biboquinhas said:
well I think picutures can really be deceiving but videos no!!!We can clearle see what we want in videos! And my opinion is that Mary really wants the event to end soon, she was not fun to be there. Her Lady in waiting does look gorgeaus, very beautiful indeed!
The videos lasted ~2 minutes, the visit lasted much longer.
In the first video they show her arrival and her listening to a concert (therefore not much interaction of course).
In the second they concentrate on the children and show Mary's interaction with them.
JP and DR chose what they showed to the public, they obviously cut and therefore manipulated both films.
We cannot see what we want but what the editors want us to see.
I made a course in filmmaking once and they showed us
how you can make two completely different films with different meanings out of the same film material.
So, of course videos/films in general are deceiving.
And they can be interpreted in different ways.
You clearly saw that she had no fun to be there.
I saw a woman who was a little bit tired but interacted very nicely with the children (in the second video).
Neither of us knows for sure what was going on in her mind.
Tinika said:
Mary's LIW is completely stunning in a very natural-looking way (while Mary's look is somewhat manufactured).
I had a completely different feeling.
Mary looked very natural to me at this event
whereas her l-i-w looked somewhat manufactured.
I think Caroline is most noticed whenever she is not wearing a hat.
Therefore I think it's her red hair that catches the eyes and not her face which is quite average and not very expressive.
Mary has a much more exquisite face with lively expressions IMO.
Whenever Caroline is wearing a hat I don't notice her at all.
I don't call that charisma.
But she seems to be a nice lady and they seem to get along well with each other.
That's the most important thing.
Anita said:
Everyone has remarked the great beauty of this woman, although it's Mary who has all people's attention fixed on her .
THAT is, to me, charisma . Mary seems to have charisma to some people (not especially to me
) only because everyone knows she is the Crown Princess of Denmark . If it was the other way around, I truly think noone would notice Mary ...But that's just my opinion .
Everyone?
I don't think Mary is a great beauty but she has an exquisite, unusual face and charisma IMO, crownprincess or not.
And I truely think noone would have noticed Caroline's "great beauty" (which she does not posess IMO)
if it weren't one way of putting Mary down. (I don't call that charisma either.
)
But that's just my opinion.
but then I looked back on the other posts and found the video. After watching it I have to agree with you. She didn't interact very much with the kids. First, the little girl that handed her the flowers was very shy and didn't want to talk with her, then it seemed that the other little kids were to young to actually be aware of who was there waving at them and trying to say hello(IMO). But besides that, she just seemed really uncomfortable, fidgety, anxious to get this over with. That's the impression I got. Maybe she wasn't feeling well, and I'm not refering to the possiblility of her being preganant. 
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