Denmark's Prince Consort Henrik, the French-born husband of Queen Margrethe II, does not want to be buried with his wife when the time comes, breaking with tradition.
The 83-year-old prince said he was seen as a supporting role and not on equal footing with his wife in life and did not want to be so in death. That decision has been accepted by the queen.
Disappointed that his royal title of prince consort was never changed to king when his wife became queen in 1972, Henrik has often spoken out about his discontent. The couple will break with royal tradition by not being buried together in the Roskilde Cathedral. But the prince consort wants to be buried in Denmark. He loves Denmark and worked for Denmark for more than 50 years. So the prince wants to be buried in Denmark. When Henrik met Margrethe, then the crown-princess, he was a French diplomat(外交官) in London. By the time Margrethe got the throne, the couple had two young children: Prince Frederik, born in 1968, and Joakim, born in 1969. Henrik retired from public service in January 2016.
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