Dashing couple: Prince Frederik and Princess Mary attending the investiture of new Dutch King Willem- Alexander at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. — EPA
PETALING JAYA: Just eight months after the visit of the Duchess of Cambridge, another elegant princess will set foot here.
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark will make a four-day visit from May 27 to attend an international conference called “Women Deliver”.
She has been invited to join a panel discussion on women issues with former Finnish President Tarja Halonen and UN Development Programme administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark.
“The conference aims to serve as a global platform to ensure that the health and rights of girls and women remain as the top priority on the global population and development agenda,” said the Denmark Foreign Affairs Ministry on its website.
Crown Princess Mary, like Kate Middleton, was also a “commoner” before their fairy-tale marriage.
She married Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark, on May 14, 2004, after meeting him at a Sydney hotel pub four years earlier.
The prince had been on a visit to Australia for the 2000 Olympics.
The princess, during her visit, also aims to promote Danish-Malaysian business relations.
According to the statement, she will visit a school for Myanmar refugee children supported by the UN Refugee Agency here.
She will also meet with victims of gender-based violence at the Women's Institute of Management.
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