Mary Donaldson is living 2024 as one of her most complicated years and with the greatest changes in her life. On January 14, she became queen consort of Denmark, and all in the middle of a media revolution caused precisely by her married life.
The dalliances and alleged escapades of her husband, King Frederick X, and the appearance of women like Genoveva Casanova have complicated her role. The queen enjoys great popularity among the Danish people, but in the wake of all these scandals, the queen’s inner circle is increasingly closed. One of her former friends has talked about her and how she is dealing with these worrying moments, revealing how the couple is experiencing this whole situation.
According to this alleged friend of Mary Donaldson, the queen and the king remain in constant tension with each other since the appearance of the controversial photographs of the then crown prince with the Mexican Genoveva Casanova in the streets of Madrid, even more so after It turned out that the prince lacked an escort and that he spent the night at the home of Cayetano Martínez de Irujo’s ex-wife.
“He has done very little to fix it. Making her look ridiculous is deeply worrying,” this friend, supposedly close, tells the Australian magazine Woman’s Day.
As this friend continues, the couple has lived all these months with “amazing ups and downs” and it seems that they cannot get up. “No one could have prepared for this,” the queen’s friend insists. “Mary probably feels completely stuck: she’s the queen now. It’s not like she can just up and leave,” she explains.
We have seen Mary Donaldson remain stoic and firm since the scandal broke, without making any statements about it and fulfilling her official commitments. Only her vacation trip with her youngest children to her native Australia for more days than necessary set off all the alarms, which she put an end to by returning to Denmark.
The consequences continue to affect the couple, six months later. The queen’s attitude remains purely professional and she cannot be blamed; and when it comes to interacting with her husband, she is affectionate and close.
The statements of this former friend, however, are once again taken with a pinch of salt among Danish society. The same publication, in 2017, confirmed that the then princess was forced to cut ties with personalities who did not fit in at court, especially those with strong exposure in the media.
Among those who are still part of that select group, Caroline Fleming, wife of the nephew of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond saga; Sofie Kirk Kristiansen, daughter of Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of Lego; and Amber Petty, her childhood friend from whom the now queen distanced herself after she published a controversial memoir in 2020 in which she told more than necessary about her personal life and how she He met her now husband.
For his part, Federico of Denmark has turned a deaf ear not only to the statements of this alleged friend of his wife, but also to everything that is said about his extramarital life.
The son of Queen Margaret appeared last weekend in another professional commitment, this time alone, in the traditional royal race in Copenhagen, where he demonstrated his sporting skills and ran no less than 16.6 kilometers.
