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05-13-2009, 11:30 AM
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I find this topic offensive--it is not anymore ethical than those reporters who dug into Mary's garbage in Tasmania. Who on earth wants their old, unflattering pictures displayed. I say, "Enough."
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I don't think that the topic is offensive. We all have pictures of us when we were younger and that were taken at different points in our lives. Everyone is looking at and discussing how Mary has changed. It's no different than looking at our own personal photographs and albums and looking back at how much we have changed physically and remembering past times. Flattering or not, they are simply a part of life. After all, Mary may be the Crown Princess of Denmark, but she is still a human being.
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05-13-2009, 12:37 PM
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Why itīs offensive?
Do you think itīs offensive a normal working girl to imagine that what happened to Crown Pincess Mary could happen to her?
Unflaterring pictures?
Wasn't crown princess mary an ordinary girl?
SO of course she has unflattering pictures, like an ordinary PERSON has.
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I agree! Why offensive?
We know all royals by heart since the day they were born.
Why Mary, although a post-marriage royal, should be excluded?
As it concerns me, I began focusing on Mary after having watched the you tube video about her presentation to the Danish people.
She was stunning! Nice manners, excellent flow of thought, really relaxed, open-minded, social, ....
Until then I did not consider her really interesting as she appeared to me as average...
Do you know how many old photos of Mary that video presents? 
Besides, looking at Mary's old photos is not in any way considered equal to the search of her garbage  (by certain "yellow journalists"  )... Not flatten everything...
The old photos show real, every-day, working Mary before her media transformation, her real smile to the person taking the shoot, not the "today smile" to professional photographers.
We cannot cancel her appearance or her whole existence in the pre-Frederich era or magically make the photos disappear/hide them in a cellar...
In any way now she is a public figure, she is exposed greatly,...
so her life, yes prior to meeting frederick, IS worthwhile and interesting...
Mary's old photos teach us how we may evolve creatively in the course of life, from the average to something better until we reach our best.
And on this, Mary has made the best of her potential, so she is a model for us all.
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05-13-2009, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Currier
I find this topic offensive--it is not anymore ethical than those reporters who dug into Mary's garbage in Tasmania. Who on earth wants their old, unflattering pictures displayed. I say, "Enough."
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What's the problem about these pictures? She is just a normal person, she's not doing unspeakables acts on them...
I'm certainly not the greatest fan of Mary, but why should she be judged on how she looks on these photos?
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05-14-2009, 05:15 AM
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E.g. watching the driverīs license pic out of the garbage might not be the nicest thing ethical-wise...but it reminds me, that there is something nice behind this geisha make-up wearing, starving, haughty, Stenevald-ised, starmakercours-ed woman!
I am not those getting, who finde the "new" Mary so much better. Of course she partly wore awful fashion (lycra tops with neonpink lipstick) or just casual wear in the old pics and it seems at times she was a bit too muscular or had some baby fat (keyword: cheeks) left...and in the very first Paparazzi pix, she had a "shocked Bambi" look (kind of like Daniel Westling...for quite some time)...but in some pix, I find her so much more beautiful than today...and that not just, because she was younger.
But oh well...taste is different. For me a healthy look makes you attractive and stylish isnīt beautiful automatically...
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05-23-2009, 03:18 PM
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In these pics, Mary may not be the "perfect" princess she is today, but these are from when she was heavily dating frederick, and the transformation was taking place, not really the pre-fred days. I have mentioned b4 that the thread should be called "Pics of Mary b4 she met frederick", b/c since they first met was when the transformation took place. BTW I don't think it's an insult to Mary to show these pictures, but a compliment. My own husband commented when he saw my chunky 80's teenage look, "wow, look how much you have changed, good for you".
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Originally Posted by Lena
E.g. watching the driverīs license pic out of the garbage might not be the nicest thing ethical-wise...but it reminds me, that there is something nice behind this geisha make-up wearing, starving, haughty, Stenevald-ised, starmakercours-ed woman!
I am not those getting, who finde the "new" Mary so much better. Of course she partly wore awful fashion (lycra tops with neonpink lipstick) or just casual wear in the old pics and it seems at times she was a bit too muscular or had some baby fat (keyword: cheeks) left...and in the very first Paparazzi pix, she had a "shocked Bambi" look (kind of like Daniel Westling...for quite some time)...but in some pix, I find her so much more beautiful than today...and that not just, because she was younger.
But oh well...taste is different. For me a healthy look makes you attractive and stylish isnīt beautiful automatically...
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You make me laugh, and ...I agree with you.
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08-25-2009, 11:48 AM
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08-25-2009, 12:43 PM
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I think Mary had a nice drivers liscense picture. She looks more toned these days than when she was just dating Frederick but she's still beautiful.
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08-25-2009, 12:52 PM
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Mary was fatter before living in Denmark and preparing herself to become a princess!
I prefer her now!
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08-28-2009, 05:48 PM
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some prewedding pictures
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08-28-2009, 05:55 PM
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Well, people are changing.
I don't know when she looks better in 2002 or 2003/
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08-28-2009, 06:10 PM
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She looks so so beautiful. Mary has always been stunning to me. 
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08-31-2009, 07:42 AM
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Another set - published May 9th 2004
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08-31-2009, 08:45 AM
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When were thses pictures taken?
Love Mary's outfit, she looks so majestic.
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08-31-2009, 09:56 AM
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Her nose changed a lot.
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08-31-2009, 09:58 AM
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When were thses pictures taken?
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Those pictures were taken during an interview days before her marriage.
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08-31-2009, 06:03 PM
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These photos are beautiful! I've never seen them before. Mary looks very elegant in the photos.
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I like these pics of Mary with her horse.
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