The Australian Women's Weekly

Becoming Royal

Tassie girl

Mary Donaldson was born in Hobart, the youngest of four with two sisters and a brother, and will always be hailed as the girl from Tassie who became the world’s first Australian-born queen. But that carefree, empowering childhood is probably what prepared her best for her royal future.

Her Scottish immigrant parents – father John a maths professor and mother Henrietta the

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