It is exactly ten years since Mary Donaldson married Crown Prince Frederik. Young ladies remember the day for the fairy-tale-like transformation from private person to princess. Young men remember the father of the bride’s kilt giving the Royal Family a flash of his own family jewels. That and the groom crying.
Frederik was something of a trailblazer in the recent run of high-profile heir-to-the-throne/civilian weddings – it would be seven years before Prince William joined the trend by wedding ‘Kate the commoner’.
Celebration photos
To celebrate the tin wedding anniversary of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, the Danish Royal House has released a photo collection documenting the happy couple’s ten years of bliss.
The gallery includes shots of the wedding day in 2004 (although none of the kilt-flashing or the wedding weeping), some holiday photos with the Queen and Prince Henrik, a lot of the offspring and a family portrait (see above).
Australian friends
The wedding didn’t just unite the pair; it strengthened ties between their two homelands – so much so that only last week, hosts Denmark paved the way for Australia to 'enter' the Eurovision Song Contest.
A more official gesture came in 2005 when two pairs of Tasmanian devils were symbolically given to Copenhagen Zoo to mark the birth of Frederik and Mary’s first-born, Prince Christian.
The zoo became the first place outside of Tasmania and Australia where the animals could be seen. The last of the original devils died in 2012. As far as we know, the zoo didn’t kill them.
