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quatre1six:

Meeting Mary:

I really felt that she was a soul mate. I was drawn to Mary on all fronts. It was fantastic. The introduction was a little mysterious, but very beautiful. If you had to visualise it, it was like a summer landscape in moonlight. Still water in a pond - evocative - there is a surface, but also depth. Harmony and tranquility and lots of kindness and beauty. It’s like describing a landscape bathed in moonlight. That’s how I remember her from the first meeting, and it’ll get better and better, and more and more beautiful.

His short time in Australia:

Already the next day after far too few hours sleep, Frederik felt that he had to contact Mary again. It was to test whether it was just a fun evening on the town or more than that. I called first. There was something special about that girl, I felt, and she wasn’t unreceptive when I called. Then we met actually several times during the Olympic Games and got to know each other better and better.

The first year of their relationship:

It was extremely fortunate that the press didn’t discover anything and that our love could evolve, which had enough hindrances as it was, not least distance. But the year which then passed was just ours, before we decided that something radical had to happen. This was exciting and a really good proof of whether we wanted to be with each other. There were several months between each time we met. It was hard. It really was hard to live with that need.

We renewed that happiness, pleasure and love and more and more each time. And then we had to separate, and it was awful to travel away from each other again. It really was thrilling. But it was also a good proof of our love, because it dawned on us fast that it was not just a casual romance in connection with the Olympic Games which would wear off.

The proposal:

I had decided that I’d propose to Mary in Rome and had also organised an engagement ring and made sure that I was able to be alone with her. It just worked perfectly. Not just because I wanted to go down on my knee but I did, it’s the right way to do it. And then I just said, ‘You cannot say no, you must not say no, you’ll have to say yes.’ And then she said yes and it was beautiful and happy. We were happy and just the two of us.

-Crown Prince Frederik, excerpts from the book Frederik: Kronprins af Danmark.

The book is based and built on conversations the authors (Gitte Redder and Karin Palshøj) had had with the Crown Prince as well as those closest to him.