About Queen Mary of Denmark
Mary (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson; 5 February 1972) is Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Frederik X. Mary met Frederik (then Crown Prince of Denmark) while attending the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They married on 14 May 2004 at Copenhagen Cathedral. They have four children: Christian, Isabella, Vincent and Josephine. Since her marriage, she has carried out engagements on behalf of the Danish monarchy, and she serves as patron of over 30 charitable organisations, including the United Nations Population Fund, the European regional office of the World Health Organization, the Danish Refugee Council and Julemærkefonden. She founded her social organisation, the Mary Foundation, in 2007. In 2019, Mary was made a rigsforstander, which allows her to act as regent when the monarch is abroad. She became the first Australian-born queen consort of any country upon the abdication of her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe II, on 14 January 2024. She has the additional title of Countess of Monpezat after her husband was given the title in 2008. == Early life == Mary Elizabeth Donaldson was born 5 February 1972 at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Hobart, Tasmania, the youngest of four children of Scottish parents, Henrietta (née Horne) (1942–1997), an executive assistant to the vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania, and John Dalgleish Donaldson (1941–2026), an academic and professor of mathematics who was also a member of Clan Donald. Her paternal grandfather was Captain Peter Donaldson (1911–1978).
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