In his second public appearance, this Wednesday, January 3, after the New Year’s Eve announcement by Queen Margaret of Denmark that on January 14 she will sign her abdication, her heir, Frederick (55), and his wife, Princess Mary of Denmark (51)they have shown themselves smiling in front of the cameras, but they have not dedicated themselves not a single look or complicit gesture. They are about to become the kings of Denmark and they must appear strong at all costs, but their jaws were tight and their jaws were clenched. “Teeth, teeth”, as Pantoja would say.
They know each other in the center of all eyes, and in the middle of a media storm caused by the latest controversies of the first-born, with his photos all over the international press with Genoveva Casanova, the Mexican ‘socialite’ living in Spain and ex of Cayetano Martínez de Irujo. They kicked Madrid.
The scandal would have precipitated the retirement of Margarita (83), they say forced by the ultimatum of the hurt wife: “Either we are kings now, or this is over,” as revealed by the director of the magazine ‘Lecturas’, Luis Pliego.
Kings don’t get divorced
It’s not the first rumor of infidelity that has to be swallowed Mary Elizabeth Donaldson since Almost 24 years ago he met the wayward and lap-dealing Danish heir at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. [por cierto, los presentó durante una noche de copas el primo Felipe de Borbón]. In 2017 it emerged that Federico had paid for the services of a luxury escort. But by force, they hang, and one of the most famous commoners that Tasmania has producedin addition to actors Simon Baker and Errol Flynn, has been preparing for years to bear the weight of the crown and knows full well that kings do not divorce.
First Australian crowned
Who was going to tell the middle class girl who grew up in the residential suburb of Taroona, in a house near the River Derwent, with her three older siblings – Jane Alison (58), a pharmacist, Patricia Anne (56), a nurse and John Stuart (53), a geologist – who sometime day would become the first queen that Australia has giventhe antipodes where numerous British convicts were taken at the end of the 18th century?
Mary is the youngest of the marriage formed by a math teacher and a secretary, both born in Scotland and who emigrated to Australia after their wedding in the 1960s. His mother died in 1997 and his father remarried in 2001 to a British novelist.
He studied in local schools and later graduated in Commerce and Law at the University of Tasmania (1994), where he served as hockey team captain. He also did marketing, moving to Melbourne and Sydney. Until 1998 she was dating a boy, Brent Annells, with whom she later remained friends, and even invited him to her royal wedding (he declined the invitation and sent her brother instead).
Mary was working as a publicist when she met the crown prince, on September 16, 2000. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the future queen was with several friends at the Slip Inn bar, arguing about whether they liked men more with hair on their chests or without, and then, Prince Frederick appeared, accompanied by several royal cousins, all with their shirts open. The publicist had no idea that the boy she started talking to non-stop was the Danish heir. And they did not stop talking during the weeks that the prince was in Australia.
Long distance romance
Thus they began a secret long distance romance. He traveled to Australia several times during 2001, and the Danish magazine, ‘Billed Bladet’, followed the prince to meet his “secret Australian girlfriend, Mary, a pretty, outgoing, talented and perhaps future crown princess.”
Since the relationship was serious, Mary left her job (he later renounced his citizenship and his religion, before, Presbyterian, and later Protestant-Lutheran) and moved to Paris, to avoid media pressure from Denmark. She worked as an English teacher at a business school and occasionally flew to Copenhagen, to Amalienborg Castle.
He learned Danish before the Council of State and Queen Margaret reluctantly announced the wedding with the crown prince, which was held in May 2004 (a few days before Felipe and Letizia).
She is a mother of four children, Christian – who turned 18 last October, and who will become heir since January 14 -, Isabel (2007), Vicente Federico (2011) and Josefina (2011). In those years, while she was pregnant with Elizabeth, Queen Margaret forced Mary to sign second marriage agreements, with the intention of preventing the royal coffers from a new millionaire divorce, like the one she experienced with her other son, Prince Joaquín.
Passion for shoes
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Like the Spanish queen, Máxima Zorreguieta, in the Netherlands, and Kate Middleton, princess of Wales, he became the object of desire of fashion brands. His style is classic in her daily life, with midi dresses and skirts, in neutral colors and soft prints. But what stands out the most is its shoes, its great weakness, always from large luxury houses. For gala occasions, opt for long dresses with rhinestoneswithout stridency, and long sleeves.
Depression
As other princesses did before, such as Diana of Wales, Charlène of Monaco or Victoria of Sweden, who spoke in public about their mental health problems‘the princess of the North Sea’ explained last November on a Danish television program that had suffered depression. “The Crown Princess has worked for many years to combat depression and focus on mental health. At the same time, nature – and the importance of caring for it – is an essential part of the life and work of the Crown Princess,” it read the space promo, which It was recorded shortly before the last bomb of Federico and Genoveva exploded.