Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Mary Elizabeth, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat ( born February 5, 1972 in Hobart / Tasmania in Australia; born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson ) is the wife of the Danish heir to the throne, Crown Prince Frederik.
Life
HM Queen Margrethe II HRH Prince Consort Henrik
- HRH Crown Prince Frederik HRH Crown Princess Mary HRH Prince Christian
- HRH Princess Isabella
- HRH Prince Vincent
- HRH Princess Josephine
- SH Prince Nikolai
- SH Prince Felix
- SH Prince Henrik
- IH Princess Athena
HRH Princess Benedikte HM Queen Anne -Marie of Greece
IH Princess Elisabeth
Origin
Her parents are John Dalgleish Donaldson Scottish couple ( born September 5, 1941) and Henrietta Clark Donaldson ( born May 12, 1942 † 20 November 1997). Mary has three siblings: Jane Alison Stephens ( born December 26, 1965), Patricia Anne Woods ( born March 16, 1968), and John Stuart Donaldson ( born July 9, 1970). John Dalgleish and Henrietta Clark Donaldson emigrated shortly after their wedding on August 31, 1963 in Edinburgh to Australia. Twelve years later, she received an Australian citizen. John Donaldson is Professor of Applied Mathematics, Henrietta Donaldson worked as an assistant for the Vice Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. After her mother's death in 2001 the father married Susan Elizabeth Horwood.
Education and professional experience
From 1974 to 1989 Mary Donaldson visited various schools, at least one year in Houston, Texas and then in Hobart. As of 1989, Mary attended the University of Tasmania in Hobart, which she left in 1994 with a Bachelor of Commerce and Law ( BCom.LLB ). From 1994 to 1996 she took additional training in marketing. From 1995 to 2002, she worked for several companies with marketing and advertising, DDB Needham, Young & Rubicam, Microsoft Business Solutions, and others. In 1998 she undertook a year-long world tour that took them to Europe and to the USA and worked in Edinburgh. From 2002 up to her marriage she worked in France and Denmark.
Besides her native English, she is fluent in Danish. She studied French and lived for five months in Paris.
Marriage and children
Princess Mary met Frederik during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the know " Slip Inn ". The couple married on 14 May 2004 in Copenhagen.
Princess Mary gave up her British and Australian citizenship. The Folketing has awarded her with a special law, the Danish citizenship.
On 30 April 2008 announced the Danish royal house, that the descendants and their spouses of the royal couple received the title of "Count / Countess of Monpezat ".
The royal couple has four children:
Public duties and interests
Since their marriage in 2004, the Crown Princess is involved in various projects in the fields of art, culture, social affairs and research. So it is, for example, active for the World Health Organization and took, among other sponsorships for the children's choir of the Music Conservatory Børnekor, in the area of refugee assistance and various other social projects.
On 11 September 2007 was Princess Mary, the establishment of its own foundation known. The aim of the Mary Fonden is to preserve socially disadvantaged persons against social exclusion. The endowment of 1.1 million Danish kroner comes from funds that received the royal couple on the occasion of his wedding from donors in Denmark and Greenland.