Great Danes

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik at the abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Mary is quite the style setter, and always wears the most flattering and amazing ball gowns.

A 40th birthday portrait of the Crown Princess.

With all the recent abdications lately, it makes me wonder when Mary and Frederik will be King and Queen of Denmark.

The beautiful as always Mary!

Australian-born Mary once worked for Microsoft.

Mary and Frederik.

Mary at the abdication of Queen Beatrix II.

Mary and Frederik at the abdication of Queen Beatrix II.

Prince Henrik and his wife, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

The Royal Danes

Princess Mary decked out in full regalia.

The Crown Princess most often wears the diamond and ruby parure, once belonging to Queen Ingrid.

Princess Mary and Prince Frederik. Notice that they are both wearing the white enameled elephant orders, which, for some reason or other, are symbols of Denmark.

Mary wearing a simple red dress and elaborate jewels.

Former Danish Princess, the Countess Alexandra. When she divorced Prince Joachim, she lost her royal princess title.

Princess Benedikte, sister to Queen Margrethe II, wearing a diamond kokoshnik tiara.

Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Princess Benedikte wearing a lovely diamond star and pearl spike tiara.

Princess Benedikte and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark at a banquet.

New Princess, Marie, with husband Prince Joachim.

Princess Marie looking stylish in a diamond tiara and fur stole.

The Crown Prince and Prince with Princess Marie and Prince Joachim in the background.

Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik of Denmark.

Queen Margrethe II wearing a diamond heart tiara.

Queen Margrethe at a banquet.

Royal Weddings Revisited

Crown Princess Letizia and Crown Prince Felipe of Spain on their wedding day, 22 May 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark on her wedding day, 14 May 2004 in Copenhagen Cathedral, in Copenhagen.

Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco on their wedding day in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956.

Princess Marie of Denmark, wife of Prince Joachim, on her wedding day, 24 May 2008 in Møgeltønder Church.

Princess Martha Louise of Norway married Norwegian author Ari Behn on 24 May 2002 in Trondheim.

Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik were married on 10 June 1967 at the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen.

Queen Paola of Belgium on her wedding day in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 July 1959.

Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan in her super-fancy wedding dress, on 10 June 1993.

Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI Gustav on their wedding day, 19 June 1976, in Stockholm Cathedral ("Storkyrkan Cathedral") in Stockholm.

The Royal Danish House of Glucksborg

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary in a formal portrait with their two oldest children, Prince Christian and Princess Isabella.

The Crown Prince and Princess with their twins, Josephine and Vincent.

A wedding portrait of Mary and Frederik.

One of my favorite formal shots of the Crown Prince Couple before their marriage. Mary is wearing an elaborate diamond and ruby parure that was worn frequently by Queen Ingrid, Frederik's grandmother.

Wedding stamps of Mary and Frederik.

Mary and Frederik.

A gorgeous formal shot of Mary, wearing the beautiful diamond and ruby parure. I bought this postcard while staying in the Danish city of Roskilde, where the Roskilde Cathedral resides, which is the final resting place of all Danish Kings and Queens. Empress Maria Fedorovna of Russia had been interned there, but after the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin allowed her remains to come to Russia to rest beside her husband, Tsar Alexander III.

Mary and Frederik.

King Christian IX of Denmark with his family. From left, Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII, Princess Thyra, Queen Louise and King Christian, Empress Maria Fedorovna and Tsar Alexander III of Russia, and numerous other family and children floating around. This painting fills a whole wall in the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was quite in awe when I saw if for myself.

A photo I took of the painting of Christian IX and his family. You can  tell how large it is by comparing it to the chairs at the left of the picture. The Christiansborg Palace isn't occupied by the Royal Family, but it is still used for formal banquets, usually for visiting heads of state.

Mary and Frederik with their twins, Princess Josephine and Prince Vincent.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who, after her and Prince Joachim's  (pictured at right)  divorce, does not hold a royal title anymore, and is now known as Countess Alexandra.

Princess Benedikte, sister to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, wearing a crazy-sleeved dress.

 A wedding portrait of French-born Princess Marie, and Prince Joachim, brother of the Crown Prince.

Princess Mary wearing a fur stole and a super awesome white-enameled elephant necklace. I would love to marry into the Danish Royal family just to get to wear some of that elephant jewelry!

Queen Margrethe wearing a diamond and emerald parure, which is housed in the royal treasury at  Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark.

My own picture of the diamond and emerald paure, worn by Queen Margrethe in the above picture.

Queen Margrethe and her sister, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, who lives in exile in London.