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One thing we flawlessly pull off as a nation is starting to care about something purely because an Aussie is involved.

If there’s an Olympic event with an Aussie in it, it doesn’t matter how unpopular the sport is. We are tuning in.

Suppose a dimly lit movie is secretly quite boring, but it has Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman or Cate Blanchett in it. Well, pass us the popcorn!

Keith Urban’s whole pop culture relevancy in Australia is a testament to this rule. He didn’t take off until he broke America, and then we clouted on him and demanded he be a judge on The Voice.

So, when Mary Donaldson met Prince Frederik in 2000, and the two started dating... well, we suddenly became very interested in the Danish Royal Family.

We discovered that Danish weren’t just those delicious parties but also European people who brought us Lego and fairy tales, and we were on board.

The royal couple tied the knot in 2004; we haven’t stopped talking about them since. Honestly, all Mary has to do is climb the Harbour Bridge or look great in a swimsuit and we are all obsessed.

Please make no mistake, though, our loyalties lie only with Mary.

If the Danish dare to upset our Aussie girl, we have a natural “stuff ‘em” approach. When those photos of Frederik hanging out with socialite Genoveva Casanova on a night out in Madrid came out late last year, we weren’t happy!

We were on Mary’s side and mad; I’m sure we all wanted to send her 86 packets of Tim Tams and a cheeky goon bag to drown her sorrows, which was just a knee-jerk reaction.

So imagine the fanfare when it was announced at New Years that Mary is set to become Queen Mary because Frederik’s mum Queen Margrethe announced that she would be stepping down from her position and her son would become King.

In response, we’ve all lost our little minds. An Aussie Queen is music to our ears. We haven’t been this excited since Hugh Jackman was on Oprah.

Someone call Richard Wilkins. We have some real news to cover. Brush his hair and mic him up immediately.

Have we ever cared about the Denmark family before Tasmanian Mary started kissing Frederik? Absolutely not.

We don’t really connect with the whole thing, we don’t have any royals wondering around Australia. Sure, we have Kerri Anne looking regal in Sydney’s eastern suburbs but it isn’t quite the same thing.

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Yet now we have Mary in the royals and she probably understands the importance of Vegemite and the cultural relevance of Shannon Noll. Well, we are sold.

There’s something beautiful about knowing that no matter how glam and royal Mary has become, she probably knows all the lyrics to Shannon Noll’s What About Me.

The excitement surrounding Mary’s impending Queen title just exposes that as long as an Aussie is involved, we are prepared to be behind it.

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