Danish prince moves to U.S. for defence industry attache post

COPENHAGEN, Denmark –

Prince Joachim of Denmark is shifting to the United States to take up the submit of protection trade attache on the Danish embassy in Washington beginning in September, the Danish defence ministry mentioned on Friday.

“I am proud that I still get the opportunity to represent Denmark internationally in the area of security and defence” the 53-year-old prince mentioned in a press release. “Transatlantic cooperation is a high-priority area, and I am honored that they have found me qualified for the task.”

Prince Joachim is the youthful son of Queen Margrethe II, and is the sixth within the line of succession to the Danish throne. He has an intensive army background with the Danish Armed Forces and elsewhere ranging from 1987.

The prince has held an identical place on the Danish embassy in Paris since 2020 however introduced in November that he would go away the place this summer time.

Last 12 months, a cut up arose between him and the Danish royal home when Queen Margrethe determined that the prince’s 4 youngsters ought to lose their titles as prince and princess.

Denmark’s standard long-serving monarch later apologized for upsetting members of her household with the choice, however has refused to vary her thoughts.

In Denmark, which has a constitutional monarchy, the inheritor to the throne is Crown Prince Frederik, Joachim’s older brother.