Excerpts from interview in Billed Bladet #22, 2010.
Vi er to lykkelige nomader - We are two happy nomads.
Written by Anna Johannesen.
Who went to France, where John Donaldson and Susan Moody lives.
John will not discuss the DRF, except stating: "I couldn't have had a better son-in-law (svigersøn) than Frederik".
JD: "...but we haven't been in Denmark together since Frederik turned 40 and that is now two years ago. We are also very excited to see the new mansion with all the magnificent pieces of art (Amalienborg). We've seen some of it on the Net, but that's not quite the same".
SM: "John loves discounts, so one of the things I was very careful about in Denmark was if he suddenly spotted a box with shoes on Strøget (the main pedestrian street in Copenhagen) and then began to look at the content. Mary's father! Oh God. That would be so terrible. We don't know when we are being photographed and for that reason I've also gone in a big arch around boxes with cheap bras in purple and green colors".
Q: Are you always recogniced in Denmark?
JD: "Yes, always, but Susan is much more aware of that than me. Occasionally I see someone turning around, but that doesn't bother me, because people are sweet and kind".
SM: "Yes, certainly, but I'm a very shy/modest person and I don't like it. When we were in Peterhof, the summer residence of the Russians tzars in Skt. Petersburg an entire party of Danes came rushing and said: - Surely you are the Donaldsons, right? - In Paris we are also recogniced and just before leaving tasmania a Danish couple approached John in a supermarket in Hobart and asked if he wasn't Mary's dad. I have the impression that to some people meeting us is about the highpoint of the holiday".
She laughs and adds how buses with tourists stop beneath the balcony in Hobart to get a glimpse of her and John.
SM: "Sometimes we just sit in a pyjamas or morning-robe and enjoy our morning coffee, while people are milling out from a bus. Then I rush inside while John wawes - sort of royalty-like, you know".
JD: "Sure I don't. I just keep reading the paper".