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Mary’s tears over Fred’s first love

Claims in a sensational new tell-all book are playing on jealous Mary’s deepest fears.

A distraught Princess Mary has compared herself to Princess Diana — complaining that her marriage to Prince Frederik is being plagued by his lingering attachment to his first great love.

Mary is said to be shell-shocked by author Trine Villemann’s controversial book on the Danish royal family, 1015 Copenhagen K, which lays bare Prince Frederik’s forbidden love for his secret first fiancée Katja Storkholm — whom the author says the Prince should have married. The book has also confirmed insecure Mary’s worst fears by revealing that Frederik is still in regular contact with his ex-girlfriends.

“Mary broke down in tears about Katja,” says a palace insider. “In her mind the book has confirmed what she has always known in her heart — that Frederik has been unable to totally move on from Katja, his first great love.

“Frederik can be very secretive. Mary has long suspected that he has been calling Katja and now she feels certain.”

Mary’s suspicions have even led her to draw parallels between her situation and that of the late Princess Diana, whose marriage was plagued by Prince Charles’s love for Camilla Parker Bowles. “She says there are three people in her marriage — herself, Fred and his first love,” says an insider…

For the full story, plus an exclusive three-page extract from Trine Villemann’s book, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale October 22)

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