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A grey morning in a hundred-room palace north of Copenhagen, and the King of Denmark is in the kitchen getting the toast slightly wrong. He blames the toaster, the way everyone in this family has learned to blame the toaster.

She was an Australian advertising executive in a Sydney pub during the Olympics. He did not tell her who he was. By the time she found out, it was already too late for both of them.

The story of a woman who gave up a country, a language and a name to marry a man she had met by accident, and of the quiet, deliberate work of becoming Danish enough to be loved by a nation that had every reason to be sceptical.