everythingroyalty:HAPPY BIRTHDAY CROWN PRINCESS MARY OF DENMARK (5 February 1972) ✨On 5 February 197
everythingroyalty:HAPPY BIRTHDAY CROWN PRINCESS MARY OF DENMARK (5 February 1972) ✨On 5 February 1972, Mary Elizabeth Donaldson was born as the fourth and youngest child of Henrietta (née Clark Horne) and John Dalgliesh Donaldson in Hobart on the Australian island Tasmania. Both of her parents were Scottish and she was named for her paternal grandmother (top right, second row) Mary Elizabeth Dalgliesh. Henrietta Donaldson died on 20 November 1997 from complications six weeks after having had cardiac surgery.Mary graduated from the University of Tasmania with a with a combined Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1995, working primarily in advertisement until her engagement in 2003. On 14 May 2004, she married the eldest son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik, in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark, with whom she has four children.Over the span of her almost 18 years as a member of the Danish royal family, Crown Princess Mary has been dubbed “an almost activistic royal” for dedication to the vulnerable groups of society and her insistence on using her platform to raise awareness subjects such as social justice, women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights. She serves as patron of the UNFPA and WHO among numerous patronages.She established her own foundation, Mary Fonden, in 2007 with the aim to fight social isolation based on the belief that everyone has the right to belong. Her work with the foundation earned her a Bambi Award in 2014. She became pioneering in her work with LGBTI+ rights when she agreed to be the patron of WorldPride 2021 – making her the first ever royal to serve as patron of a major LGBTI+ event.On 2 October 2019, Mary was appointed rigsforstander, a functioning regent when the monarch or heir is out of the country. After having sworn on the Danish constitution, she became the first ever member of the Danish royal family not born into royalty to assume the position of a rigsforstander. -- source link