 |
|
08-19-2008, 03:58 AM
|
 |
Aristocracy
|
|
Join Date: May 2006
Location: mt barker, Australia
Posts: 143
|
|
|
08-19-2008, 06:03 AM
|
 |
Heir Presumptive
|
|
Join Date: May 2006
Location: -, New Zealand
Posts: 2,359
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Madame Royale
Trivial? You got that right...  ...I'd imagine you've been studying hard? I can certainly understand your need to 'break away' from it all.
Not really because 'someone' (or financing body) has to pay, and I hardly think Mary, in the position she's in, would purposely abuse such an arrangement just beacuse "she can". I stand by my initial response...  |
Yes I have been, its been a really hard grind these last 3 weeks but then hopefully I can return to more normal work hours and stress levels before the build up again for exams.
I used to have it so easy and I never even knew it!
Fair enough, thats absolutely your right, and I didnt mean to say that she would purposley abuse the arrangement/her position either, perhaps it comes with being a student and having to pack so carefully when I fly (being overweight can cost more than some of the clothes I own!!!) that my perspective is a bit coloured...  Sorry...
The amount of press following her to buy nappies looks incredible. I realise thats its been a decent amount of time since Mary's been in Australia, but I feel for the woman. Glad she's smiling!
|
08-19-2008, 06:04 AM
|
 |
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mandø, Denmark
Posts: 3,897
|
|
Wow, who would have thought, that it´s so much fun to buy some nappies. Maybe it´s really time to go off contraception
|
08-19-2008, 06:14 AM
|
 |
Royal Highness
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,971
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lena
Wow, who would have thought, that it´s so much fun to buy some nappies. Maybe it´s really time to go off contraception |
- can't wait for the pics of the outcome.
It is a bit over the top with all these photographers following her everywhere.
__________________
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
|
08-19-2008, 07:00 AM
|
|
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
Posts: 3,992
|
|
|
Gee I don't envy her one bit...
As much as it's nice to see photo's of Mary, Frederik and the children, I'd rather not know what they are up to on their private holidays. I haven't seen the pictures and I won't endeavour to look either.
Such is the life of HRH The Crown Princess of Denmark.
__________________
"Dressing is a way of life" - Monsieur Saint Laurent
|
08-19-2008, 07:52 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Posts: 7,232
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paty
|
That's a pure celebrity and attention stunt, I guess Mary likes to be seen on her private vacation. If she wanted to be private she would have send a member of her entourage to buy nappies as she does when she is in Denmark. I guess the next step will be complaining about paparazzi being intrusive on a private occasion.
|
08-19-2008, 08:04 AM
|
 |
Aristocracy
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: , United States
Posts: 109
|
|
|
Perhaps she wanted to see the store for personal reasons. A friendship with the pharmacist, or just to touch base with something that was a memory. I always cruise my old haunts to catch up when I go home, as I am sure many others do too.
|
08-19-2008, 08:12 AM
|
|
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
Posts: 3,992
|
|
Quote:
|
That's a pure celebrity and attention stunt..
|
How you can rationalise that statement, I'm not so sure.
She is currently holidaying privately with her family. It is a private occasion, incase you happened to miss that. Everything Mary does while in Tasmania is of a pesonal nature.
Wouldn't be much of a holiday if you're cooped up in your sisters home the whole time, having to judge your every move on the intrusiveness of the media. Quite rediculous and particularly unfair to insinuate she should.
She should be able to do such things without being harassed, and the fact that she can't does not then justify your above statement.
__________________
"Dressing is a way of life" - Monsieur Saint Laurent
|
08-19-2008, 08:14 AM
|
 |
Courtier
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Perth, Australia
Posts: 821
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade
That's a pure celebrity and attention stunt, I guess Mary likes to be seen on her private vacation. If she wanted to be private she would have send a member of her entourage to buy nappies as she does when she is in Denmark. I guess the next step will be complaining about paparazzi being intrusive on a private occasion.
|
So, it's been reported that the DRF is on a private holiday in Tasmania and they are expected to stay indoors, out of sight for the entire visit? That seems a little sad  . Mary needs to buy nappies for the little one but she has to send a member of her entourage to buy them? That's a little sad . Why is it that Mary and her family can't enjoy a few days off, visiting family without the little parasites buzzing around snapping pictures at every given opportunity? It was reported that the holiday was a private visit, isn't that enough to keep the mosquitoe's away.
__________________
Everyone is born right-handed, only the gifted overcome it!!
|
08-19-2008, 08:18 AM
|
|
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
Posts: 3,992
|
|
Quote:
|
isn't that enough to keep the mosquitoe's away.
|
Apparently not, Crisscross1. And I agree, how entirely sad.
__________________
"Dressing is a way of life" - Monsieur Saint Laurent
|
08-19-2008, 08:20 AM
|
 |
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Munich, Germany
Posts: 3,328
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade
If she wanted to be private she would have send a member of her entourage to buy nappies as she does when she is in Denmark. I guess the next step will be complaining about paparazzi being intrusive on a private occasion.
|
The question is how much of an entourage she took with her as I guess her sister doesn't employ footmen to go shopping for her. And what sense is there in staying inside the house when you travelled round the world to be home again? Plus the offers in pharmacies, supermarkets and other shops are different in Australia and Denmark if you don't count international brands like those infamous nappies - so going into a shop certainly gave her back a bit of the flair of being back in Tasmania.
Plus it was a good occassion to show the paparazzi and reporters how ridiculous it is what they are doing - just read the reader comments to the Mercury for reporting as frontpage news that Princess Mary bought nappies - of all things... Might make some TV producers and editors think twice if they should pay for the coverage of such events for days on end.
But I hope Mary and her family will be able to find again a secret place in Australia to holiday without paparazzi intrusion, just like they managed the last time the Danish relatives visited. 
__________________
'To dare is to lose one step for but a moment, not to dare is to lose oneself forever' - Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark in a letter to Miss Mary Donaldson as stated by them on their official engagement interview.
|
08-19-2008, 08:32 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Posts: 7,232
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Madame Royale
How you can rationalise that statement, I'm not so sure.
She is currently holidaying privately with her family. It is a private occasion, incase you happened to miss that. Everything Mary does while in Tasmania is of a pesonal nature.
|
The Danish like to advertise their private occasions almost as much as if it was an official event. If these visits to Australia are private why do they announce them - partly with an agenda - weeks or month in advance. Given people are interested in an autralian-born danish princess the paparazzi will be around and IMO Mary and Fred do nothing to prevent such a scenario - to me it rather looks as if they feel flattered by Mary's celebrity status in Australia. Yes in an ideal world people should get attention when on business and be left alone when on private occasions but that is only a fairy tale these days.
|
08-19-2008, 08:44 AM
|
 |
Commoner
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: paris, France
Posts: 35
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade
That's a pure celebrity and attention stunt, I guess Mary likes to be seen on her private vacation. If she wanted to be private she would have send a member of her entourage to buy nappies as she does when she is in Denmark. I guess the next step will be complaining about paparazzi being intrusive on a private occasion.
|
Isn't that the Queen of Denmark did her own shopping in a local market when she's in France too? Is that mean she's looking for attention stunt too
|
08-19-2008, 08:46 AM
|
|
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
Posts: 3,992
|
|
|
The Danish royals, as with any other royal family, are 'property' of state. They do not advertise their holidays (Summer at Gråsten and in France aside, as they are largely considered a tradtion of sorts), but confirm them as is required for them to do so.
Nothing is mentioned about their private holiday (meaning, what it is they shall be doing whilst on holiday) by their court or the royals themselves. Why? Because it's a private vacation.
Only their few formal engagements while on the continent have been noted in the papers and confirmed by the court, officially. Again, that is hardly advertising one's vacation, though it is confirming what is required to be confirmed.
__________________
"Dressing is a way of life" - Monsieur Saint Laurent
|
08-19-2008, 10:08 AM
|
 |
Heir Apparent
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: , United States
Posts: 3,137
|
|
|
I'm not at all sure why it is Mary's fault that the paparrazzi are taking photos of her when she is buying nappies? Is she not allowed to do any kind of the normal things that a mother does? The poor woman can do no right apparently. Damned if she sends someone else to buy the nappies, as she is being "too demanding and high maintenance and not normal enough" and damned if she goes herself for trying to create media frenzy.
DoM, I think that your assessment of the situation here is a little off base. I mean really, what do you think that she should do when she is on vacation? Stay in her room?
And furthermore, it's not Mary who is creating the demand for these photos, but those of us who look at them and buy the magazines. If we didn't want them, then the papparazzi would not waste their time. They could take heaps of photos of me (not that I would be at all pleased if they did, mind you) but they wouldn't sell a single one, so they aren't likely to are they?
|
08-19-2008, 10:12 AM
|
 |
Heir Presumptive
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: las vegas, United States
Posts: 2,182
|
|
|
i suppose she like to do all kind of normal things like she use to do in the past before her marriage, but i am sure she knew that it would be a papparazzi frenzzi, she might enjoy it too and have fun, she is smiling...so i presume she is ok
__________________
Ashelen
|
08-19-2008, 10:48 AM
|
 |
Royal Highness
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Sun Prairie, United States
Posts: 1,591
|
|
|
I think it's really pathetic that a "diaper run" as we call it is considered a newsworthy event! It just makes the journalists and photographers look foolish!
It would be ridiculous to try and fit them into luggage to take them with you on the plane. And it wouldn't be smart to send a Danish dtaff member out to get them when they have no idea where to go, presumably never having been there before. Besides, it's a vacation - why can't she try to get back a little normalcy?
|
08-19-2008, 10:48 AM
|
|
Commoner
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Hobart, Australia
Posts: 25
|
|
Well in all fairness to the media, rembering most have travelled from Denmark and their boss's no doubt want a return on the costs involved, it might not have created such a frenzy if the Danish media co-ordinator had not made the statement below to the press. Also the timimg of the outing and blocking the roads when children were coming out of school. It has been announced that Mary likes to pick up her niece from school, so we will probably get the same media frenzy again.
"Although Danish royal media co-ordinator and former Tasmanian journalist Nina Fudala said no public events were planned, there was a hint that the princess "might be around on Tuesday afternoon".
No-pomp Princess Mary flies in | Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
|
|
|
|
Tags
|
australia, christian, crown prince frederik, crown princess mary, frederik, holiday, isabella, mary, mary donaldson, prince christian, prince frederik, princess isabella, vacation  |
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional Links |
|
|
|
Chevy Camaro Forum
Ford Mustang Forum
Jeep Wrangler Forum
Volkswagen Touareg Forum
Land Rover Defender Forum
