Frederik & Mary in Australia for Sister's Wedding: January 2004

[andiemac]

Mary, Prince visit Tas market
January 17, 2004

DENMARK'S Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian bride-to-be, Mary Donaldson, paid a quick visit to Hobart's Salamanca market today as her family prepared for the wedding of her sister, Patricia.

The market walkabout was filmed by a Danish TV crew, compiling a palace-sanctioned documentary, and the couple's every step was recorded by a determined phalanx of more then a dozen photographers and reporters.

While media interest has been intense over the marriage today of Ms Donaldson's sister, Patricia Woods, no details about the event have been confirmed.

The location of the wedding is a tightly-kept secret, but it is believed it will be held in a private walled garden in the waterside suburb of Sandy Bay.

The reception is believed to be planned at Hobart's popular harbourside restaurant, Rockefellers, with a dinner later at Wrest Point Casino.

Observers say the royal couple appear to be enjoying the attention of the media scrum.

Travelling in a new $200,000 Audi A8 they were today seen laughing cheerfully while playing cat-and-mouse with the persistent band of photographers on their tail.

 

[tigerlilly23]

http://news.com.au/

There is an article about mary putting here smile on hold and how she has taken a very serious poise with the up coming wedding it also says that the danes are missing here lovely smile. It also points out when she got engaged she was happy but at the state dinner they explained that she was ice cold and and scared stiff.
There still saying that she a clever girl and she spends three to seven hours a day learning everthing she can before her wedding.
From everthing i have ready in the newpapers and seen of tv and ready off here it sounds like the media isn't treating her like royality but more like a celberity and i think she does enjoy all the attention she is getting from people at the momment. But the thing i find weird about her is that she is grumpy in denmark and has hidden her smile away from the media and here she is back in oz and she's smiling again . I don't think mary knows wither to smile or frown anymore. Becouse at the momment from this atricle and since she landed back in australia it seems to me she is two faced she acts and carrys herself one way when she is in denmark under pressure from not only fred's family to perform but also she has to jump throw hoops for the media over there as well.
But the minute she lands on home soil she is smiling and laughing again to be back with family and freinds with fred in tow and she is back into here usely bad dress sense once again.

 

[Dennism]

I wouldn't worry. She's still getting used to it all and she's probably nervous about the wedding.

 

[Jasl]

I think it's more about nerves that being about two-faced. There were lots of pictures taken of her in Denmark before the engagement and she was always smiling in those photos. Then I think she began to feel so pressured that she didn't smile so much post-engagement.

Of course this is only my opinion, but Mary seems to have made a conscious effort to be more casual during this trip to Tas.

But yeah, anyway, I don't think Mary is two-faced; being under pressure and being two-faced are very very different things. The latter involves making a conscious decision to appear a different way, whereas the former does not.

Maybe she's more comfortable now because she knows she can speak Danish? I wonder what she said to that camera-man - if it was a long conversation etc.

 

[Yirina77]

some pictures from their stay in Australia

 

[Yirina77]

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[anna]

To me it seems that few posters realize that Mary (5 February 1972) is the youngest of the four siblings in the Donaldson family. She is the only one not married and the only not having children.

Jane (26 December 1965) - Alexander, Erin, Kate

Patricia (16 March 1968) - Michael, Maddison, Molly

John (9 July 1970) - Cherie, Michelle

A.J. in B-B

 

[tigerlilly23]

http://news.com.au/

This article just came in about mary's sister's wedding. This day was for the bride who in this case was mary's sister patricia woods, but when you have a younger sister who has a prince in tow and is four months away from here won special down how can she not steal the lime light from her elder sister. It also says that mary's sister will just have to forgive mary for putting her elder siser in the shade on her wedding day.
Also down in tassie the weather didn't help much either becouse poor mary turn out to be wet , cold and misreable including fred but it didn't seem like she was upset about the weather too much from what i saw on tv tonight. The media and neighbors were all waiting for mary and her prince to make a public appreance with camera ready. Patrica had invited only 80 guests to her wedding.
Evan though mary wasn't included in the bridel party she wore a knee length green skirt with a sheer shawl around the shoulder's while fred wore a dark camel suit,blue shirt and a blue and gold tie.

Opps she did it again! That the second time she has taken the attention away from the most important person the bride and her own sister as well i wonder who her next victim will be letizia.
I wonder why mary wasn't included in the brail party maybe it has samething to do with her being with fred and maybe her sisters know that all the attention she go here way .

 

[Jasl]

O you got to see them on TV? I missed out!! I hope they post links on the net.

It would have been much nicer if the weather cooperated!

 

[anna]

Originally posted by tigerlilly23@Jan 17th, 2004 - 1:36 pm
Opps she did it again! That the second time she has taken the attention away from the most important person  the bride and  her own sister as well i wonder who her next victim will be letizia.

If someone is to "steel" the media attention from the other royal bride in may - it will be Letizia from Mary - as Letizia will attend Mary's wedding a week before her own wedding - Mary will not attend Letizia's wedding at all - as F&M are on their honeymoon and not going to Madrid.

Crown Princess Letizia will certainly be in the center of the attention in Jordan a week into her royalty - and not Noor - as Letizia will attend the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Hamzah.

Mary has attended several wedding as Crown Prince Frederik's girlfriend - this is her first as his fiancée - and in all those occasions she "stole" the media limelight from the bride - but - like Patricia - the brides would not have gotten any attention from the media if Mary had not been there.

I doubt very much that the attention from the family and guests in Patricia's or the other weddings were taken away by Mary's presence.

 

[liv]

Has it already been announced that Mary and Fred will not take part in Felipe and Letizia´s wedding?

 

[Yirina77]

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[anna]

Originally posted by liv@Jan 17th, 2004 - 2:06 pm
Has it already been announced that Mary and Fred will not take part in Felipe and Letizia´s wedding?

Yes, by the Chief of the Court of HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark, Per Thornit, Chamberlain.

 

[liv]

How sad.I´m sure we miss a lovely looking newly-married woman with a diademe for the second time,for me it makes the spanish wedding absolutely less interesting.

 

[andiemac]

Originally posted by anna@Jan 17th, 2004 - 7:57 am

Crown Princess Letizia will certainly be in the center of the attention in Jordan a week into her royalty - and not Noor - as Letizia will attend the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Hamzah.

has it been officially announced that letizia will be in jordan ? what about mary ?

 

[andiemac]

Mary's prince at home
By SHARRI MARKSON in Hobart
18jan04

HE might be the next King of Denmark, but Prince Frederik was treating his fiancee Mary Donaldson like a true princess yesterday.

Attending the wedding of Ms Donaldson's sister, Patricia Woods, in Hobart, Prince Frederik played footman to his princess-to-be, struggling to keep the umbrella over Ms Donaldson as they left the ceremony.
Only months before her own fairytale wedding, Ms Donaldson watched her elder sister walk down the aisle for the second time.

Ms Woods, 35, exchanged vows with her boyfriend of 18 months, Scott Bailey, in a ceremony at a friend's home in the exclusive waterfront suburb of Sandy Bay.

Ms Donaldson, 31, read a love poem that touched guests, who described the reading as "beautiful" and "romantic".

Even the Prince of Denmark was impressed by the low-key ceremony.

"It was the way a wedding should be," he said.

Not in the official bridal party, Ms Donaldson, 31, wore a teal cotton woven dress with a silver silk sash around her waist and matching gold bag and shoes.

She arrived in a blue Holden station wagon with Prince Frederik, who was dressed in a grey suit and blue shirt.

About 40 guests arrived from 3pm for Ms Woods' big day contrasting with her younger sister's planned nuptials in May.

A crowd of more than 300,000 is expected to take to the streets when Ms Donaldson marries Prince Frederik in Copenhagen Cathedral on May 14.

The newlywed royal couple will be led in a horse-drawn carriage to an extravagant reception at an 18th century palace.

But yesterday, friends and family enjoyed a champagne afternoon tea followed by cocktails at Rockefellers Restaurant on the waterfront before continuing the celebrations at Wrest Point Casino.

Ms Woods, a mother of three, works as a nurse and aerobics instructor at Hobart Fitness Centre, where she met Mr Bailey, a keen football player and former lifeguard.

Ms Donaldson, a former real estate agent, appeared happy and relaxed as she proudly introduced her fiance to extended family and friends.

Prince Frederik, who will have Tasmania as his second home, has been seeing the sights with his bride-to-be.

 

[andiemac]

Wedding a warm-up for fairytale couple
By Andrew Darby
January 18, 2004

Mary Donaldson and Crown Prince Frederik, top, arrive at the wedding of her sister Patricia, above.
Pictures: Heath Missen, Peter Mathew

Princess-to-be Mary Donaldson introduced an ancient European monarchy to a modern Australian marriage yesterday, and proved herself a romantic, as well.

Ms Donaldson, 31, from Hobart, will marry Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik in a traditional royal wedding on May 14.

Yesterday, in sharp contrast to the grandness of the occasion to come, the couple helped to celebrate the low-key wedding of Ms Donaldson's sister, Patricia.

Prince Frederik said on arrival in Hobart that he thought yesterday could provide a "road map" for the Danish marriage, and it gave him a chance to get to know the Donaldson family.

But by comparison this was a second marriage with a limited guest list, held at a suburban Hobart house and celebrated later at a restaurant.

Guests said that Ms Donaldson read a poem of her own composition to the couple during the ceremony. Asked about the event, Ms Donaldson said: "I thought it was lovely."

The tight Danish management of the public face of the occasion was a taste of what is to come for the royal wedding.

Since arriving in Hobart, only a Danish television crew sanctioned by the palace in Copenhagen has been told the couple's movements.

Danish bodyguards with the couple blocked a street to traffic in the quiet Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay, and barred access to the house.

A cold front that brought heavy summer rain forced the planned garden ceremony indoors, and in front of about 50 guests Patricia married Scott Bailey, a Hobart plasterer. Their toddler, Molly, also attended. Ms Donaldson wore a floating green dress and high gold sandals, while Mary's father, Scottish-born John Donaldson, wore a kilt in a likely foretaste of Donaldson dress for the royal wedding.

 

[Alexandria]

I think Mary smiles more back in Australia because she is more relaxed.

I think that being back in Australia where she grew up and is most familiar with and is surrounded by her family and people she has known for a while has gone a long way to making her more at ease and comfortable.

Undoubtedly in Denmark she feels the constant pressure and scrutiny. But in Australia, even with the presence of the cameras and the press, Mary has lots of support.

Originally posted by anna@Jan 17th, 2004 - 7:10 am
To me it seems that few posters realize that Mary (5 February 1972) is the youngest of the four siblings in the Donaldson family. She is the only one not married and the only not having children.

I don't understand what Mary being the youngest and unmarried without children has to do with her being allgedly viewed as moody or smiling more in Australia than in Denmark.

She is only 31 year's old -- lots of women are unmarried and without children at her age. And lots of people I know are the only unmarried sibling in their families but that doesn't mean they are moody or grumpy people.

 

[anna]

has it been officially announced that letizia will be in jordan ? what about mary ?[/b]

Crown Prince Felipe told the media about the couple's attendance at those 2 events in may.

Nothing has been said about F&M to Jordan's royal party or not - but I don't think they will go there.

 

[anna]

I don't understand what Mary being the youngest and unmarried without children has to do with her being allgedly viewed as moody or smiling more in Australia than in Denmark.[/b]

I didn't have that negative article in mind at all when I posted the above

I should have quoted one example of what I referred to :

Dennism

@Jan 16th, 2004 - 8:00 pm
I meant Jane then. The one with Mary. That's right. They must be Patricia's kids. Of course, it makes sense.

Nice to get to know about Mary's nieces and nephews though, wasn't it ?

 

[Alexandria]

HOBART, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 17: Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson the fiancée of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark leaves Ms Donaldson's sister Patricia's wedding January 17, 2004 in Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. Crown Prince Frederick and his fiancée Mary, which met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, will wed on May 14 in Copenhagen.

 

[andiemac]

why does she want to wear the hair band like a tiara ?

 

[Alexandria]

HOBART, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 17: Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and his Tasmanian-born fiancee Mary Donaldson arrive for Ms Donaldson's sister Patricia's wedding January 17, 2004 in Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. Crown Prince Frederick and his fiancée Mary, which met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, will wed on May 14 in Copenhagen.


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[Dennism]

Great photos, Alexandria. I like the green. Subtle. Looks like a wet place, of course so it's perfect for the mood too.

 

[Gabriella]

It seems to me, that Frederik and Mary seem "closer" now than they did before. When the engagment photos were taken, they were so stiff and didn't really portray the image of a couple in love. Maybe it was nerves, or Mary just had not yet adjusted to the whole fishbowl idea yet, but now they seem really close and relaxed. I have to say, Mary really has grown on me in the last few months.

 

[Dennism]

"And, Mary and her sisters really do look very much alike!"

I don't know too many Tasmanian women but I think it's safe to say they are the fairest sisters on the Apple Isle. Congratulations to Patricia.

 

[norwegianne]

They look so sweet together...

Oh, and the picture of Frederik trying to stretch out his arm with the umbrella so that it would cover Mary, and he had this slightly desperate look on his face ... too good for words.

How about using that for one of the caption competitions?

 

[Alexandria]

Originally posted by Gabriella@Jan 17th, 2004 - 1:38 pm
It seems to me, that Frederik and Mary seem "closer" now than they did before. When the engagment photos were taken, they were so stiff and didn't really portray the image of a couple in love. Maybe it was nerves, or Mary just had not yet adjusted to the whole fishbowl idea yet, but now they seem really close and relaxed.

I agree, Gabriella, I, too, think that Frederik and Mary seem so much more relaxed at this occasion than on the day of their engagement. They seem not only relaxed in each other's company with the prying eyes of journalists and photographers, but also enjoying each other's company. I've noticed from these Australian visit pictures that the couple seems much more affectionate physically towards each other, such as holding hands, which is sweet to see.

 

[Jasl]

Originally posted by andiemac@Jan 17th, 2004 - 9:52 am

She arrived in a blue Holden station wagon with Prince Frederik, who was dressed in a grey suit and blue shirt.

LOL!!! It's great that they arrived in a Holden!! Holden's are as Australian as you can be and are absolutely everwhere in Australian (coz they're made here). That should score Fred some brownie points with the Aussies!!!

 

[Times2222]

Fred and Mary looked happy together in these recent of them in Australia.