You know, when you're a single girl the last place you ever expect to
meet a real, honest to God, prince is at a bar. But it happened.

Copenhagen - For most girls, meeting a prince and living
happily ever after is the stuff of fairy tales. But for Australian
commoner Mary Donaldson, who will marry Danish Crown Prince Frederik on
Friday, the tale has come true. The youngest of four children whose
parents emigrated from Scotland to Australia, Mary met her prince
charming in Sydney. While he may not have swept her off her feet right
away, he wooed her until she agreed to move to his kingdom where she
will one day become queen. The couple were introduced to each other on
September 16, 2000 at a bar during the Olympic Games in Sydney, where
the prince was enjoying the Aussie nightlife with his younger brother
Joachim and Prince Felipe of Spain. "I didn't know who he was at the
start," Donaldson later said, admitting that her first encounter with
Frederik was "not love at first sight". But she found him to be "warm,
loyal, sincere, funny, curious and full of surprises". A strong
believer in fate, Mary said she "never imagined four years ago" that
she would one day become a member of Europe's oldest monarchy whose
origins can be traced back to the 10th century.

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