Wednesday, October 24, 2007

"Australian marketing executive"

Mary Donaldson was described in many ways during her courtship and engagement to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. She has been incorrectly described as a lawyer because she has a degree in Commerce and Law, which is not the Juris Doctor a proper attorney needs.

Mostly she was called a "marketing executive" which belies her rather crappy career in the field of marketing. She made many, many lateral moves, jumping from one ad agency to another, hardly moving up in the world until that fateful night at the Slip Inn.


She graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1994 with a combined degree in Commerce and Law, as I have mentioned, later qualifying for "professional certificates" in advertising and marketing.

Left - Mary leaving Belle Property.

After graduating, Mary worked for DDB Needham, Mojo Partners, Young and Rubicam, Love, and Belle Property, which is where she was working when "outed" by the Danish press as Frederik's girlfriend in November 2001. That means she had 5 different jobs in 7 years. Hardly impressive as a "career".


In November 2001, Anna Johannesen of Denmark's Billed Bladet outs Mary as Frederik's Australian girlfriend with this photo of a sour-faced Mary.

When she moved to Paris to be closer to Frederik - very important, because Frederik was dating someone in Paris (Bettina Odum) both before and after meeting Mary in Sydney - she taught English at a business school there.

After she forced her way from "booty call" to "girlfriend" and got Frederik to pay for a luxury apartment in Denmark, Mary moved to Copenhagen and "worked" for Microsoft/Navision. I put worked in quotes because she was hardly there, she kept taking days off to hang out with Frederik. Must be nice to have a "job" like that. Of course, it helped that her boss at Navision was Frederik's good friend.

More later.

1 comment:

aryan said...

That's another fave of mine in the fairytale retelling of Meary's life according to the Danish Royal Family. Mary's CV lists her 'jobs', all of which, (once she left Australia), were arranged by boyfriend, and given to her by friends of his, for the purpose of getting Frederik laid on a regular basis. I can imagine the conversation went a little like this: 'Look, uh, I'm screwing this Australian chick, and she's a really good lay, and I'd like to have her close by, so, uh, can you give her a job here in Paris/ Copenhagen? It doesn't have to even be a real job, I'll even give you the money, to pay her. It just has to seem like a real job, to her, otherwise, she'll know I'm just paying her for sex, and she'll feel like, well, the Whore that she is."