Queen Margrethe II announced last week that the four children of her son Prince Joachim will lose their royal titles. While the palace said the reasoning was to allow her grandchildren the chance to “shape their own existence,” there’s a wider trend among European monarchies to make the royal households smaller, as Danish historian Lars Hovbakke Sørensen told The World’s Carolyn Beeler.
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