2. She had a dream of becoming a veterinarian
Mary was born in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, the daughter of a mathematics professor and an executive assistant.
As a child, Mary had such a relaxed and well-dressed style that a national newspaper, The Australian, praised her in a front-page article, calling her “Queen Frannie, living the fairytale dream.”
Franny is Australian slang for a flannel shirt, and Mary loved it from an early age.
“I was a T-shirt and shorts girl, known for walking barefoot,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times.
Like most Australians, she attended public school and took part in extracurricular activities such as horse riding and sports.
She studied law and commerce at university and moved to Melbourne and then Sydney to pursue a career in advertising, before moving into real estate.
Shortly after getting engaged in 2003, she told reporters: “I don’t remember ever thinking that I wanted to be a princess someday. I wanted to be a veterinarian.”
3. How did she learn Danish?
How did Crown Princess Mary learn Danish, which is notoriously difficult to learn?
According to Vogue magazine, before Mary married Prince Frederick, she took “princess lessons” from Frederick’s head of court, Lord Chamberlain Parr Thornit, which included a crash course in languages and history. It is said to have been included.
The princess impressed Danes with her ability to quickly learn Danish, which reflected well in opinion polls.
Crown Princess Mary is hugely popular among Danes, with an approval rating of 85 percent in a recent poll conducted by Danish public radio station DR.
“She has become so popular that in recent years one could even say that her role has had to be downplayed a little. She therefore risks being overshadowed by the Crown Prince, who is destined to become monarch one day.” There will be no harm,” Danish royal expert Lars Hovbacke Sørensen told The New York Times.
4. Grand royal wedding
On May 14, 2004, the couple married in the capital’s Copenhagen Cathedral.
Crown Princess Mary wore a long-sleeved ivory silk wedding dress with a 5.8 meter train and Irish lace veil by Danish designer Uffe Frank.
Her father, John Dalgliesh Donaldson, walked her down the aisle wearing a Scottish kilt, a nod to Scottish heritage.
Crown Prince Mary’s parents immigrated to Australia from Scotland before she was born, and she spent most of her youth there.
After the ceremony, the bride and groom rode in a horse-drawn carriage to the reception at Christian VII’s Palace, where they waved and kissed from the balcony in front of a cheering crowd.
“The joy and strength you give me are like the midday sun, which with its radiance melts all doubt and darkness on earth,” the prince said in his reception speech. “And like the moon at night, you shine with a light of careful and delicate tenderness.”
And who said that fairy tales cannot become reality?