Crown Princess Mary Snubs Danish Media, Welcomes Australian

An agitated Crown Princess Mary told Danish media to leave her family alone during a trip to the zoo – but allowed the Australian media to stay.

This is the latest move where the Australian-born Mary seems to be favoring her home country over her adopted homeland.

Speaking in Danish, the Crown Princess told reporters and photographers from two Danish publications to leave the Zoodoo Wildlife Park in Tasmania, where Mary is visiting relatives.

But no similar request was made in English to other media, which captured photographs of Mary, her husband Crown Prince Frederik and their children two-year-old Christian and 16-month-old Isabella in an arranged photo shoot.

“We realized later we missed the chance, of course we are angry,” said Anna Johannesen, who writes for the Danish newspaper Billed Bladet. “We are decent and treat them well so we left, we are not paparazzi.”

A witness said Mary was clearly not happy her family had been followed to the park.

“She was very angry by the sound of her voice,” the witness said. “I got the impression she did not want to be hassled.”

Zoodoo owner Trevor Cuttriss said the royals complained they received more media attention in Tasmania than in Denmark.

The snub could rub many Danes the wrong way. It comes less than a month after Mary noticably favored the Australian team over the Danish during the recent Beijing Olympics.

But then again, it was the Danish media who published nude photos of Prince Christian taken at a beach in July. However, it is unknown if the tabloid, Seg on Hor, which was the sole outlet that published those pictures, was shooed away by Crown Princess Mary.