The Crown Princess Mary Scholarship 2017

Wednesday, May 3rd

Crown Princess Mary attended the presentation of this year's The Crown Princess Mary Scholarship 2017 which, as usual, took place at Copenhagen University. 

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For the Crown Princess to attend the presentation of the Crown Princess Mary Scholarship 2017 is already old news for most of you. My last week has been quite busy and no time was left to write about her latests whereabouts. But here is what has been missing.

As mentioned Mary was present when the Crown Princess Mary Scholarship were handed over for the 13th time. The scholarship was a gift to the Crown Prince Couple on occasion of their wedding back in 2004 from University of Copenhagen. These scholarships are awarded each year, to two exchange students from the University of Copenhagen's Australian partner universities in connection with students' stay in Denmark. Along with the scholarship is given DKK 10,000. This year the lucky winners are Avril Jane Francis and Thomas Patrick Lynch. Before all this, the Crown Princess was warmly welcomed with flowers, handshakes and wishes by, among others, rector Henrik Wegener and the Ambassador for Australia H.E. Damien Miller. She was in a splendid mood during her visit at the university! The Crown Princess also gave a short speech to congratulate the two students. Here she also announced that a female exchange students has moved in at Frederik VIII's palace, along with the royal family. What an experience!

These annual events I have come to love very much. To me it seems like the royals, especially Mary, really enjoy repeating good events. As with events, she loves reused outfit which is exactly what we saw at the presentation at University of Copenhagen. The weather is getting better and better each week and for sure it is time for us to see Mary wearing something a bit more "summer-chic". And we did! She was wearing her reused Prada blouse and a printed JOSEPH skirt, match with the most incredible blue pumps from Gianvito Rossi (also seen before). As with the skirt, then she wore her beloved grey JOSEPH coat. Keeping everything classy Mary embraced the style by wearing pearl jewellery from Dulong Fine Jewelry and a few diamond rings from Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen. I also see some other golden bracelets but I can't seem to identify them on a long distance. The stunning Quidam clutch matched the rest of her outfit perfectly because of that lovely blue colour. Hair and makeup were magnificent as usual. Think I see blue eyeshadow. Without doubt, a true everyday winner!

Another thing I can't get enough of, is looking back and see what previous has worn. I know many of you have the same joy and therefor have I collected all previous outfit for you to see. These can be found right below. So, tell me do you have an absolute favourite outfit?

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016

Coat: JOSEPH Double Cashmere Oslo Coat

Blouse: Prada Silk Crew Neck Blouse

Skirt: JOSEPH Dean Skirt

Earrings: Dulong Fine Jewelry Hook & Eye Earrings

Bracelet: Dulong Fine Jewelry Anello Pearl Bracelet
Bracelet: Cartier Love Bracelet

Rings: Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen Love Bands

Clutch: Quidam Calfskin Clutch

Shoes: Gianvito Rossi

Visiting 'Værket'

Thursday, April 27th

Crown Princess Mary visited Værket which is a project made in collaboration with Red Cross and the Mary Foundation. The visit took place in Copenhagen. 

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Since 2015 have the Mary Foundation and Red Cross been collaboration on the project Værket. The project aims to remedy loneliness among adults between 30 and 60 years. So it is really all about creating new memories, good experiences and connect people in the local community. Værket is acting in so called "networking groups" that arrange different activities etc. In 2016 Mary met with one of these networking groups in Slagelse, here. On Thursday she met with a networking group at Nørrebro, Copenhagen. During her visit Mary was introduced to a few of their exercises. The reason for her visit is the project Denmark Eat Together which is organized by People's Movement Against Solitude who, by the way, work in collaboration with both the Mary Foundation and Red Cross.

In windy and cold weather the Crown Princess arrived to Nørrebro, where she was kindly welcomed by a flower girls handing over a bouquet to Mary. During her visit Mary took plenty of time speaking with as many as possible. She wasn't in a hurry at all which is what I thing Danes, and everyone else, love so much about her. The Crown Princess always takes time to listen. She was also offered a little something to eat before her visit ended a few hours later. As always, a true pleasure. 

April weather in Denmark changes almost every minute. For this reason it is not the most easy thing to the right outfit. Still, Mary did a pretty good job trying. Not sure I am a huge fan of every single piece, but the combination is exquisite! At the arrival she was wearing what I think could be a brand new bright blue coat. The colour really makes me smile. Underneath Mary has chosen a new white blouse from ba&sh and even new BW trousers from Julie Fagerholt Heartmade. So far I haven't been able to identify these three new pieces. It is with help from Kate I am able to telly you where these two pieces are from. Thanks to all of you who made me aware of the identification! Perfectly matching the rest of the outfit, she wore a pair of navy blue suede pumps. Because lack of pictures I do not know for sure if it is her pumps from Gianvito Rossi or Pura Lopez. Have you seen anything that can help me find the right ones? She embrace the chic and rather casual style by wearing rose quartz earrings from Dulong Fine Jewelry and a pearl bracelet. We also got to see her golden Shamballa Jewels bracelet again. Couple of years ago she was wearing it at almost every attending occasion. Last but not least she, once again, showed us a way to reuse her black Bottega Veneta bag. Just lovely!

Earrings: Dulong Fine Jewelry
Blouse: ba&sh Jagger Top
Trousers: Julie Fagerholt Heartmade Silk Novo Pants

Bracelet: Shamballa Jewels Royal Bracelet

Bag: Bottega Veneta Campana Hobo Bag

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Shoes: Gianvito Rossi Navy Suede Pumps 105 mm

Shoes: Pura Lopez High Heels Navy

A few new things

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Since 2005 Crown Princess Mary has been patron of WHO/Europe. Her committment has given her the change to speak at several sessions of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe throughout the past years. In particular, she has spent a lot of time working to improve girls and women's rights, well-being and health. Back in 2013 the Crown Princess gave a video statement on occasion of the European and World Immunization Week 2013, here. Now she is back with another statement for European and World Immunization Week 2017, here, speaking about the importance of vaccines and how much effort about vaccine has already helped. Take some time and hear what she has to say, I am sure this will make you reconsider a few thing. 

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Soon, on May 11th, the 5th edition of Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2017 will take place in Copenhagen Concert Hall. It is as patron Crown Princess Mary will attend the summit on sustainable fashion. This year she will also participate the plenary on sustainable fashion in macro perspective. Read more about it here. It on this occasion a new photo of the Crown Princess has been published. Actually the same photo has been published in both black and white, here, and in colours, here. 

Exhibition: The Jewellery Box

Back in February the Crown Princess attended the opening of a brand new permanent exhibition in Aarhus, more specifically in Den Gamle By, here. I sure you remember the grand opening of this new exhibition, here. The main reason why tell you all this one more time is because I had the chance myself to visit the exhibition!

But first, a little more about what Den Gamle By is. In English it would go as The Old Town and is a open air museum, in Aarhus, goes all the way back to the beginning of 1900s. I even read that Den Gamle By is the world's first open air museum. The museum have houses going all the way back to 1500s, but also from mid 1800s, all the way till 1970s. By visiting Den Gamle By you get the chance to see for yourself how a home would look like in different ages. Another special thing about this museum, is the fact that all year around, especially during summer and Christmas, employees make the old town alive. The employees are dressed like they would have been on that time, during their jobs -cooking, going to the marked etc. What makes this place very unique and a reason why I love visiting the museum so much is the feeling to go back in time. While you enjoy, learn, hear and see the 21st century is completely shut out. The atmosphere is not to describe. Differently worth a visit if you are every in Denmark.

So, with this short introduction you all know what I am talking about when I tell you more about my visit. About two weeks ago I celebrated easter with a 10 days vacation. On Thursday I visited Den Gamle By along with my mom and dad. I was my ideas. Have a thing for historic places and it has been years since I have visited the open air museum. It was terribly cold and windy but the best day I have had for a long time. You probably enjoy spending time with your family as much as I do. One of the main reasons why I really wanted to visit Den Gamle By was because of the exhibition The Jewellery Box opened by the Crown Princess couple of months ago. And it was indeed magical! The exhibition display around 1,000 individual pieces of jewellery from 1900-200, made by Danish jewellery designers such as Georg Jensen, Thorvald Bindesbøll and Mogens Ballin. Everything from earrings to brooches and bracelets are beautifully exhibited in glass boxes. It has taken a German couple 40 years to make this stunning collection.

The exhibition is stored underground in the 1970s district. I left my parent in the old 70s record store near by to enter the world of jewellery. And it was magnificent! First it hit me how small the room is in real life. But it felt almost like cave. The glass boxes were lighted by hidden lights to make the atmosphere even more... magical. Every spot in the room were dedicated to a specific period. I tried to capture all of it in these photos. It was indeed a very special experience! I wish I could have shared it with all of you, sure you would have love every single moment as much as I did. But this was never really a reality. Instead I hope this post gives you the feeling having visited the place yourself. The exhibition is permanent so maybe Denmark is your next vacation destination?