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| Tenure | 14 January 2024 – present |
| Born | Mary Elizabeth Donaldson 5 February 1972 Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Father | John Dalgleish Donaldson |
| Mother | Henrietta Clark Horne |
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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 award-winning 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 of a European country upon the abdication of her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe II, on 14 January 2024.[1]
- ^ "Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark: Australia celebrates an unexpected queen". BBC News. 3 January 2024.