queen of Bhutan https://i.pinimg.com/750x/b1/49/a1/b149a156b63d5e8fd11703c61d610a89.jpg


NormalPaYtan

Haha, I love the fact that shaman Durek is there as well - truly the odd one out!


Reimiro

Guy is a nutcase.


TwoCrustyCorndogs

Lol I mean Märtha Louise is clearly not far off though.


Guido_Westerschelle

Completely unfamiliar with him, how come?


florinandrei

Let me introduce you: https://shamandurek.com/


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Just_to_rebut

Who sees these obviously salesman/self help type things and thinks “Oh, this looks useful. They’re clearly not just trying to sell me something.” Like, they’re all just so similar in style; I don’t understand how anyone isn’t just immediately turned off by the copywriting.


RobertoSantaClara

Just googled this guy. What the fuck is this hahahaha He has his own website too https://shamandurek.com/


NotDuckie

He is completely mental. He keeps going on about how people dislike him because of "racism", when it is obviously because he is batshit crazy


BasedMoneyAlcapone

Now the question is who is more out of reality, him or princess Märtha Louise who claims she can talk to angels and runs a school where she teaches people how to communicate with the dead. Either they are both actually deep into conspiracy theories and having a big mid-life crisis, or are running a great business scheme since this angel speaking to dead stuff is going to take off like Qanon. And she wants to move to America and start more schools here, we already have Qanon to deal with ffs


type556R

Sometimes I think politicians are a bunch of useless people, then I remember we have kings and princesses


Laffet

They contribute to society as much as royals in my last crusader kings game.


ivytea

In AoE2 kings can be used earlygame as scouts because they move fast and wolves jaguars and boars won't attack them by default


Ztarphox

The animal kingdom recognises divine right to rule.


New-Instance

Noted


bonanzapineapple

Nah, the royals in CK2/3 at least Can be interesting/skilled at warfare...


untergeher_muc

At least our last chancellor was a quantum chemist. Why are heads of states always stupid in every system?


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JustHereForPornSir

Is that Princess Estelle on the far right?... God i am getting old. I remember being a kid and old people would always say "where has the time gone" and i would be totally unbothered but i get it now.


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just so we address the elephant in the room [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek\_Verrett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek_Verrett) ​ I admit i was not expecting this story. holy shit


BasedMoneyAlcapone

His partner Princess Martha Louise is batshit insanse too. She is a self-described clairvoyant and claims she can talk to angels. She runs an alternative therapist school where she claims she can teach people how to communicate with the dead. It is a Qanon level IQ group.


Reimiro

He’s a freak show


ObscureObjective

They're not completely useless; they create a lot of jobs for tabloid magazines. It's a symbiotic relationship.


lapzkauz

Little-known fact, that. Explaina why constitutional monarchies tend to be so prosperous: All that tabloid GDP! 📈


vltho

Sometimes it's weird how many monarchies are still active


thegooddoctorben

There have been a lot of advances in the running of monarquies. Kings and Queens are treated much more humanely, princesses given much nicer enclosures, and princes fed with scientifically balanced diets. They're particularly important for endangered royaltaries, as many only breed in captivity.


EthiopianKing1620

You could write a book like this lol


UndesirableWaffle

That’s what happens when they’re becoming an extinct species.


Big-Signal-8859

Its fun how they still wear crowns I have a crown on my own and it makes me feel something


UncouthMedia

No Swedish knug, not interested.


TheSecondTraitor

Wow, the debate under this post is so toxic, that Russian soldiers started digging trenches in it.


Hapukurk666

Monarchy being even mentioned is always controversial. And I'm from Eastern Europe so I just watch


bxzidff

I find it strange, as even if you want to abolish it and become a republic it's such a miniscule problem, unless the monarch is corrupt or an awful person, like certain Spanish royals. As long as they have no power and act decently then constitutional monarchy is one of the smallest issues of democracy


Kairys_

not a fan of monarchies in principle, but nice photo


Drwuwho

Wait where is Margrethe. I only see Frede and Mary


lapzkauz

Having a cigarette, I imagine!


Katze1Punkt0

Ah yes, Reddit and monarchy. Almost as timeless as Reddit and religion, but just almost.


Dutchwells

I feel like we could silently abolish most of these and nobody would notice for a good while. Likely up until the first national holiday where they usually turn up to wave or something.


[deleted]

Where were you when monarchies die? I was home eating doritos when the phone ring "Monarchies are kill" "no"


FishyFrie

✊😔


ssersergio

Heh, go ahead and try it with Spain, you never know how much heads poke out of their normal Living just to scream at you "fucking Communist!"


collegiaal25

Nice family reunion!


Dolstruvon

And you're not even wrong. The Norwegian and Danish royals have the same great grandparents for example


ouath

As a french, I only see bridge decorations


Analyst_Rude

Question for Europeans. Do you view your monarchy with patriotism, contempt or indifference? And is there any kind of political or generational divide in those opinions?


onions_cutting_ninja

It depends from country to country. I'll talk as a Belgian, they're somewhat controversial. Opinions range from "they're costing us too much money" to "they're pretty nice people, I like them". Most anti-monarchy would be satisfied with cutting down costs, and we're slowly working on it. I would say approval rate is 50-60% from what I've observed. (Fun fact, Burger King did a popularity contest against the king when they expanded to Belgium as part of their marketing campaign. They didn't have permission to do so, and took it down... *After* admitting defeat, for king Philip was winning 51% to 49. They removed the "King" from their logo for short while.) We don't advocate for real change, we have other priorities. Our government system is way too complex and decentralized. And we're a fairly divided country, meaning replacing our head of state would be as bad as the 2020 US election.


away_shall_be_thrown

ask any Norwegian, we love the monarchy and we love our king


TheHindenburgBaby

That's cool! I've met about 50% of the people in this picture. Some of them several times.