NAMES IN THE NEWS : Queen to Princes: Marry for Love
Queen Margrethe II, planning her 50th birthday party, said she hopes her sons marry for love, even if it means they get hitched to commoners.
Inviting the foreign press corps into her palace for the first time in nearly three decades on the throne, Margrethe did not rule out the possibility of her two sons, Crown Prince Frederik, 22, and Prince Joachim, 21, marrying commoners.
“What I hope for my boys is that whoever they marry . . . their wives will make them happy, both in their lives and their jobs,” the popular queen said Monday.
Margrethe, a descendant of Europe’s oldest reigning royal house, married the French diplomat Henri-Marie-Jean-Andre, Count de Laborde de Monpezat, now called Prince Consort Henrik, in 1967.
Margrethe met reporters at her Amalienborg Palace residence to discuss preparations for her April 16 birthday. She ascended the thrown at age 31 after the death of her father, King Frederik IX, in 1972.
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