Denmark Mary Donaldson: the "t-shirt and shorts" Australian who pocketed Queen Margaret
The Mary Window of Denmark, a princess crowned LGTBI queen, the missed opportunity of Doña Letizia
Mary of Denmark
, the wife of Prince Frederick, heir to the throne, turns 50 today.
The same ones that Queen Letizia will reach in September.
Age is not the only similarity between the two consorts.
Although there are also notable differences, largely marked by the differences in the uses and customs of both monarchies.
Inevitable, for example, it turns out to wonder if the celebrations in Copenhagen and Madrid on the occasion of two such round anniversaries will be anything alike. For now, in Denmark the official portraits of its future queen have already been made public, in which, with a truly majestic countenance, Mary poses with
the Danish ruby tiara
, one of the most important pieces in the Glücksburg jewelry box. Exhibitions have also been inaugurated in different parts of the country. And, yes, the gala dinner at Rosenborg Castle to which numerous royals had been invited has been suspended, as a preventive measure due to the pandemic. Although the celebration will resume later. The intention is to entertain the princess with the same pomp that was displayed in 2018 when Prince Frederick reached his fifties; then there were important splendors, including a banquet in Christiansborg that brought together the best of Götha.
Something similar would make perfect sense in Spain when Doña Letizia's birthday arrives.
And yet no one expects it.
It is enough to remember that when King Felipe turned 50, everything was limited to a
celebration in the strictest privacy
.
Opportunities missed by Zarzuela to give a bit of prominence to the monarchy.
The coming-out of Letizia Ortiz -still not even a princess- took place on May 14, 2004 in the Danish capital.
That day she dazzled with
the unforgettable passion red suit by Lorenzo Caprile
with which she attended the wedding of Federico and Mary Donaldson.
The honeymoon prevented this couple from going a week later, in Madrid, to the wedding of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia.
Donaldson and Ortiz thus entered the royal club at the same time
. Both commoners, both professional and modern. Australian Mary Donaldson had met the Danish heir in Sydney in 2000 while the Olympic Games were being held. The crush arose in a cocktail bar where the prince went with several friends, including Felipe de Borbón. Graduated in Law and Commerce, she had worked, among other positions, as account director of an international advertising agency.
Frederick's parents, Queen Margaret and her husband Henry, were horrified to meet their son's chosen woman.
Exactly the same as in Zarzuela when Don Felipe dropped the bomb that he wanted to marry the presenter of the Newscast.
The two heirs were just as stubborn and threatened to give up everything for love.
And they got away with it.
In the Danish case, yes,
the Government and the Courts had to authorize the marriage
.
In Spain, the ruling class fell silent.
Mary's relationship with the queen was stormy at first, though eventually the consort pocketed her mother-in-law.
Doña Letizia, for her part, went from coldness and indifference with Don Juan Carlos to not speaking to him.
Until today.
Public opinion crushed the Danish woman during her first years as princess
: because of her styling, because of the scant content of her institutional agenda, because of her difficulties in fitting into palatine protocol... Just like if we were talking about Letizia.
But Mary turns 50 as the most popular character in the Danish royal family.
There our Queen can envy her, who, however, in recent years has also seen the support of citizens grow, who
highlight her professionalism and understand her better after having revealed so many scandals
of the dynasty.
Of one and the other, the image of modernity that they have contributed to the institution is especially valued, as well as the commitment acquired with numerous causes that reinforce the soft power of the Crown.
The Dane's sponsorships are closely linked to culture, humanitarian aid programs or health-related issues, including her work through
the WHO Office for Europe
.
The parallelism with Doña Letizia there is also undeniable.
The former wins the game, however, as a standard-bearer for causes that until recently were far removed from any monarchy, such as LGTBI demands.
The Spanish agenda continues to suffer from excessive conservatism, away from too many social movements.
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