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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 since.
Queen Mary of Denmark. Mary (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson; 5 February 1972) is Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Frederik X . In 2000, Mary met Frederik (then Crown Prince of Denmark) while attending the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They married on 14 May 2004 at Copenhagen Cathedral.
Jan 15, 2024 · Mary, Queen of Denmark was born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson on 5 February 1972 at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point, Hobart - the capital city of Tasmania. She is the youngest of four...
- 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.
Jan 2, 2024 · The throne will go to her 55-year-old son, Crown Prince Frederik, described by Agence France-Presse (AFP) as a once "rebellious teen" turned "'woke' family man" who champions Denmark's...
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On 14 May 2004, on the occasion of the marriage to His Majesty The King (then His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark), she became Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth of Denmark.
Jan 3, 2024 · The daughter of a mathematics professor and an executive assistant who had emigrated to Australia from Scotland, Mary grew up in a middle-class suburban home alongside her siblings, Jane, Patricia...
