Australia says it is sorry for allowing Crown Princess Mary of Denmark to be filmed while she visited the Australian delegation in the Olympic Village in Beijing on Monday. The Village forbids any sort of filming. 
Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates said the Danes maintained the royal visit was to be private.
“She certainly visited us,” Coates said.
“It seems there were concerns raised by the chef de mission of the Danish team, who accompanied her, that it was a condition of that visit that it be private and there be no filming within the residential area.
“We certainly weren’t aware of that condition and if that was the condition, then we are sorry that we didn’t comply with it.
“Neither her Royal Highness or Prince Frederick themselves expressed any concerns to me at the time – the chef de mission did and we asked the television crew just to back off.”
Coates went on to explain that Mary and her husband, Crown Prince Frederick did meet with the Danish athletes, before moving on to the Australian team. It was then they were filmed celebrating a birthday for one of the Aussie athletes.
It was video of the Crown Princess – who is Australian born – that sparked controversy with the Australian press which believed Mary was favoring her homeland over her adopted country.
However, the Crown Princess told Australian media she would support the Danish team all the way, even when they were competing against the Australians.
But at the same time, other reports say Mary would support Australia – only if they are not going against Denmark
put on a pair of shorts in the immense Chinese heat. The Princess Royal was once an Olympian herself, competing in the equestrian in the 1976 Montreal Games. Her daugher, Zara Philips was supposed to follow in her mother’s footsteps, but her horse was injured right before the Games.
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