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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

A royal first: Australia celebrates Princess Mary’s historic rise to be queen consort in Denmark

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For the first time, Australians find themselves on the brink of witnessing one of their own, Princess Mary of Denmark, rise to the rank of queen when her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, is proclaimed king of that European nation Sunday.

He will become King Frederik X of Denmark two weeks after his 83-year-old mother, Queen Margrethe II, announced she would be the first Danish royal to abdicate in some 900 years.

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