The stunning setting of the event was the British Museum in central London, where Charles delivered a keynote speech
Princess Mary sends a VERY special thank you to Australia on her 50th birthday - after opening up about her late mum's most valuable piece of advice in rare interviewCrown Princess Mary has shared valuable advice her mum gave her growing upHer mother Henrietta Donaldson died in 1997 when the future queen was 25Mary didn't meet her now husband Prince Frederik until 2000 when she was 28Her mother's words 'you can only be yourself' have stuck with her The mother-of-four will celebrate her 50th birthday on February 5
By MATILDA RUDD and LAURA HOUSE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 12:02 AEDT, 11 February 2022 | UPDATED: 12:10 AEDT, 11 February 2022
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has donated $50,000 to an Australian charity fighting childhood bullying after celebrating her 50th birthday earlier this month.
The mother-of-four heralded a new decade on February 5, taking the time to visit the zoo and release official family portraits as part of the festivities.
Despite living - and celebrating - in Denmark on the other side of the world Princess Mary paid homage to her Australian roots by sending a special gift to The Alannah & Madeline Foundation - which inspired the royal to start an anti-bullying program herself in Europe.
She launched The Mary Foundation in 2007 using money she was gifted to her and Prince Frederik at their wedding in 2004, drawing on The Alannah & Madeline Foundation's Better Buddies program to start her Free of Bullying initiative.
Despite living - and celebrating - in Denmark on the other side of the world Princess Mary paid homage to her Australian roots by sending a special gift to The Alannah & Madeline Foundation
I have often wondered how men like this creep treats their daughters!
Prince Andrew's former massage therapist has made sensational allegations that the under-fire royal was a 'constant sex pest' who quizzed her on her love life while she massaged him in his bedroom. Emma Gruenbaum, 50, has claimed that the Duke of York tried to hug her after massage sessions at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park and always insisted on being naked apart from a towel. After the Queen's second son allegedly asked her if she 'takes it up the a***', the massage therapist claims that she swore at Andrew and furiously told him: 'It's none of your f***ing business'. It comes after the duke's legal team claimed that his accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre 'may suffer from false memories'
Prince Charles 'wants Prince Andrew out of the picture', 'banishing' him from Windsor Castle Prince Charles has effectively "banished" his brother Prince Andrew from Windsor, ordering him to stay "out of the line of sight", according to The Sun.
The publication reports the Prince of Wales has taken action on the matter of his brother as the controversy around his sexual assault case against accuser Virginia Giuffre continues to unfold. Andrew has denied Giuffre's claims on all counts.
Kids! LOL
Moment the Queen gently ticked off a two-year-old Eugenie for stepping on her toes | Daily Mail Online The Queen yelps as two-year-old Eugenie steps on her foot as she helps Beatrice, four, on to a pony being led by ten-year-old Prince William
LOL
GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT: With humble respect to Her Majesty, I think she is wrong about the prospective reign of her son.
The 95-year-old monarch held virtual audiences from Windsor Castle today. She was pictured greeting the Estonian ambassador, who spoke to the monarch via video-link from Buckingham Palace.
JAN MOIR: The Queen told visitors this week: 'As you can see, I can't move.' Well, Ma'am, that is so very true in so very many different ways. What with scandals snowballing and humiliations piling up around her like winter slush, Her Majesty barely has room to manoeuvre betwixt her beleaguered sons and their headline-hitting problems. God save the Queen indeed - from her own family.
Sad situation when you are told you have to marry a person you don't wish to.
'There was a loving tenderness in Margaret's eyes, reflecting my own. Our feelings were unchanged...but incurred a burden so great we had to lay it down': Story of Princess' doomed affair with PETER TOWNSEND is told in newly-republished memoir
PETER TOWNSEND: I first set eyes on the Princess on February 16, 1944, when I found myself in the green-carpeted Regency Room at Buckingham Palace. A few days earlier, I had been summoned by the RAF's Chief of Staff and told I was to be redeployed, as an equerry to the King. I was amazed. I was born in Burma, where my father was a Commissioner, and educated at Haileybury, before joining the RAF. I had no connection with the Royal Family. George VI had apparently decided he wanted staff chosen for their fighting record rather than family or regimental connections. After my introduction, down the corridor came two adorable-looking girls; Princess Elizabeth, then 17, and her sister Margaret, 14. Princess Elizabeth - our future Queen - was the King's pride. Princess Margaret was his joy.
Margaret
The Queen has tested positive for Covid, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The monarch, 95, is understood to be experiencing 'mild cold like symptoms', but is expected to continue with light duties at Windsor over the coming week. She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all appropriate guidelines. It is understood a number of cases have been diagnosed in the Windsor Castle team. It comes just two weeks after the Queen reached her historic Platinum Jubilee, celebrating 70 years on the throne on February 6. Buckingham Palace said in a statement today: 'Buckingham Palace confirm that The Queen has today tested positive for Covid. 'Her Majesty is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week. 'She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines.' The Royal Household has its own royal physicians and the Queen's doctors will be on hand to take care of and monitor the head of state, with Professor Sir Huw Thomas, head of the Medical Household and Physician to the Queen, expected to be in charge.
How the world has change since 1952!
The Queen was 'thunderstruck' on her flight back to London after learning her father King George VI had died while she was in Kenya, the son of a royal flight attendant has revealed.
In those days in Australia a lot of children went to school without wearing socks on their feet, school dinners were not available to us children unless our parents brought it to the school, or we popped out and visited our mothers friend near the school itself.
A decade later we were teenagers or in our 20s and working to make a crust for ourselves; if you were lucky you went to Technical College or to University.
Another year later those that graduated from university or had a profession went sailing overseas on working holidays,.
Those that started their families started to voice their open opinions and let their children have voices of freedom, that perhaps was not the wisest of things to do looking at what the world has changed into these days!
There doesn't seem to be much respect anymore for your elders in Oz that is for sure, not much respect for anything.
Oh for the better days when life was more tranquil and people worked for a living and didn't want government handouts so much.
I often wonder what our forefathers would have said if they say the mess the world is in today>
It must be a chock for HM to see how the world has changed and people don't show the same respect as they once did.
Amanda Platell always felt a deep sisterly bond with Diana because their husbands betrayed them at the same time. Now, in words she thought she'd never write, she explains... 'Why I've finally forgiven Camilla'
Diana (pictured left) and Prince Charles divorced in 1996, while Amanda Platell's (inset on wedding day in 1984) marriage fell apart in 1990 after her husband cheated. The UK-based writer admits it wasn't until recently that she considered her role in the breakdown of her marriage. Looking back now, she realises that she wasn't a very good wife- working six or seven days a week, leaving their tiny South London early each morning, not returning until late. Amanda suggests every embittered ex-wife who, like her, once clung to the Diana banner of the wronged woman should just get over it and embrace Prince Charles and Camilla (pictured right)