Mary was seen dropping off Christian (4,5) and Isabella (3,5) at their kindergarden/nursery school in Fredensborg. It was the start of the new school year.
Mary wore a new blouse by Hugo Boss.
Mary was pregnant, expecting twins. The news had been shared with the public a few days earlier.
For more than a week Queen Margrethe II's upcoming 70th birthday was celebrated with a large number of festive events in Denmark, culminating in a various galas. Mary was at the very start of her third pregnancy, expecting twins. The news hadn't been made public yet.
8 April 2010
At 11:00 queen Margrethe, prince Henrik and the crown prince couple were at the Amalienborg Museum, housed at Christian VIIIs Palae, to open the exhibition "Margrethe II" that retraced Margrethe's life through paintings and other artefacts.
In the evening both couples were in each other's company again at Fredensborg Palace where they greeted the crowd of locals who had come to sing to them at the end of the traditional torch light walk, celebrating the queen taking up her annual residence at Fredensborg Slot.
Mary wore a new jacket by Joseph.
Around this time Mary's third pregnancy started. At this stage it was still very private, and the couple possibly wasn't aware yet they would be having twins.
A day before leaving on an official trip to sunny Thailand, crown princess Mary was seen on the Fredensborg grounds, playing with Christian in the snow while walking Ziggy.
Around noon crown prince Frederik and crown princess Mary made a private visit to the company Grundfos (global market leader in pump manufacturing) in Bjerringbro in the morning.
After a 15 minute tour, they went for lunch at Ormstrup Manor, owned by their millionaire Grundfos-host, Niels Due Jensen.
In the afternoon Mary changed into shorts and a new Marc Jacobs top to get an ice cream with Christian, countess Marina av Rosenborg and Amber Petty.
Later photos of a house tour at Amber Petty's apartment were published that show a news article of this day on her fridge... Among many other private and official photos of Mary and her family.
At 10:00 crown princess Mary and her lady-in-waiting, Tanja Doky visited "Granbohus" in Fredensborg.
This holiday and leisure centre for children with a disability celebrated its 50 years of existence.
In the afternoon, at 15:00, Mary had another activity on the agenda: the handing out of the "Crown princess Mary Scholarship" at Copenhagen University.
She was still wearing a bracelet that had been given to her by one of the children at Granbohus.
The scholarship went to Kylie Wilson and Kate Griffiths, who were allowed to study for six months at Copenhagen University.
In her speech Mary said: "Given we have grown up in Australia and therefore perhaps share many of the same values and outlooks on life, I am almost certain that you are loving your time here and have very quickly become attached to the Danish way of life. As I immediately did. It is always interesting to hear from other Australians their thoughts on living and studying in Denmark. What they like and don’t like. What the similarities/differences are between the two countries. And what they have learnt about themselves or their own culture. Often when I have spoken with earlier Scholarship recipients we have discovered that we share similar observations."
