Mary mania is set to sweep Australia.
Tasmania's own Danish queen and husband, King Frederik, will next month embark on a six-day state visit to Australia.
It will be their first and only, and feature an enormous green energy-focused business delegation in tow.
Traditional owners are set to welcome the Danish royal couple at Uluru, where they will watch the sunset with Indigenous elders.
The visit highlight is expected to evoke echoes of the 1983 British royal tour when the late Princess Diana and husband, Charles, now King, visited the iconic rock.
"It's an opportunity for them to see the natural beauty of Australia," Danish Ambassador to Australia Ingrid Dahl-Madsen said, adding that Mary and Frederik have a keen interest in biodiversity.
"It's going to be a pretty packed program."
The tour begins on March 14 and will also take the visiting royals to Canberra, Melbourne and Mary's hometown, Hobart.
"There's such a positive vibe ... around the relationship of our two countries," Dahl-Madsen said.
"The Australian heritage of Queen Mary plays a big part of that."
Close to her heart
Governor-General Sam Mostyn will host the couple in Canberra, where they will visit the federal parliament and be ceremonially welcomed with a 21-gun salute.
Royal reporter for Danish magazine Billed-Bladet, Marianne Singer, has covered multiple state visits and says the tour will garner much attention in Denmark because Mary is "going back to her roots".
"It's something really close to her heart," Singer said.
"I think you can expect her to greet as many people as she can on walkabouts."
Traditionally, such top-tier visits also feature more formal social settings, Singer said.
"You can expect a lot of glamour at the state banquet - tiara and (fancy) dresses," she said.
A second dinner will likely feature Danish cultural entertainment, such as ballet or opera.
"The return dinner is the king and queen's way of saying thank you for the nice welcome," Singer said.
The royal visit is likely to provide a tourism boost for Australia.
British Prince William and Princess Kate's 2014 trip Down Under resulted in a 125 per cent spike in booking enquiries from the UK to the Tourism Australia website.
Tourism boost
The most recently available data shows some 27,000 Danes travelled to Australia in 2024, the same year the Danish royal couple were promoted when former Queen Margrethe II became the first monarch in 900 years to abdicate.
This is their fourth official visit to Australia; the last one was in 2013.
The trip is not the first back home since Mary took on the new role; she slipped into the country in February 2025 and was spotted browsing stalls at Hobart's Salamanca Market.
She also jetted in with her twins, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, to attend her niece's wedding in Tasmania in October 2024.
The tour will likely feature a nod to Australian fashion, with the royal frequently donning Aussie labels Zimmerman and MOSS & SPY.
The royal couple will be accompanied by a delegation of 55 companies.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Climate Minister Lars Aagaard were also scheduled to join the tour.
However, Denmark's election was called on Thursday for March 24, so it's likely they will stay behind to campaign, as two ministers are party leaders.
Green energy focus
Denmark's job-creating, economic-growth-generating green energy transition is a major theme of the trip.
The tiny country of six million is a global leader in offshore wind energy.
More than 88 per cent of its net electricity generation came from renewables in 2024 and it aims to reach 100 per cent by the end of the decade.
"This change we will make in our energy system, decarbonising, it's not something an individual country or region has a monopoly on," Aagaard told a group of Australian reporters in Copenhagen this week.
"We are seeking partners. We are seeking business opportunities," he said.
"I truly believe it is a two-way street. I think we will all be winners if we succeed in building more resilient, more secure decarbonised energy systems."
Danish Industry senior vice president Troels Ranis says Denmark considers Australia an "attractive and reliable" investment destination and his country is keen to share its expertise on balancing renewables in the power grid.
"We know what we are good at," he said.
"We know what we can deliver. We can deliver cheap energy: offshore wind."
Danish energy giant Orsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners hope to get offshore wind projects up and running off the coast of Gippsland in Victoria.
CIP has begun construction on a large battery project to help South Australia's energy storage as the state pushes for 100 per cent net renewable energy by next year.
CIP also hopes to develop the Murchison Green Hydrogen Project near Kalbarri in Western Australia, which would use solar and wind-powered hydrogen and convert it to green ammonia for export. However, the company is waiting for a market to kick off before it makes a final investment decision.
The state visit comes at a time when Australia is trying to nut out a long-awaited free trade deal with the European Union, amid tariff chaos from the Trump administration.
"I very much expect to see concrete deals on collaboration ... coming out of this visit," Ms Dahl-Madsen says.
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