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Frede's great holidays in 2025

It is no secret that King Frederik enjoys taking vacations – or so-called 'timeouts', as he himself called them in his book 'King's Words' from 2024. 

Here is a list of King Frederik's private trips in 2025:

January 10 – 11: King Frederik abroad – Crown Prince Christian was regent.

January 17 – January 19: King Frederik abroad again – Queen Margrethe was regent.

February 7 – February 16: Frederik on vacation again. Crown Prince Christian was regent.

February 21 – February 23: King Frederik on vacation again. The Crown Prince was regent. 

May 29 – June 1: King Frederik on vacation again. Queen Margrethe was regent. 

July 6 – July 20: King Frederik is on vacation again. Crown Prince Christian and Queen Margrethe installed as Regent and Regents of the Kingdom

September 27 – September 30: King Frederik on vacation again. The Crown Prince was regent.

October 2 – October 5: King Frederik again on vacation. Crown Prince Christian installed as regent 

A regent is a deputy of the regent who is responsible for the conduct of the government in the event of the monarch's incapacity, illness or absence from the kingdom. 

According to an Act on the Conduct of the Government in the Event of the King's Absence from 1871, there must always be a regent, heir to the throne or regent. A regent is only appointed if the regent is out of the country for more than 24 hours. Frede's great holidays in 2025

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14 comments

  1. A lot of these were 3 days. Not exactly big deals, especially if out of the country was somewhere in Europe where he could get home in an emergency in a couple of hours

  2. Does Christian take precedence over Mary to be regent? or was she abroad at the same time as well?

  4. Five of them are literally just weekends:

    Two weekends in January,

    A weekend in February

    The May one coincided with 2 days of national holidays on thursday and friday and he was back on sunday

    Prolonged weekend in September from saturday to tuesday

    All in all something like 22-23 working days excluding holidays and weekends, which would be less than a standard danish worker gets. Usually a danish worker would get 5 weeks of paid holidays just over the summer, which is 25 days, so this article is just some BS

  5. I’d be curious if those total days were more than all the days the Wales were on vacation

  6. These dudes in positions of power are really in their “I’ll do whatever the fuck I want” era aren’t they

  7. Here come the excuses lol a vacation is a vacation whether it’s a weekend or three weeks. He’s still out the country and cannot do his duties as King. Add to this the fact that he doesn’t even have a busy schedule to begin with. 

    Margrethe abdicated because she was having health issues, and now Frederik is leaving the country to do whatever, wherever and letting his mother do the duties she assumed he would assume upon becoming King! Imagine “retiring” so you can focus on your health and hobbies but your son keeps getting you to “rule” in his stead because he has to leave the country during the weekends. 

    Frederik has always been the laziest Crown Prince and now he’s the same as King. Philippe, Willem-Alexander, and Felipe all run circles around him. He doesn’t have the gravitas of his peers, either. 

    Mary is the true driving force in their time as Crown Prince couple and now she’s the same as Queen. Her schedule isn’t as busy as Anne’s, but Mary works more than Frederik. 
     

  8. Other than February, none of this seems that excessive. Then again, it’s not my taxes.

  9. Well, this is completely normal. As a Dane you’ll have at least 25 days of paid holidays. Why shouldn’t he? Most of these were probably weekends anyways.

  10. 6 of these are 3 days or less. If you or I only took 18 days worth of weekends in 10 months we’d be exhausted. He’s averaging less than 5 days off a month. Most humans in civilized societies get around 8 days off a month, not counting bank holidays or annual leave. Do you genuinely believe a royal should work 7 days a week and never take a break?

  11. I’m going to put three caveats here from a European perspective:

    * Most people have 25 days as a basic right anyway, so it’s not that horrific.
    * Going abroad in Denmark could be as little as driving over to Sweden over the bridge for a hike or down to Germany for a hunt. It’s like the distance of going to a different US state, or even less.
    * Even your average European can go abroad more than once a year. Flights can be well under 100 euros – obviously Fredde isn’t travelling Ryanair, Whizzair or Easyjet, but the mere fact of going abroad multiple times a year isn’t that weird.

  12. Most of these are 2-3 day weekends, so I don’t know if many are up in arms over Frederik having leisure time. If it comes back to bite him, my money is on the fact that the King of Denmark cannot find ways to spend leisure time in his own country.

  13. He was in St Tropez the last two times. He participated in a sailing event. Maybe Mary also has the weekends off, but we don’t know about it because they don’t communicate it with us.

  14. I know it’s not a big deal in terms of time and money to go from one European country to the next, but as King he should be promoting Danish tourism. Even the Wales’ can manage holidays in Cornwall, different parts of Scotland and Wales, etc. It’s like he hasn’t adjusted the location of his leisure to suit the top job. You’d think he’d have had enough time to realize he’d need to – it’s not as though he ascended unexpectedly as a young man. If he was taking three days “off” domestically, no one would know because there would be no regent. There are a bunch of little islands around Denmark – why can’t he surreptitiously take the Royal yacht to one of those to get up to whatever he has to get up to?

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