Crown Princess Mary was again at Sydney Airport days after she was seen arriving in Australia for a non-public vacation.
The Australian-born Danish royal was seen strolling by means of the home terminal together with her two youngest kids, 12-year-old twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, with the trio seemingly boarding a flight to her native Tasmania, the place they may spend the festive season together with her household.
Earlier than boarding, 51-year-old Mary was noticed searching the airport newsagency, reportedly selecting up a replica of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s half memoir, half self-help e-book, Be Helpful: Seven Instruments for Life.
Whereas Mary’s finest good friend Amber Petty accompanied the trio and their entourage, the princess’ husband Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, was nowhere to be seen.
The prince is presently attending the local weather convention COP 28 in Dubai along with his mom, Queen Margrethe II. It’s believed he’ll be part of Mary subsequent week with their eldest kids, Prince Christian, 18, and Princess Isabella, 16.
Mary and her household additionally spent Christmas in Tasmania final yr, with the royal sharing a candy picture on Instagram to want followers a cheerful vacation season.
“Merry Christmas from ‘Down Underneath’ – the place we have fun Christmas in Tasmania,” she captioned the picture on the time. “Right here it’s neither frostbite nor simply timber however summer time and heat climate.”
The household’s newest journey comes amid scandalous stories that Prince Frederik is having an affair with Mexican socialite Genoveva Casanova after images of them out and about collectively emerged.
Headlines had been made after the duo reportedly spent the day and evening exploring Madrid final month, the place they wandered across the metropolis’s El Retiro park, loved a Picasso exhibit and went out for dinner.
Whereas a spokesman for the palace advised Danish publication B.T. that they “don’t touch upon rumours of insinuations”, Casanova has hit again on the hypothesis.
“I categorically deny the statements that recommend a romantic relationship between Prince Frederik and me,” she mentioned in an announcement.
“Any assertion of this sort not solely utterly lacks the reality but in addition misrepresents the info in a malicious method.
“That is already within the arms of my legal professionals, who will deal with the pertinent steps to guard my proper to honour, fact and privateness.”
Princess Mary grew up as Mary Donaldson in Tasmania earlier than transferring to Sydney, the place she would meet Prince Frederik on the Slip Inn pub within the metropolis through the 2000 Olympics. On the time, she was working as an account supervisor for an promoting company.
When their romance turned public, she finally moved to Copenhagen in 2002, and the Danish royal household formally introduced their engagement in September 2003. They had been married the next yr.
