Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has broken from royal protocol during a visit to Bangladesh, filming a rare selfie-style video from her travels.
It’s exceedingly rare for royals – British, Danish or otherwise – to pose for selfies, let alone capture videos of themselves on their iPhones, but that’s exactly what the 50-year-old did to spread an important message.
Dressed in a white and navy patterned frock, with heavy pearl earrings and a delicate gold necklace, Mary looked totally at ease in the clip shared to the Danish royal family’s Instagram.
Crown Princess Mary appeared in a rare selfie-style video.
(Image: Instagram)Speaking in fluent Danish, the Australian-born royal revealed she’s in Bangladesh to further action around climate change and environmentalism, causes close to her heart.
“As one of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries, Bangladesh is the place on the planet where, overall, most people are threatened by climate change,” read the video’s caption, which was originally written in Danish.
“Nature-based solutions and biodiversity are therefore the focal point in the next few days, when Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess travels around the populous country.”
Mary will be travelling with Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Flemming Møller Mortensen and has already met with local officials, including Her Excellence Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The Danish royal met with Her Excellence Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
(Image: Instagram/Jesper Sunesen)During the landmark meeting, the two powerhouse women signed a new cooperation agreement between their two nations with a focus on green and sustainable development in Bangladesh, with Denmark’s aid.
Mary embodied smart casual chic on her first day in Bangladesh in a patterned midi dress from Belulah London that retails for $1,500.
She kept her accessories simple, donning a set of Dulong Fine Jewellery pearl earrings she’s worn several times before stepping into her favourite nude Prada pumps.
It was the same outfit she wore in her selfie-style video, where her effortless Danish impressed royal fans – but Mary’s own children have revealed she still struggles with the language sometimes.
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“She has an Australian accent, so there are some words she says a bit funny,” Princess Isabella, 15, said in a Danish documentary honouring Mary’s 50th birthday in 2021.
Prince Christian, 16, added: “Sometimes, if she wants to say ‘put the dog in its basket’, it always turns into, ‘the dog lies in its hook’.”
They and their younger siblings, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, admitted they often tease their mother for her lingering Australian accent but it’s all in good fun.
In the same documentary, Christian revealed that Mary always tells her four children about her travels when she returns home from a royal trip, letting them in on “what she’s experienced, what she’s done”.
The teen revealed: “It also gives us four an insight into how good we really have it here in Denmark.”
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