BB this week has an article comparing Mary and Queen Ingrid.
Here the two ladies are wearing the same ruby parure:
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Here with Princess Margrethe aged two and Prince Vincent also at two years old.
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The later Frederik IX met his Ingrid when she was 25. While the future Frederik X met his Mary when she was 28.
Here as cover models in BB 75 years apart and with Princess Anne-Marie and Prince Christian 60 years apart.
Mary lost her mother when she was 25, Princess Ingrid her mother when she was ten.
Both had to learn a new language, Danish. (And Queen Ingrid had a harder time as she was Swedish, Denmark's arch enemy and a country we have been at war with about once in every generation since Sweden became a nation until 1814). Queen Ingrid took on Southern Jutland as her main cause, while Mary has involved herself in social issues.
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Here on holiday with the family.
Both have had a steady rise in popularity. (In fact Mary has had a much easier time than Queen Ingrid or rather Crown Princess Ingrid had back in the 1930's! Mary became immensely popular within a year or at most two years. while Queen Ingrid only became really popular or rather tremendously respected during and especially after WWII).
In both cases they transformed their husbands from being somewhat immature men insecure of their role into confident and loving husbands and fathers.
Queen Ingrid was a vital support for Frederik in his youth. Today he has Mary.
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