Look, I wish her and Fred all the very best, I really do. And it has been a while since we’ve had a televised royal wedding.
I’m sure becoming the crown princess is a very big deal. But please, all I want to do is switch on the TV and not see another lovey-dovey picture of her and Fred. It’s a big deal for her, her family, and quite possibly for Denmark. But why do we in Australia really have to care?
It has finally put Tasmania on the map? (Remember the furore over the Commonwealth Games pointilism peoples map here in Brissy?)
It proves that all Tasmanwegians don’t have two heads?
Give the sheila a break, she’s done well for herself and we Aussies can chose to watch tonight or not. (Or not, in my case. It’s way late and I really need my beauty sleep.)
Heh, I wondered whether a Dane or an Aussie would be the first to snap in the Pit. FWIW, a Danish journalist wrote a column yesterday describing how he is going to spend the entire day in a hole he’s dug in the backyard, it being the only place where he won’t be inundated with wedding images.
But thanks for sending her our way - we never thought we’d get him hitched, it was becoming a bit of an embarrassment.
Oooh! Oooh! Is it on American TV? I have wondered if they would play one piece of music that was used at the wedding of the Prince of Wales. I think it may actually have been called The Prince of Denmark.
Now remember. No throwing flowers!
I don’t know if it’s on US TV, but it’s certainly on Australian TV - live on SBS and 7, and I think 9 & 10 are both doing highlights packages on Saturday morning. I don’t know what the ABC has planned. Given that’s all the free to air channels, it’s pretty well covered.
They all feel the need to pepper all advertising liberally with promos for the wedding programs. Plus all the news and current affairs stories are running items on it. ANd she’s gracing the front page of the paper. Again.
Look, like I said, it’s all very lovely, and I’ll probably have a bit of a gander, I just want some respite every now and then.
On a side note, my uncles went to Taroonah high school with her (or more specifically one of her big sisters)
Wait a sec! Ol’ Prince Fred is getting married? Why wasn’t I informed? Somebody give me a link, quick!
(But I always thought Joachim was much cuter)
Because it’s big news - the first time I can remember that a Tasmanian has married outside of their own family!
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Wait a sec! Ol’ Prince Fred is getting married? Why wasn’t I informed? Somebody give me a link, quick!
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Go to any Australian news site for more than your fill…
Or the official Danish monarchy sites for the wedding:
The Danish Monarchy site
The crown prince’s site
Yup, he’s finally found a safe place to keep the crown jewels - or something to that effect: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kongehuset/wedding/
…oh yeah. Like you have it hard. Fortunately I have no TV, but it’s on the front-page of all newspapers. And then of course I have two small daughters which have pestered me into taking the day off and go princess spotting.
Oh the other hand, I think the Tasmanian and royals will do just fine together. The royals also always married family.
I walked past the Slip Inn here in Sydney a few minutes ago. It’s the pub where Frederick and Mary met. There’s a wonderful party going on there and I understand that you get free beer if you can show a Danish passport.
For those of us with no clue…what’s the backstory on this?
Who?
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I don’t watch TV anymore, so I’m probably a bit out of the loop, Euro-Monarchy wise…that and it’d probably still pale in comparison in American media to the Michael Jackson fiasco, even if I did still watch. =/
For some reason, I’ve never thought of anyone outside the British royal family as real royalty.
Fuckin’ hell people, you are not nearly irritated enough about this shit. I’d rant, only even that would involve me having to think about how much the whole effin’ palava gives me the gushing dysentery.
Repeat after me: she’s some decent sheila from down south, he’s the son of a deposed hereditary dictator.
GET OFF MY FUCKING NEWSPAPERS AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING THIS DRIVEL, GET THE FUCK OVER IT AND GET A FUCKING LIFE!
(ahhh, i get more and more curmudgeonly every day)
Well I was going to make a joke about at least he’s not following the European monarchical tradition and marrying some overbred… oops! But I see everyone beat me to it. I think it’s all very cute, but then I’m Tasmanian, and also, I’m not in either of the countries afflicted by the news coverage at the moment so I’m not really being overdosed on royal wedding stuff. Mind you, the way the Sydney Morning Herald (online edition) is carrying on, you’d think she was a Sydney girl, (I know, I know, she lived there, that’s close enough) and that there was no other news worth covering right now.
Well, it’s been several years since I knew anything much about the Danish royal family (my family there used to send me clippings about the younger brother prince when he got married and then had a baby, but nothing about Frederik). But there are two boys, Frederik* and Joachim. For a long time, Frederik partied around and dated unsuitable girls–divorced women and extremely minor pop stars, etc. His mother wouldn’t meet them; she’s a very modern queen but was not going to meet anyone ineligible for marriage.
I gather that this Australian Mary and Frederik got together about 3 years ago, and things have been happy since then.
*Danish kings are always named Christian or Frederik, alternately. This F. changed the pattern when his mother named him F instead of C, after her father. She is Magrethe II, there have been two queens and both were named M. This Magrethe is tremendously beloved. The Danish royal family is not as exciting or scandalous as the more famous monarchies.
And for you, Libertarian, you should know that the Danish monarchy (and the flag, too) is the oldest in Europe, going clear back over a thousand years. Remember King Canute, who commanded the waves? He was Danish.
Does this have something to do with some prince that picked up a chick in a bar at the olympics or something?
One of the guys mentioned something in the office earlier, but other then that, I’ve heard squat. Nothing on TV, just the usual Baywatch and Ron Popeil infomercials.
First I’ve heard about it but I love the notion that someday there’ll be a King Fred.
I just learned something new. Thanks, Dangermom.