Queen Mary knocked to the ground by elderly man on scooter during Greenland visit
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Denmark’s Queen Mary was knocked to the ground by an elderly man on a mobility scooter during a meet and greet in Greenland.
The scooter rider reportedly reached out to shake her hand before accidentally hitting the accelerator and smashing into the Danish royal.
Video footage posted online by Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet shows security rushing to the Queen’s aid as gasps ripple through the crowd.
But the Tasmanian-born Mary, 52, quickly stood back up, appearing unfazed by the incident.
Danish media reported no one was injured at the time.
The Daily Mail reports a spectator said her eyes were “full with water” after being hit.
“I could see how much it hurt her, her eyes watered immediately. It must hurt to be hit at that speed,” a bystander said.
“The police immediately barricaded and removed her from the situation.”
Queen Mary, her husband King Frederik X and their two youngest children Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine made the official visit to the Danish territory of Greenland in the first week of July.
It’s one of several royal visits scheduled for the newly minted King and Queen, who were appointed to the throne in January.
The Hobart native, then Mary Donaldson, met then Crown Prince Frederik in 2000 while he was attending the Summer Olympics in Sydney.
The couple married in 2004 at Vor Frue Kirke, or Copenhagen Cathedral, and have four children, Christian, Isabella, Vincent and Josephine.
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