Crown Princess Mary, Current Events Part 13: August 2016 - May 2018


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Again an unofficial event for Crown Princess Mary:

"Yesterday, HRH The Crown Princess visited Kræftværket at Rigshospitalet.
Kræftværket, which is a meeting place for 15-29 year-old cancer patients, offers age-appropriate joint activities and the opportunity to be with people in the same age group."

Pictures:
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The DRF's Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/detdanskekongehus/posts/587391964932722

Mary also visited them last year as well, on 6th December.
 
Summary of article in Billed Bladet #49, 2017.
Written by Henrik Salling - for once. He usually cover J&M.

Together with the tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, Mary went to a sports-hall in Copenhagen, where they met a number of children who have been placed in foster care. Here a tennis-event had been organized by the charity Børnehjælpsdagen, for which Mary is patron.
The children got the opportunity to meet their big idol, Wozniacki, and play a few balls with her.

Mary has met Wozniacki a number of times before, mainly through her husband who at least used to be a keen tennis player.
Wozniacki has just been engaged to a 206 centimeter basketball player, David Lee, who towered over the two ladies.
Mary congratulated the happy couple and said afterwards about Wozniacki: "The children will have a very big experience with them in their baggage. That gives them more self confidence and precisely this event help getting some children to start playing tennis. Caroline is after all a world star (ranking 3th world wide). To be allowed to hit a few balls with her is big".

See for yourselves here: BB #49, 2017
 
Summary of article in Billed Bladet #50, 2017.
Written by the esteemed Ulrik Ulriksen.

Recently Mary took part in a gala-event celebrating Finlands 100th anniversary for its independence.
That took place in Moltke's Mansion, literally around the corner from Amalienborg.

The General Consul for Finland, the Danish businessman Fritz Schur was host and as such also escorted Mary from the car.
The two know each other very well. Fritz Schur handles the finances and investments of certainly the Regent Couple, perhaps also M&F.
There were in general lots of familiar faces around. Present and former people from the court, politicians and diplomats.

After a lavish dinner - and high-culture entertainment, it was time to dance les lanciers. The gala-party went on to 01.00.
This was one of the very last events for Mary before going to Australia.

See for yourselves and enjoy a close-up of Mary here:
BB #50, 2017
 
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Crown Princess Mary had a couple of events/meetings in Strasbourg today, January 23.

Her day started with a speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, before meeting with the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, attending a concert of the Danish Radio Girls Choir and participating in a lunch with the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly as host.


** gettyimages gallery ** rex gallery ** kongehuset.dk video **


** kongehuset.dk gallery: H.K.H. Kronprinsessen besøger Europarådet i Strasbourg **


** BB: Kronprinsesse Mary satte gang i helt speciel dansk dag i Frankrig ** translation **


** BB: Se video: Glad kronprinsesse Mary efter stor oplevelse ** translation **



And here are some more photos from yesterday evening:


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Today Mary presents the award of the Women's Board Award 2018.
Women's Board Award was first awarded in Denmark in 2014 and the purpose of the prize is to create greater diversity in the top of Danish business and support the process of increasing the proportion of women in Danish boards.

http://kongehuset.dk/nyheder/hkh-kronprinsessen-overrakte-womens-board-award

https://www.business.dk/business-kvinder/topchef-for-stort-amerikansk-selskab-er-aarets-danske
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Certainly a very worthy issue and I can only hope there won’t be a need for prizes such as this before too long, at least in countries like Denmark.
 
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Today, January 29, Crown Princess Mary attended a meeting with a number of UN organizations on the occasion of visits by the Australian Secretary of International Development and the Pacific. The meeting took place at the UN City of Copenhagen:


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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #04, 2018.
Written by our Strassbourg correspondent, Ulrik Ulriksen.

As you know Mary went to Strassbourg with a Danish delegation in order to address the European Council.
Mary's agenda was about gender equality for women and girls worldwide, not to mention their basic rights.
At the same time the Danish government is currently advocating an overhaul of the European Human Rights Conventions. - The interpretations of these conventions have on many occasions prevented expelling foreign criminals or undesired asylum seekers - to the considerable frustrations of politicians and well as the general public. Such proposals would have been next to unthinkable fifteen years ago, today there is an ever growing public demand for it in many if not most European countries. (Otherwise one can fear the brown-shirts will take over and they don't care much about human rights...)
The reason for that, and as such also for Mary addressing the European Council is because Denmark currently holds the chairmanship of the council.

But back to Mary, she started the trip by visiting the Danish ambassador in his private residence. Present was also the permanent Danish representative of the European Council.
Actually Mary's visit was supposed to be low key, so no flowergirl was ready, but - Two Swedish girls (probably daughters of diplomats) had heard about Mary coming and had taken up position outside the danish ambassadors residence. Six year old Josefin and ten year old Johanna. "Thank you very much for the flowers", said Mary. And upon learning that the youngest name is Josefin, Mary told her that her own youngest daughter is named Josephine.

Then it was time for Mary's speech at the first session of the European Council in 2018 and marking the Danish chairmanship until May 2018.
On such occasions it custom to lay visions and ideas which the country that holds the chairmanship wish the council to address and prefarably start doing something about.

Mary gave a 20 minutes speech in which she said: "Actually it's the first time I'm in Strassbourg and it's definitely the first time I give a speech in the European Council.
A well educated child self confident child which is appreciated and a respected member of his of her community is an important player, who can take an active part in a democratic society and be a guardian and champion of the human rights".

After Mary's speech the Italian President of the European Council's Parlamentary Assembly, Michele Nicoletti, praised especially Mary and her work with among other things the Mary Foundation to the sky in his return speech. (That is of course to be expected but Michele Nicoletti went well above what is polite and diplomatic).

See for yourselves here: BB #04, 2018
 
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Crown Princess Mary attended a dinner in connection with the opening of Copenhagen Fashion Week at Copenhagen's City Hall today, January 30. The following gallery is mixed with photos of her attending the Designers' Nest Award, see our extra thread.


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This is interesting!

The castle, or rather fortress, Hammerhus was build in the 1200's as a very important strategic military installation.
By that time Denmark was emerging as the strongest power in the Baltic region, in very steep competition with the Hanseatic League, against which this fortress was also directed.
Denmark was in undisputed control of the seaways to and from the Baltic, and after having gained control of Sweden and the very wealthy island of Gotland and setting up colonies in Estonia, there was a need for a fortress smack in the middle of the Baltic, and that's why Hammershus was build.
To the south the Teutonic Order, which were very much on friendly footing with Denmark, was beginning to establish their own state in what is now northern Poland and the Baltic states, so they very much appreciated having an allied fortress covering their ports from attacks from the sea. The Teutonic Order didn't run around killing Poles and Balts all the time, even though it was admittedly a favorite pastime hobby of theirs... It was also very much about trade.
Money makes the world go around, also in regards to religious crusades.

Hammershus has been a fortress, it saw (successful) action against the Swedes as late as 1645.
It has also been a prison, a labor camp actually. Like in most European countries prisons where criminals served a determined time is a relatively new thing. Beforehand criminals were usually imprisoned until they were flogged, executed or put to use in other ways. In comes Hammershus. Here criminals were put to use in the quarries on Bornholm. That was hard work, with a considerable mortality rate!

Today the fortress is a ruin, yet it is still one of the absolute main attractions on the island of Bornholm, so no wonder the locals are delighted!

Ironically it's actually cheaper for German and Swedes (and now also Poles) to visit Bornholm, than it is for Danes in the rest of DK. Bornholm is a bit out of the way.

Hammerhus. The word "hus" today means house. But in medieval times "hus" means a large building made from stone, that is not a barn or a church or an abbey. And that included castles. So if you look at a map of DK, and see a name ending in "hus" it's almost certain it started as a medieval castle.
The word "borg" which comes from the German "Burg" that also means castle, was not put into use in DK until several centuries later. So if you look at the map of DK again, and see names ending in "borg", it almost certainly stated as a late medieval castle.

Mary was accompanied by the Minister for the Environment and Foodstuff, Esben Lunde Larsen. - He is without a doubt in the top three of the most... I won't say idiotic... ministers in the current government. But I safely say that there are single-celled organisms living at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in Pacific who will comprehend E=MC2 way before he does!
 
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #13, 2018.
Written by our woman on the island of Bornholm, Marianne Singer.

Mary went over to Bornholm on an otherwise chilly day to inaugurate the new visitors center at the ruins of the fortress Hammershus.
Hammershus is the largest fortress in Northern Europe. (The even larger Teutonic castles in the same style and same period are located mainly in present day Poland and Lithuania.)
The Baltic castles from 12-1400's were predominantly made from red bricks, rather than rocks or chiseled stones as was common in most of the rest of Europe. - The Russian castles were unsurprisingly very much made from timber.
It's one of the absolute main attractions on Bornholm and the current interest, indeed fascination for medieval times, it's hoped that a modern visitors center will attract even more tourists, backed up by reenactors who tend to flock to historical places.

When you look at the scans (located in the general DRF news thread) notice the "Dannebrog" in one of the photos in the D-scan or the article.
Dannebrog fell from the sky in 1219 and Hammerhus was build during the 1200's. The flag you see is basically a copy of the very first Dannebrog. - Which is suspiciously looking like a Hospitaller flag... You know, the knights order that at the time had their HQ on Rhodos and later on Malta.
And it very likely was.
Because Dannebrog fell from the sky during a battle at a crusade in Estonia and the peculiar thing about the crusades in the Baltics is that apart from the locals, mainly a Danish army, supported by Swedes and not least the two crusader knights orders the Teutonic Knights and the Sword Bretheren, who had a permanent present in the Baltic, the majority of the crusader armies consisted of "crusader-tourists".
The local forces were relatively limited in regards to manpower and the garrisoned the castles and constituted the core of the crusading armies during the campaign season which, in contrast to almost anywhere else, took place during the winter.
The terrain in northern Poland and the Baltic countries was densely forested with hardly any roads at all, so all transport depended on the rivers and lakes. And the best time to move an army on a river or a lake is when it's frozen, I.e. in the winter months. That means the vast majority of castles and outposts and colonies were located along the rivers, protecting communication and supply lines.
In the 1200's the Poles/Prussians were heathens and certainly in the Baltic countries with a very advanced culture who were perfectly able to build their own copies of the latest brick-castles and with large cities, they were all formidable opponents!
Now, the Poles and Balts weren't that adverse to Christianity they just objected to be force-Christened - and made serfs at the same time... So they fought as hard as they could against the annual crusader campaigns.
Because most years, towards the late autumn, the crusaders mobilized to be ready for the winter campaign.
They were reinforced by thousands of volunteers from mainly present day Germany but certainly also Britain and France, even Spain! - That was very convenient, because it's an awful long way from say Nottingham or Hamburg to Palestine! But the Baltics, that was just a few weeks away by ship and fairly safe too and it counted as a crusade, so you earned brownie points in regards to God, got to spend a couple of months with old friends, killing and fighting in a handful of skirmishes and perhaps even a battle. And all that during winter where nothing else happened, it simply couldn't be better!
And if you died you went straight to Heaven...

And inbetween this very mixed group were the occasional vistors from fellow crusader orders, like the Templars and Hospitallers - who brought along their own banners. - Hence why Dannebrog fell from the sky on what must have been a windy day during a battle in Estonia on the 15th June 1219.
 
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