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Crossing up those who hoped she might wait around for Britain's Bonnie Prince Charlie, Denmark's vivacious Princess Anne-Marie, 16, got engaged to a darkly handsome older man, 22-year-old Crown Prince Constantino of Greece. At the royal announcement, Greek and Danish flags sprouted side by side on Copenhagen's public buildings; crowds cheered lustily as the betrothed appeared on the balcony of Amalienborg Castle. Even publicity-hating King Frederik IX relented and let the couple pose for a group of 42 photographers. "Take it easy," he told the pair as they began...
...forced the paper into the role of minority voice. Today a Radical-Liberal coalition is in power, and instead of swearing daily allegiance to the throne, Tidende finds gentle fault, taking circumspect swipes at the high cost of a welfare state, plumping a little more insistently than Parliament for Denmark's entrance into the Common Market...
What has not changed is Tidende's dominance in an overcrowded field. Tiny Denmark, only half the size of Maine and no more populous than North Carolina, fields no less than 80 dailies. But in two centuries, Tidende has become an unbreakable habit. On its circulation lists are descendants of subscribers originally signed up by Ernst Berling. In Copenhagen, a city of 1,250,000, the seven papers that compete with Tidende's three -which include B.T., a tabloid, and the evening Berlingske Aftenavis-together muster a circulation barely matching the Tidende group...
...Like Denmark itself, Tidende does not so much meet adversity as make sly jokes about it. After Hitler's Nazis occupied Denmark, the country's press went on printing in captivity, but Tidende wasted few chances to snipe at the Germans in print. "Now the monkeys also have to work," read the caption beneath a picture in B.T., imported from Hamburg, that showed some presumably Aryan monkeys disporting in a cornfield. A Wehrmacht officer who demanded a story in Tidende on his regimental band was politely informed that he would have to pay 10 kroner for the "advertisement...
...three unmarried daughters would make sentimental copy, but the tabs mostly ignore them. When Princess Anne-Marie, the youngest and fairest, embarked on a mild romance with Prince Constantin of Greece. B.T. agonized awhile, then decided to be sensational. "Is this more than friendship?" it asked. All over Denmark, eyebrows lifted at such journalistic impertinence...