Our Shortcuts piece yesterday, on the Duchess of Cornwall's enthusiasm for The Killing and whether the show has now lost its cool, is causing a stir in Denmark, with some of the Danish press taking our concerns entirely at face value. "Camilla makes The Killing un-cool"; "British bloggers are disappointed". So ran the headlines across the Danish newspaper websites, which have long basked in the glory of the crime show's British success.
"[The bloggers] grieve that the royal family has confessed its dry, conservative love for the show, which has gained cult status in Britain," reads a story on the Politiken website. The article was referring to Stuart Heritage's Shortcuts piece and a blogpost by the Daily Telegraph's Guy Stagg, who said that the royal endorsement was a "kiss of death".
However, on the website of the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, a reader took Stagg to task: "It's just a case of a random English blogger whose field of interest is unknown … His afternoon tea was probably bad."
• This article was amended on 29 March. A sub-heading originally referred to Camilla as the Duchess of Cambridge, rather than her correct title, The Duchess of Cornwall.
