Crown Princess Mary's Official Visit to Prague; September 21st-22nd, 2006

[Australian]

DID you hear the one about the princess and the mayor?
Certainly Prague's Lord Mayor saw the funny side when Australian-born Crown Princess Mary started the jokes on a trip to the Czech Republic.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the...431949040.html

[ZZZ]

Australians in Prague greet their Danish Princess

Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) - Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, who is visiting the Czech Republic, was greeted enthusiastically by Australians while on a stroll in Prague on Thursday.

Prague is a very beautiful place, the Australian-born Princess Mary told CTK after a boat trip along the Vltava River, where she was accompanied by the wife of Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Livia Klausova.

http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?st...anish-Princess

[princess olga]

Mary's looked her best she's ever looked on this trip it seems to me. The combo of diet/stylists/royal budget for clothes/good hair dresser/hunky hubby at home, certainly seems to yield results for this otherwise, to me, pretty-in-a-plain-ish-way girl next door, the variety of which one encounters dozens of times in a day.

What is interesting too, in my opinion, is that each time her lady in waiting is in a picture, she totally outshines Mary, in charisma, looks, the works.

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by Australian

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the...431949040.html

The above mentioned article has this paragraph:

"During a walk from the 14th-century Charles Bridge to Old Town Square the princess drew the attention of a group of Australian tourists who recognised her immediately.
"She is one of us," cried one of them proudly.
The tourists surrounded the princess and wanted to take photographs of her, causing her bodyguards to force their way through the crowd."

Has anyone read in another source how Mary reacted to that? Was she annoyed, business-like, uninterested or did she take the time to say hello to her former countrymen but finally had to go on having her bodyguards forcing her a way?

I just wonder as this incident for me is only interesting in view of Mary's reaction - otherwise I think things like that will happen any time she steps out into a touristy place.

[Lady Bluffton]

My husband thought the lady in waiting was a real fox...better looking than Mary, because he said, who is the princess? the red head?

HA!

[ricarda]

Originally Posted by ricarda

Moreover I read somewhere that the Czech President and his wife will come to Denmark in the near future.
Not sure if this is true, though.

It's a fact now.
The Czech President (and maybe his wife?) will come to Denmark and
Queen Margrethe will host a lunch for him at Fredensborg on Nov., 9th.
Mary will participate.
http://www.kronprinsparret.dk/2000f/Year/2006/Month/11

[Ducii]

I found a video about her visit:

YouTube - Crown Princess Mary visits Prague (2006)

[antonieta]

Thank you so much for the video Ducii.