{"id":10719,"date":"2026-02-12T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:04:16","slug":"princess-marie-of-denmarks-deliberate-timing-for-transatlantic-move-with-two-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10719\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Marie of Denmark’s deliberate timing for transatlantic move with two kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Marie<\/a> of Denmark has been living in the United States with her husband, Prince Joachim<\/a>, and their two children, Count Henrik, 16, and Countess Athena, 14, of Monpezat, but the family has shared that they are set to move back to their homeland.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Danish magazine BILLED-BLADET earlier this week, Princess Marie, 50, who was born in Paris, confirmed the family’s upheaval, revealing: “I’m looking forward to getting back to my work and my patronages. And getting back to Denmark. And what happens after that, time will tell. We are really looking forward to it. It has been really exciting to be out of the country and be able to support Denmark abroad.”<\/p>\n

\"Prince\u00a9 Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty ImaPrince Joachim and Princess Marie are set to move back to Denmark
\nPrincess Marie’s reasoning behind move to Denmark<\/p>\n

The princess also revealed that the family of four would be making the move in August 2027 \u2013 and for a particular reason. She explained that she wants Count Henrik to finish high school before leaving the States, and hopes Countess Athena will complete her schooling back in Denmark.<\/p>\n

\"Prince\u00a9 GettyThe royal are moving back in 2027 to fit in with their children’s education<\/p>\n

The Danish royals’ tenure in the US is not the first time they have lived away from Denmark, where Prince Joachim is fifth in line to the throne. They lived in Marie’s native Paris from 2020 to 2023 while the prince served as the Military Attach\u00e9 at the Royal Danish Embassy in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Princess Marie and Prince Joachim’s life abroad<\/p>\n

He has held a similar position during his time in the United States, working as the defence industry attach\u00e9 at the Danish Embassy in Washington. In 2025, it was announced that they were extending their time in America with a public statement.<\/p>\n

\"Princess\u00a9 GettyThe coupled cited homesickness as their reason behind the move back to Denmark<\/p>\n

It read: “The Ministry of Defense announced this morning that HRH Prince Joachim will be extended in his position as Defense Industry Attach\u00e9 and Deputy Defense Attach\u00e9 in Washington DC until the end of August 2027. HRH Prince Joachim, together with HRH Princess Marie and their two children, HRH Count Henrik and HRH Countess Athena, will therefore remain living in Washington DC, where the children also attend their daily schooling.”<\/p>\n

Extending their US tenure<\/p>\n

The couple chose to extend their time in the US<\/a> despite having admitted to having a desire to return to Denmark sooner. Speaking to TV2 in June 2025, Joachim said: “We have a desire to come home. But we also do not rule out the possibility of staying abroad. Now we have to see. For now, it is on our radar. When the post here stops, we will return home.”<\/p>\n

\"Prince\u00a9 GettyCountess Athena and Count (pictured centre) will be making the move back to Denmark with their parents<\/p>\n

The prince continued by adding that the reason for their desire to return to his native Denmark came down to homesickness. “Overall, we can all feel it, and we can also feel it in the children, that it is at home in Denmark that we have our largest social base,” he admitted. “We can’t travel back and forth, after all, there is a six-hour time difference and an entire ocean in between. We take our time when we are home and enjoy it to the fullest. Perhaps that is the band-aid for being far away from home.”<\/p>\n

Inside their Washington home<\/p>\n

In January 2025, the Danish royal family shared an insight into the\u00a0interior of the family’s Washington home<\/a> on the official royal Instagram. Countess Athena featured in a photograph to mark her 13th birthday, where she stood in what appeared to be a living room with a white shelving unit built into the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the shelves were an array of books, as well as a picture of Princess Marie holding one of her children as a baby. For 2026, Athena posed in an airy white room against an ice-hued sofa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Marie of Denmark has been living in the United States with her husband, Prince Joachim, and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,27,26,2113,6403,1520,2114,8495],"class_list":{"0":"post-10719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danish-royals","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-european-royals","12":"tag-homes","13":"tag-prince-joachim","14":"tag-princess-marie","15":"tag-royal-homes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}