So, what do you talk about when you’re one-on-one with a princess? If you’re Avril Francis, you talk about the local language for a start and maybe a little bit about how different timekeeping can be when you trade tropical Queensland for the cooler climes of continental Europe.
The Griffith University postgraduate student was chatting with Princess Mary of Denmark after she was formally presented with the Crown Princess Mary Scholarship at a University of Copenhagen ceremony at the start of May.
“I spoke to her about the language and mainly about how difficult it is to grasp,” Avril says. “We also talked about a 15-minute discrepancy (that exists in Denmark) between when a class should start and when everyone turns up. I have arrived early for class a few times to an empty classroom and thought the class must have been cancelled.
“Other than that we just talked about Denmark and how much
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