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On Jan. 14, Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik, 55, is set to take the throne alongside his wife, currently Crown Princess Mary, 51, whose appointment as the first Australian-born Queen Consort is ...
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson was born 5 February 1972 at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania. [2] She is youngest of four children to Scottish parents, Henrietta (née Horne), an executive assistant to the vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania, and John Dalgleish Donaldson, an academic, mathematics professor and member of the Clan Donald.
The abdication leaves Denmark with two queens: Margrethe keeps her title, while Frederik’s wife becomes Queen Mary. Frederik and Mary’s eldest son Christian, 18, has become crown prince and ...
Frederik and Mary became officially engaged on 8 October 2003. Frederik presented Mary with an engagement ring featuring an emerald cut diamond and two emerald cut ruby baguettes. [3] Prior to the wedding, Mary, who had previously been a dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom, was granted Danish citizenship.
Here, as Denmark's new monarch begins his reign, take a look back at Frederik's life in photos: 1968 Frederik was born on May 26, 1968, the oldest son of then-Princess Margrethe and her husband ...
Prince Frederik as an infant in the arms of his mother, 1968. Frederik was born by emergency caesarean section at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital in Copenhagen, on 26 May 1968 at 23:50 [5] to the then Princess Margrethe (later Queen Margrethe II), oldest daughter of King Frederik IX and heir presumptive to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik.
Following Frederik’s ascension to the throne on 14 January, her husband has assumed the new title of King of Denmark while Mary will be henceforth known as the Queen of Denmark.
Frederik and Mary have four children; their eldest, Prince Christian, is now heir to the throne of Denmark. When asked about the future of the monarchy, Mary said, "We have not set a fixed route ...