As soon as the Mountbatten-Windsor clan received the news that Prince Charles had contracted the deadly coronavirus, the Duchess of Cambridge knew what she had to do.
As calm and steady as ever, mum-of-three Kate, 38, and her husband Prince William, accepted a phone call from Her Majesty to advise them that they are now in charge of the monarchy – that they were King and Queen of the Commonwealth, if not by name, then definitely in nature, while she and her husband Prince Philip, 98, bunker down at Windsor, and Charles, 71, convalesces at Balmoral.
And just across the North Sea, a similar scene was unfolding at Copenhagen’s Amalienborg Palace, where Australia’s very own Princess Mary, 48, has accepted the same role as Denmark’s monarch from her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe.
This story is from the April 6, 2020 edition of Woman's Day Australia.
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