A “fairytale kiss supplied an antidote to our occasions”. The “final fairytale ending”. Australia’s European correspondents hauled their sacks of florid cliches to Copenhagen’s Christiansborg Palace to look at the lady previously often known as Mary Donaldson grow to be queen of Denmark.
One wonders if The Australian‘s Jacquelin Magnay and the 9 papers’ Rob Harris had been struck by the coincidences of their protection. I imply, what are the possibilities that each writers could be put in thoughts of Danish fairytale creator Hans Christian Andersen? That each could be struck by the magic of Copenhagen’s “cobbled streets”? Harris added a reference to Scandi-noir favorite Borgen to finish the record of issues that come up whenever you google “Denmark”. (Presumably there was no solution to work in a reference to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich or pioneering existentialist Søren Kierkegaard? Posh and Becks conceived their first son Brooklyn in Denmark — is there something in that?)
Harris casts the occasion as “an antidote, maybe, to months of horror headlines” that we’d permit ourselves to be swept up in, “if just for a second”. He’s filed six consecutive items on Queen Mary within the final week, together with the perception garnered from an previous interview that Mary doesn’t permit telephones on the desk (for those who suppose I’m choosing out essentially the most mundane element of the piece to be a jerk, it’s actually the headline).
However Harris and 9 are an image of restraint in comparison with the Oz: “Right here was the brand new royal couple, the primary Australian-born queen, beaming and delightful: providing an ideal wave, embraced by her husband and shortly joined by her son, 18-year-old Christian, now the inheritor and new crown prince, and the remainder of the household”.
The standards that Magnay makes use of to separate a “excellent” wave from a failed one, alas, isn’t defined, however for the uninitiated, it entails shifting one’s hand backward and forward in a gesture of greeting. From the sounds of issues, Mary nailed it.
We additionally study that “the couple’s stipend of $416,000 a month from the Danish authorities will enhance considerably”, which is sweet to listen to. To her credit score, Magnay doesn’t go together with the numerous shops that insist on referring to her as “our Mary” (the brand new queen renounced her Australian citizenship a long time in the past).
In the meantime, over on the ABC, take a look at this really unforgivable little bit of clickbait: “Denmark’s King Frederik wished a low-key ascension. However one factor he noticed introduced him to tears.”
Spoiler: it was the crowds. Actually the crowds gathered to rejoice his ascension to the throne.
Frankly, the Tourism Tasmania board comes away with essentially the most dignified factor within the papers at the moment, with this advert within the 9 papers:
