Danish queen's father dies in Australia at 84

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12/03/202608:43

The royal house in Copenhagen says the father of Denmark’s Australian-born Queen Mary, John Donaldson, has died in Tasmania. He was 84. A royal statement Sunday said that Donaldson died in Hobart. It said that his health had been declining over the past few years, and that the queen last visited him at the end of March. Donaldson was born in Scotland and was a professor of applied mathematics. Mary became Denmark’s queen in January 2024 after two decades as crown princess when her husband became the Scandinavian country’s monarch. He was proclaimed King Frederik X following the abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II.