Princess Mary ‘more popular’ than Crown Prince Frederik

News.com.au Royal Reporter Bronte Coy says Princess Mary is “more popular” than her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, because of affair rumours that have “dogged him”. According to a survey by Ritzau, Princess Mary is more popular than her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, with 82 per cent of people believing Frederik is suited for the role, while 86 per cent believe Mary will be a good queen. “So the family’s actually been extremely popular for a long time – the outgoing Queen has been extremely popular,” Ms Coy told Sky News Australia host Caroline Di Russo. “She’s seen as extremely down to earth, and people just love her – it’s a very similar sort of situation to what we saw with the late Queen Elizabeth II and Mary and Frederik themselves are really popular – they’re seen to be really connected with the modern issues that people are caring about now. “Mary, for example, is engaged with LGBT rights, reproductive rights and things like that – they poll up in the 80s. “Interestingly, Mary is now more popular than Frederik, and this is where the challenge has been – a lot of royal experts in Denmark have pointed out that that has declined for him a little because of these rumours that have dogged him. “That’s going to be a challenge moving forward.”