Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark: Australia celebrates an unexpected queen - BBC News

Mary Donaldson met Crown Prince Frederik by chance in a Sydney bar - now she's about to become queen of Denmark.

22 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The crown princess is about to become the first Australian-born queen consortBy Hannah RitchieBBC News, SydneyWhen the world's last reigning queen announced her abdication, history was also made in a country far, far away.

"I will hand over the throne to my son Crown Prince Frederik," Queen Margrethe II of Denmark said.

Her decision to make way for "the next generation" of Danish royals has sent ripples around the world.

But it has also delivered the first Australian-born queen consort, Crown Prince Frederik's wife, Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.

Less than a month after Queen Margrethe II took over the throne in 1972 following the death of King Frederick IX, a girl called Mary Donaldson was born on the other side of the world in a small Hobart hospital.

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