[ad_1] When the couple were married in Our Lady’s Church, the Copenhagen Cathedral, in 2004, Mary’s father turned up wearing a Scottish kilt. He stressed her Scottish roots in his speech, claiming his own clan had once helped eject the Norse from the Hebrides, off the north-west coast of Scotland. Loading Mary, who was born and educated in Hobart, Tasmania, made her affinity to the land of her parents and grandparents clear through her official…
"Princess Mary, future queen of Denmark, claimed by British newspapers as Scottish"Tag: Mary
[ad_1] Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland in the 1990s. Later, Robinson became the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. In recent years, she’s been chair of “The Elders,” a group founded by Nelson Mandela, with a simple mandate: to share wisdom and experience to help solve the world’s toughest problems. Now Robinson is focused on tackling the climate crisis. She travels the world connecting with young activists about environmental justice. She…
"Ireland’s Mary Robinson says being an ‘Elder’ is about teaching the next generation, but also listening to them"