Queen Mary of Denmark offers a tour of Fredensborg Palace garden in rare TV appearance
Queen Mary has offered royal watchers a rare glimpse inside her lavish summer residence in an unexpected TV appearance.
Starring in a special on biodiversity and castle gardens, the Australian-born Danish royal appeared in Søren Vester’s Garden, showing off the tranquil outdoor space at Fredensborg Palace that she helped cultivate.
Ahead of the episode, which aired in Denmark on Wednesday evening (local time), the Danish monarch teased a view of her luscious garden in a set of Instagram photos.
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In another, she showed off her adorable Border Collie walking through shrubbery.
“I never imagined that I would participate in a program about gardens,” Mary confessed in the caption.
She admitted that her garden knowledge is still in its early stages, but her passion was inspired after planting a small wild garden at the palace.
“Even though nature has always been very important in my life, the joy of our wild garden still came to the back of my mind.
“It was a pleasure to show Søren Vester this part of our garden, which is both a small contribution to biodiversity and ‘wildly’ beautiful.”
During the program, Mary shared with viewers what her experience was like growing up amongst Tasmania’s vast bushland, noting its differences to the Danish landscape.
“I spent a lot of time out in the bush, in the forest,” the Danish monarch told Vester.
“Where I lived, there was forest on one side and beach on the other. How lucky can you be. I had it all.
“Tasmania is dramatic, or varied, with rainforest and bush and cliffs and mountains. Denmark is a country with flat expanses and flat landscapes and forests and coastlines and fields.
“And if we talk about forests, then the Danish forest is very exotic to me – it is beautiful, friendly, welcoming and soft.
“The Tasmanian ‘bush’ is hard, harsh, dangerous, dry and sharp, but also beautiful.”
Royal watchers flocked to praise the monarch’s interest in biodiversity.
“You are so amazing on so many levels, thank you for being our queen and keep making a difference,” one wrote in response to Mary’s Instagram post.
“Lovely and important input in the work for more biodiversity,” wrote another.
