This week the palace took an unprecedented step to talk about something completely out of the ordinary – Princess Marie’s breasts.
Danish magazine Her & Nu wrote that Princess Mary’s sister-in-law got a secret boob job back in 2014.
The mag claimed that the 39-year-old mum-of-two sneaked away to Lithuania to get breast enhancement surgery in June last year.
The Royal Palace of Denmark, which generally doesn’t respond to speculation, took the unusual step of releasing a statement to emphatically deny it.
“Her & Nu . . . had a cover reference to an article inside on page 4 and 5, entitled ‘Marie Under The Knife In Lithuania: New Breasts.’ It’s all untrue,” the statement read.
Due the increasing pressure of the Palace’s lawyers Her & Nu have since retracted the story.
BT magazine spoke to Danish historian and royal family expert Hovbakke Sorensen who explained the move from the Palace as “completely unprecedented.”
“I do not think that this has ever happened before,” he added. “The royal family believes that one shouldn’t comment on everything.
Princess Marie in 2011 (L) and earlier this year (R).
A great deal’s written about them. If they got into it, they could get bogged down in an adversarial discussion with both their subjects and the press.”
Despite the unusual statement Hovbakke believed that the Royal family were simply, “drawing a line in the sand.”
“It’s a private and personal matter. It’s so intimate that it’s understandable they’d say, ‘This far and no further’,” he said.
But this story doesn’t end here, Her & Nu still have some questions about Princess Marie’s noticeably larger breasts.
“If she didn’t [get a boob job],” a representative for the magazine said, “there are people who’d like to know what vitamins she takes.”
