Prince Nikolai Of Denmark

Opps, grandma just gave him and his siblings notice that they are being stripped of their princely titles. Said that she once noted that she did not like the mix of celebrity and royalty. But they are using the excuse of a slimmed down monarchy. Her younger son officially moved to Paris away from court. They are using their titles for access. The Swedes did this a year ago as well. Princess and princesses are going extinct.

Anyway, come January 1st he will no longer be a prince, demoted to count. His mother, in a tweet, is super upset about this.
 
Opps, grandma just gave him and his siblings notice that they are being stripped of their princely titles. Said that she once noted that she did not like the mix of celebrity and royalty. But they are using the excuse of a slimmed down monarchy. Her younger son officially moved to Paris away from court. They are using their titles for access. The Swedes did this a year ago as well. Princess and princesses are going extinct.

Anyway, come January 1st he will no longer be a prince, demoted to count. His mother, in a tweet, is super upset about this.
Him being a celebrity/model is definitely weird. Being a prince far down the succession, centuries ago he would have been a Knight. Today he models. I can see where granny is coming from.
 
Him being a celebrity/model is definitely weird. Being a prince far down the succession, centuries ago he would have been a Knight. Today he models. I can see where granny is coming from.
Not likely. Knights are liked hired hands. They would usually report to the Lord of their county or directly to a King (more rare). A prince of the blood would not be regulated to knighthood, a demotion. A prince would more likely sit around some cast-off royal residence on a nice, but not too nice, stipend. Their parents would either send them to the church, if desperate, or marry them off to an heiress, preferably one with an extra home and land for the prince and his new bride to call their own.

But becoming a knight would be very very rare and an affront to their princely titles and rank. A prince would be itching for a chance to gain glory, and spoils, in one of their monarch's battles. But all of that can and would be achieved without being knighted. Of course, I'm talking middle ages forward. Before that, the formalized view of royalty was still taking shape.
 
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Not likely. Knights are liked hired hands. They would usually report to the Lord of their county or directly to a King (more rare). A prince of the blood would not be regulated to knighthood, a demotion. A prince would more likely sit around some cast-off royal residence on a nice, but not too nice, stipend. Their parents would either send them to the church, if desperate, or marry them off to an heiress, preferably one with an extra home and land for the prince and his new bride to call their own.

But becoming a knight would be very very rare and an affront to their princely titles and rank. A prince would be itching for a chance to gain glory, and spoils, in one of their monarch's battles. But all of that can and would be achieved without being knighted. Of course, I'm talking middle ages forward. Before that, the formalized view of royalty was still taking shape.

relegated*

But otherwise, thanks for explanation!