Time becomes more precious when you have children.

In the first half of 2002 Mary taught English at a business school in Paris but on moving to Denmark permanently Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark was employed by Microsoft Business Solutions (5 September 2002 – 24 September 2003) near Copenhagen as a project consultant for business development communications and marketing. The Crown Princess gave birth to a baby boy—whom her husband Frederik joked about calling Elvis as the "King of Rock and Roll" had the same birthday—at 10:30 am local time (weight 2. 1 million were collected in Denmark and Greenland and donated to Frederik and Mary as a wedding gift in 2004.

Mary Crown Princess of Denmark Countess of Monpezat RE (Mary Elizabeth; née Donaldson; born 5 February 1972 in Hobart Australia) is the wife of Frederik Crown Prince of Denmark. Their official engagement in 2003 and their marriage the following year were the subject of extensive attention from Australian and European news media which portrayed the marriage as a modern "fairytale" romance between a prince and a commoner. Frederik is the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark which means that at the time Frederik inherits the throne Mary will automatically assume the feminine form of his title and rank becoming Queen consort of Denmark.