The love story of Frederick of Denmark (55 years old) and Mary Donaldson (52 years old) was that of a fairy tale until six months ago. The Australian has been at Queen Margaret’s son’s side for two decades and is the woman who made him settle down and with whom she took the step of starting a family. They have fought a lot for her partner since they met in a pub during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Mary’s meeting with the then Danish crown prince changed her destiny. Currently, she is the queen consort of Denmark and the mother of four children, one of them a future king. Today, May 14, the royal couple celebrates their most bittersweet anniversary, the first as kings, also on a round date, but also the first after their great scandal.
The marriage of the now kings of Denmark was marked on November 7 when some images of him with another woman came to light. Federico from Denmark went out to dinner, for a walk and spent the night at Genoveva Casanova’s apartment in Madrid and their photos together, which appeared on the cover of Lecturas, went around the world, doing a lot of damage to their relationship. In this scenario, this May 14, 2024, Federico and Mary celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. No more no less, two decades have passed since their romantic ‘I do’. We have spoken with psychologist Lara Ferreiro, an expert in couples therapy, about the state of the marriage six months after his ‘cheating’, how Mary Donaldson would be now and, above all, why they would still be together.
Lara Ferreiro affirms that the phases of a bomb like this in any relationship, regardless of what happened between Federico de Denmark and Genoveva Casanova, are experienced the same as that of infidelity. “Six months ago this relationship between Federico and Genoveva was made public, in the three months following this moment there is always a distance, which fits when Mary went to Australia with the children, she had a terrible time. We have seen these months Federico as an absent king, with few appearances. This is usually a first phase of many reproaches,” the expert begins in her analysis for Lecturas.com.
“After six months there is a very marked change in stage, in any relationship crisis caused by deception or infidelity, this is exactly the moment that Mary is currently experiencing. It is noticeable that they have spoken, they have been able to approach positions and they have entrusted each other to a greater cause, which in this case is the Crown. There could be previous infidelities in this relationship but they were not known, eyes that do not see a heart that does not feel, but in this case it has been six months since the whole world found out that he It’s an assumption ‘unfaithful’ husband or that she has this date with another friend. Just after the sixth month there is a change of stage, of approach,” the expert tells us. To this she adds: “In her last appearance we saw affectionate gestureswho go hand in hand, touch each other and it may be that it really is, because it is a very natural phase, that desire to continue together as a family, as kings and as a couple.
According to the expert, it seems that they have reached some healthy pacts for them as a couple. “We see that they support each other and there are gestures of complicity, it gives the feeling that they have gone through this phase change,” he explains to us. And this, he tells us, will get better if their bet is to stay together. “A year later, when everything is much calmer, when dates like Valentine’s Day, birthdays and other important days pass, there is a new stage and there it may be that the unfaithful person leaves the lover, that the novelty effect wears off, or that they open the door.” relationship, or there are couples who divorce. But in this case, they will move on because they have a much bigger job and I get the feeling that they do. they have private couple agreementswhich may be that each one lives their own life, or that they are going to couples therapy or have opted for an open relationship,” the psychologist and writer tells us.
The psychological state of Mary Donaldson six months after Federico’s photos with Genoveva
“After the shock, the sadness, the denial, the distance, a lot of reflection and vevaluation of all options, Mary Donaldson would already be in phase 4, which is acceptance. It is clear that Mary has accepted what has happened, she has given herself to something greater than the Crown, and they have also been together for 20 years. they have been through the worst“, Lara Ferreiro begins by telling us about how Mary Donaldson would be six months after the Federico and Genoveva bombing.
Federico and Mary in Sweden.
The psychologist explains that after 6 months there is a reunion and that a recovery phase begins. “I think that for the first time they are trying, in their appearances, in their interviews… If you analyze it, you can see that they have made changes, that there is a renewal and recovery of the couple. There are couples who after this phase resume their intimate life a lot, there is a rapprochement and they have carried out a renewal on an internal and external level. The body language of both speaks and there are affectionate gestures and complicity. I see that Mary, through her non-verbal communication, little by little she is finding her place as queen and has committed herself to this,” she says. Thus, Lara Ferreiro ends her analysis with a conviction about the situation of the Danish queen: “Mary has emerged stronger and as a couple they can now be in a good stage. It is a natural phase in all coupleswho want to save their love and stability, or at least their public image.”
