The Princess Mary claim that's infuriating Aussies: 'Stop the fakery'

Australians have been left shocked and infuriated after discovering Scotland is attempting to claim Crown Princess Mary as their own. It comes as the Tasmanian-born royal is set to become Queen later this month after her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe II, announced her abdication after 52 years on the throne.

Ahead of Mary and her husband Crown Prince Frederik's coronation on January 14, both Australia and Scotland have been proudly claiming the soon-to-be Queen.

Mary's parents immigrated to Tasmania from Scotland before she was born.

"How a bar room romance put a Scot on the throne of Denmark," the UK's The Telegraph wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Meanwhile, The Australian wrote, "All Hail Mary, our Flannie queen living a rom-com dream."

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Aussie Mary fans have slammed the Scottish publications claiming Mary as their own, with one particularly angry X user writing, "@Telegraph You refer to Princess Mary today as A SCOT. She is an Australian-born woman, born in Tasmania, grew up there. SHE IS AUSTRALIAN. NOT SCOTTISH. Get it right and stop the FAKERY. About to be the first Australian-born Queen. Get it right. The new Queen of Denmark."

"Never has the Danish public or media described Crown Princess Mary as Scottish. She is Australian with a capital A, Scottish heritage or not. Sort this pedantic headline out, @thetimes," another user said of a headline that read: "Danish queen's surprise abdication hands torch to son and his Scottish wife."

"Fire whoever called Crown Princess Mary a Scottish women," a third hit back at the same headline.

"British newspapers and British royal commentators who have only just woken up to the existence of Crown Princess Mary: at least read Wikipedia before you write anything," another said. "Mary is not Scottish, although both her parents are. I know it seems, in essence, the same thing, but it's not."

"The UK Daily Telegraph is claiming our Princess Mary as a Scot. Absolutely outrageous. Even if we do it to New Zealanders all the time," someone else joked, with another user responding, "She was raised in Tasmania, Australia's Scotland."

"Crown Princess Mary qualifies to play football for Scotland... both parents are Scottish," one user pointed out.

"The thing about being royal is you often get to be more than one thing," another said. "So Crown Princess Mary is Scottish, Australian and Danish. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is Dutch and Argentinian etc. Prince Philip was Greek, Danish and British but I believe was [especially] proudly Danish."

Speaking on ABC News Breakfast, Scottish-Australian journalist Catriona Stewart, said, "She is as much ours as she is yours, I'm afraid," noting Mary's father John Donaldson wore a kilt during her wedding to Prince Frederik.

Queen Margrethe's abdication

Queen Margrethe II announced in her New Year's speech her intention to leave the throne to Prince Frederik after her 52-year reign.

"I have decided that now is the right time," the Queen, 83, said. "The 14th of January 2024, 52 years after I followed my beloved father, I will step back as the Queen of Denmark. I leave the throne to my son the Crown Prince Frederik."

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Queen Margrethe, who was 31 when she became Queen after the death of her father, said the back surgery she underwent in early 2023 led to "thoughts about the future".

"The surgery naturally gave rise to thinking about the future — whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation," she said.

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