Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Courtship

Mary Donaldson met Crown Prince Frederik at the Slip Inn, an inner-city pub in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia during the 2000 Summer Olympics. "It was a party of some Australians and two nephews of the Spanish king, plus Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim, Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Princess Märtha Louise. I didn't know who they were," she later told Danish journalist Anne Wolden-Raethinge in a series of interviews in 2004 that became the basis of a bestselling book called "Kronprinsesse Mary". "Half an hour later one my flatmates came up to me and asked, Do you know these people are prince this and princess that? Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary."

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Sydney - New South Wales - 2000 Summer Olympics - Anne Wolden-Raethinge - 2004

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Mary Donaldson and Crown Prince Frederik became engaged 8 October2003 and were married on 14 May, 2004, in Copenhagen, at Copenhagen Cathedral. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess reportedly spent their honeymoon in Tanzania and Zanzibar, though a Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, said that the royal couple spent part of their honeymoon in Kenya.

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8 October - 2003 - 14 May - 2004 - Copenhagen - Copenhagen Cathedral - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Ekstra Bladet - Kenya

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