Sunday 26 June 2022 10:18 PM The Queen was warned not to mention Denmark's porn industry before Her Majesty ... trends now
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It is hard to imagine that the Queen would feel the need to discuss Denmark’s thriving pornography industry.
But before she met Margrethe II during the Queen of Denmark’s state visit to the UK in 1974, she was advised not to mention the nation’s ‘reputation as the pornography capital of Europe’.
Royal biographer and Mail writer Robert Hardman told the Chalke Valley History Festival yesterday how the information was included in a briefing note for Her Majesty.
The Queen was provided with a list of 'topics to avoid' before her meeting with Danish Queen Margrethe, pictured
‘Whenever she’s meeting any world leader there’s always two files she studies very closely,’ Hardman explained. ‘One is called “personality notes” and the other “topics to be avoided”. They don’t hold back, either.’
One entry in ‘personality notes’ about an unnamed Caribbean prime minister in 1977 described him as ‘unbalanced, at times to the point of apparent derangement’ and ‘a ladies’ man with a particular liking for blondes’.
The pornography issue appeared in the ‘topics to be avoided’ file ahead of the meeting with the Queen of Denmark. It said: ‘Danes are sensitive about Denmark’s reputation as the pornography capital of Europe.’
Hardman, whose book Queen Of Our Times: The Life Of Elizabeth II came out this year, told an audience at the festival, held annually
