The women who have worn the crown: their lives, their loves, their stories. England and elsewhere, princesses sometimes too with dashes of all kinds of royal.
The thing about royals having their own social media is that they get to control the narrative. Yes, you have to be on it and make sure the story you're telling is worth hearing and that can be hard. But it also provides open goals and if you're smart, like Queen Mary of Denmark, you take them. Hence Mary's Disney Princess phase.
Queen Mary's gone carefree and so have I. Usually I look for a smart headline for a piece I want to write but seeing Mary kick off her shoes and run through the sand while on an actual royal engagement means it's time for a rule change. The title says it all. I just love this.
Queen Mary of Denmark has won round two of her summer battle against the wasps. She was greeted by another insect as she began her royal tour and this time, she won.
She was the first princess in the direct line of succession to the Danish throne for decades and now, as she turns 18, she gets a tiara of her own. As Princess Isabella of Denmark reaches this milestone birthday, she's been given a gem that links her to two queens and a very famous Crown Princess. Quite in keeping with her own place in modern royal history.