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Prince Joachim<\/a> of Denmark is weighing in on his family’s future plans regarding whether they’ll continue living in the U.S.\n<\/p>\n The younger son of Queen Margrethe<\/a> opened up in a rare interview shared on June 6, where he directly addressed what the future might look like for his family. Prince Joachim, 55, and his wife\u00a0Princess Marie<\/a> moved from France to Washington, D.C. with their two children in the summer of 2023 as he took on a three-year job with the Danish Embassy under the Ministry of Defense.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n It marked a fresh start after Queen Margrethe shockingly stripped his four kids<\/a> of the prince and princess titles for “future proofing<\/a>” of the monarchy at the start of the year, a move that made waves and Joachim criticized.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n In conversation with TV2, Prince 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.”\n<\/p>\n Prince Joachim and Princess Marie at the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver, Canada on Feb. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n Aaron Chown\/PA Images via Getty<\/p>\n A previous statement<\/a> from the Ministry of Defense about Joachim’s job in America said that he would serve as an attach\u00e9 covering the USA and Canada in a three-year position with the possibility of extension, meaning that the initial stint is expected to end in 2026.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n King Frederik<\/a>‘s younger brother also gave a personal update on how his family is doing lately. Prince Joachim is a father of four, and shares sons Nikolai, 25, and Felix, 22, with his first wife Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. Following their split, he remarried in 2008 to Princess Marie, and they went on to welcome two children \u2014 son Henrik, 16, and daughter Athena, 13 \u2014 who moved to the U.S. with them.\n<\/p>\n Princess Marie, Count Henrik, Countess Athena, Count Felix, Count Nikolai and Prince Joachim on the balcony of Amalienborg Palace for Queen Margrethe’s birthday on April 16, 2023.<\/p>\n \u00a0Patrick van Katwijk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n “We are each busy in our own way. The kids are at school, where they enjoy being challenged and have an ever-growing social circle, and I have my job. We are our little nuclear family and enjoy it, and we make sure as much as possible that we also have time for each other,” Joachim said. “That it doesn’t always get in the way of work, school and homework.”\n<\/p>\n However, the royal acknowledged that there’s a different rhythm when they’re in Europe.\n<\/p>\n “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. We can’t travel back and forth, after all, there is a six-hour time difference and an entire ocean in between,” he told TV2. “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.”\n<\/p>\n Prince Joachim and Princess Marie at a New Year’s Gala at Amalienborg Palace on Jan. 1, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n Martin Sylvest Andersen\/Getty<\/p>\n In 2022, Queen Margrethe announced that she was stripping Joachim’s four children of the prince or princess titles and “His\/Her Highness” styling<\/a> they inherited at birth in a surprise step she later described as “necessary future-proofing of the monarchy<\/a>.” Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena then became known as His Excellency Count of Monpezat or Her Excellency Countess of Monpezat (lower-ranking titles within the Danish royal family) starting on Jan. 1 of 2023.\n<\/p>\n The bombshell announcement created a fracture within the family, with Prince Joachim telling the press he felt blindsided by the bombshell<\/a> which upset his children. This seemingly prompted Queen Margrethe to apologize<\/a> and saying she “underestimated” how greatly the shock would shake up the family dynamic, but maintained that it was a necessary step for the crown’s future.\n<\/p>\n Queen Margrethe later abdicated on Jan. 14, 2024, making her elder son King Frederik X of Denmark. That summer, Joachim hinted that his family pushed past the friction around the title stripping, telling The Washington Post, “We’ve moved on.”<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Can’t get enough of PEOPLE’s Royals coverage? Sign up for our free Royals newsletter<\/a> to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n