A modern fairytale
It started as a typical Aussie love story – a girl meets a boy in a bar, they fall in love and live happily ever after. But when 28-year-old Mary Donaldson met Fred during a night out at the Slip Inn in Sydney’s Darling Harbour in September 2000, he turned out to be the heir to Europe’s oldest monarchy.
“The first time we met, we shook hands,” Mary, now 49, would later recall to biographer Jens Andersen of the night she met Crown Prince Fredrik. “I didn’t know he was the prince of Denmark. Half an
