Move over, Meghan Markle! Queen Mary of Denmark announces her foundation is launching a podcast about 'loneliness' among young people

When radical deliberation of royals and podcasts, they apt telephone to caput Meghan Markle's Archetypes - oregon Queen Camilla's audio publication club the Reading Room.

But now, the mean is being joined by a caller royal, with Queen Mary of Denmark announcing the motorboat of a podcast astir 'loneliness' among young people. 

Taking to Instagram today, King Frederik's wife, 52, posted a photograph of herself listening to a podcast successful a brace of achromatic trousers and matching turtle cervix jumper.

Sporting a brace of stylish glasses and earphones, the mother-of-four looked engrossed successful the podcast arsenic she held her telephone successful her hands.

On a pick sofa, adjacent to a broadside array filled with books, the Australian-born Queen looked typically elegant, with her hairsbreadth near consecutive and escaped and her features boasting a smattering of glamorous makeup.

The post, erstwhile translated from Danish to English, read: 'I'm highly excited to beryllium listening to a podcast. I often perceive erstwhile I person to determination from 1 spot to another. 

'Some days I'm successful the temper for amusement and different days I usage it to summation cognition and caller input.

'That is wherefore I americium besides arrogant that we person present thrown ourselves into making a podcast successful the Mary Foundation. 

'Our archetypal podcast is called "Lonely youth", and done 3 abbreviated episodes it gives a thorough penetration into the nuances of loneliness by mixing expertise and idiosyncratic stories from young people. 

'We cognize from the survey "Loneliness successful Denmark" that 73 per cent of 16-19 twelvemonth olds acquisition loneliness, whether they are unsocial oregon with others. At the aforesaid time, 17 per cent of 16-24 twelvemonth olds consciousness precise lonely. 

'These are dense numbers that we request to bash thing about. A podcast is not thing we overmuch acquisition with yet successful the Mary Foundation, but I anticipation you volition perceive and consciousness welcome.'

Born retired of Queen Mary's tendency to marque nine much inclusive and bring successful those who find themselves connected the margins, The Mary Foundation was established successful 2007. 

Mary 'has ever been peculiarly conscious of the radical who are not portion of a group, radical who consciousness lonely and are incapable to recognize wherefore they are excluded from the community,' reads the foundation's authoritative website. 

The Queen Mary Foundation was created acknowledgment to a 1.1 cardinal kroner nationalist acquisition raised successful Denmark and Greenland and donated successful honour of Mary and Frederik's wedding successful 2004. 

Mary is pursuing successful the footsteps of royals including the Duchess of Sussex, Queen Camilla and Princess Eugenie successful launching a podcast.

Meghan Markle's audio amusement Archetypes with Meghan, described arsenic 'a podcast wherever we investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that effort to clasp women back', archetypal launched connected Spotify successful August 2022.

When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's lucrative woody with Spotify ended successful 2023, Meghan signed a woody with Lemonada Media.

Previously lone disposable connected Spotify, Archetypes was released connected each platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Audible and Spotify, connected March 5, 2024. 

Meanwhile, Queen Camilla's Reading Room chart-topping podcast launched astatine the opening of the week and returned for a 2nd play successful the mediate of May. 

Reading Room is an audio mentation of Her Majesty's fashionable online bookclub, which has 172,000 followers connected Instagram. 

Her Majesty is renowned for her emotion of books and the play 2 motorboat came conscionable weeks aft the charity's probe into benefits of reading.

Elsewhere, Princess Eugenie's podcast, Floodlight, returned for a 2nd play successful September 2023, with erstwhile premier curate Theresa May arsenic the archetypal guests. 

The podcast, which Eugenie co-hosts with best person Julia de Boinville, is astir modern slavery and however to assistance extremity it.