Queen Mary to make first foreign visit without husband

Queen Mary is preparing to travel abroad without her husband for an important visit focusing on women’s rights and the environment.
The Queen will be in Brazil next week where she will tour Manaus and Brasilia, the Danish Royal Household has announced.
King Frederik will not join the Queen on the visit.
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Queen Mary will be in Brazil from October 2 – 5 with sustainability, biodiversity and climate on the agenda.
Her Majesty will visit the Amazon rainforest and its river systems as well as the Brazilian savannah, the Cerrado.
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In her role as patron of the United Nations Environmental Programme, the Queen will attend an event focused on biodiversity and conservation.
She is also due to meet with female leaders and representatives from the United Nations Population Fund, to discuss equality and the fight against gender-based violence in Brazil, which has been a key focus of Queen Mary’s royal work.
Mary was last in Brazil for the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Mary’s visit to the South American country is her second tour abroad without King Frederik since the change of throne on January 14.
Two weeks after the proclamation, Mary was in Cologne, Germany, to attend the European Men’s Handball Championship between Denmark and France for her first solo trip abroad as Queen.
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The King and Queen will next travel to Germany for their first state visit since Queen Margrethe II’s abdication, on October 21 and 22.
The tour will follow state visits to Norway and Sweden earlier this year, and the summer cruises to Greenland and various Danish cities on board the royal yacht Dannebrog.
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At the weekend, Queen Mary acted as regent of Denmark for the first time since the change of throne.
Although Mary has been able to do so since 2019, and she has on many occasions, this marked the first time she has formally governed Denmark in her role as Queen Consort.
The 52-year-old took on the role as her husband, King Frederik, was out of the country, Crown Prince Christian is in Africa and Queen Margrethe was unwell following a fall at Fredensborg Palace last week.
The 84-year-old was taken to the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen as a precaution where doctors discovered the queen had damaged vertebrae in her neck and suffered a fracture in her left hand.
On Monday, Queen Mary was asked about her mother-in-law’s condition while attending the National Conference for Health Care Nurses, in partnership with the Mary Foundation, at the Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre.
“Under the circumstances, she is doing very well,” Queen Mary told Danish magazine Billed Bladet.
“I have had the opportunity to visit her a few times since she came home.”
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