the royal family also know that it is a modern media world. in a way, what the danishs done is make themselves almost normal. sort of a paradox, but it is also the dilemma of many modern royal families, that you need to maintain a certain distance and you need to be elevated, to a certain extent, but at the same time, if you are too distant, you separate yourself from the people that you are really representing. danes generally approve of slimming down there monarchy and removing titles. it was the abrupt way it was done that caused a crisis, and that is where the queen's woman of the people reputation came in handy. king charles might want to think on that. the house of windsor has been rocked by infighting and scandal, and the british press has revelled in it, and given them a very hard time about it. this family here in denmark has also had scandals, and its share of infighting recently. but they have got a press that is more respectful, and the queen has done something that is kind of brilliant in managing the media. she has allowed herself to be vulnerable in publ

the royal family also know that it is a modern media world. in a way, what the danishhemselves almost normal. sort of a paradox, but it is also the dilemma of many modern royal families, that you need to maintain a certain distance and you need to be elevated, to a certain extent, but at the same time, if you are too distant, you separate yourself from the people that you are really representing. danes generally approve of slimming down there monarchy and removing titles. it was the abrupt way it was done that caused a crisis, and that is where the queen's woman of the people reputation came in handy. king charles might want to think on that. the house of windsor has been rocked by infighting and scandal, and the british press has revelled in it, and given them a very hard time about it. this family here in denmark has also had scandals, and its share of infighting recently. but they have got a press that is more respectful, and the queen has done something that is kind of brilliant in managing the media. she has allowed herself to be vulnerable in public, and open, an

the danish royal family stays popular by being at one with the people, by being accessible and normali've read about the norwegian royal family, their popularity stems from their tolerance. they are incredibly liberal. and the most remarkable thing about it is that this is all driven, it seems, by the king, who is 86 years old, and gives speeches in favour of gay rights and refugees and racial tolerance, and just seems so of the 21st century. and i'm really interested to see if that's what makes them such successful monarchs. here is the royal palace, and what's missing — where is the gate and the wall and the imposing barricades? you can just walk straight up to the front door. at what point do they stop me? the tourists can just come up and say hello and chat to you? yes, it's a bit different from the guards in england. they are more robotic than we are, we are more like humans. but we are allowed to talk and we are allowed to take pictures. that's great. you're a bit like the royal family, you're accessible and friendly? kind of. we don't want people to be scared of us. it's... oft