Queen Margrethe has not spoken to her family since stripping them of their royal titles. The 82-year-old Danish monarch announced earlier this week that the four children of her second son Prince Joachim - Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20, Henrik, 13, and 10-year-old Athena - will no longer be known as princes and princess or His/Her Highness, and instead will be styled His/Her Excellency Count/Countess of Monzenat and how her 53-year-old son has explained that it is a "very heavy matter" for the family. Asked if his mother had made any contact with the family over the last few days, he said: "Unfortunately not.