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- Princess Mary grew up in Australia. Born Mary Donaldson in Hobart, Australia, the future royal spent nearly her entire childhood in Tasmania—except for one brief year when her family moved to Houston, Texas after her father took a job at the Johnson Space Center.
- Like Kate Middleton, Mary is from a simple background. Mary did not come from a formal aristocratic background—just like another beloved Queen-in-waiting, the Princess of Wales.
- She met Prince Frederik on a night out. Mary and Frederik met at the Slipp Inn, a Sydney bar, during the 2000 Olympic Games. He was with the now King Felipe VI of Spain (then the Prince of Asturias), who knew Mary’s roommate.
- The two wed in May 2004. Mary wore a long-sleeved ivory silk wedding dress and an Irish lace veil for her royal wedding at Copenhagen Cathedral in May 2004.
Jan 2, 2024 · Crown Princess Mary of Denmark looks like a young Kate Middleton rocking low-rise jeans in rare noughties photo. The Australian-born royal looks unrecognisable in the barefoot...
Jan 10, 2024 · Princess Mary: How a young Tasmanian girl became Queen of Denmark. 1 of 57 Attribution: Getty/Nine. By Maddison Leach January 09, 2024 - 10:11pm. Mary Donaldson first made headlines in the early 2000s, when she was connected romatically to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark for the first time.
Jan 15, 2024 · Here's what we know about the young royal. Who is Prince Christian? Prince Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark and Count of Monpezat, is the oldest child of King Frederik X and Queen Mary.
- She met Crown Prince Frederik in a pub. The fateful encounter has been dubbed a modern-day fairy tale. A real estate manager at that time, 28 year-old Mary Donaldson found herself chatting to “Fred” — or Prince Frederik — at a pub in September 2000.
- She had dreams of becoming a veterinarian. Born in Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Mary is the daughter of a mathematics professor and an executive assistant.
- How she learnt Danish. How did Crown Princess Mary learn Danish, a notoriously difficult language to master? Before she got married to Crown Prince Frederik, Mary took “princess lessons” taught by Frederik’s head of court, Lord Chamberlain Per Thornit, which included intensive language and history courses, according to Vogue.
- The big royal wedding. On May 14, 2004, the pair married at the Copenhagen Cathedral, in the nation’s capital. Crown Princess Mary wore a long-sleeved ivory silk wedding dress with a 5.8 metre train by Danish designer Uffe Frank and an Irish lace veil.
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Feb 2, 2022 · As crown princess, Mary is the future queen of Denmark. Australian by birth, she married Queen Margrethe II’s eldest son in 2004, and has been a consistent figure on the world stage ever...
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