But the hum was in overdrive over almond lattes on Wednesday with a real royal in their midst.None other than Mary, her Royal Highness, Crown Princess of Denmark was having lunch at the corner restaurant.Church St was positively abuzz as the princess casually shopped down the retail street.Later, Princess Mary was spied over arched eyebrows and collective swoons taking in a healthy dose of retail therapy after quietly slipping into Australia.With her hair in a loose tousled bun, Chanel ballet flats and a casual white blouse and high waisted white denim trousers, the fashion forward royal melded in with the Brighton brigade of ladies who lunch, all except one thing.Her royal skin.Did you spot Princess Mary and take a picture? Contact alice.coster@news.com.auEvery onlooker spoken to remarked, or panted and gasped, at how Princess Mary’s skin glowed.A royal flush perhaps?“Her skin was translucent,” said one lunching nearby.“I thought how chic she looked and was lusting over her Chanel flats only to look up and see it was Princess Mary.”“A princess on Church St, in Brighton no less. It was just so very exciting,” a Church St retail assistant, who wanted to remain private out of respect for the royal, said.Making her first stop at homegrown fashion mecca HOSS, Princess Mary was accompanied by a friend, believed to be her royal bridesmaid, Amber Petty. Flanked by no security, she later visited Australian retailers Carla Zampatti, Saba and Morrisson.“She was so effortless and was really interested in Australian designers,” the retailer said.“It was her skin I couldn’t stop looking at. Her skin was positively glowing.”It is certainly not the first time the down to earth royal has slipped in to visit friends while travelling back to her home country to see family.Last month she celebrated her milestone 50th birthday with her Hobart-based sister Jane delivering her a touching tribute saying their late mother would have been “bursting with love and pride” for her.On Thursday the princess was still in Bayside, again visiting Ms Petty but this time in Elwood. With minimal fuss the Princess travelled shotgun, with her Aussie bestie in the driver’s seat of a modest red hatchback. Stopping for petrol, Princess Mary was seen on her phone as Ms Petty paid, with security waiting inconspicuously nearby.It’s understood she will soon depart her Melbourne pit stop for a Tasmanian sojourn where many of her family are based.Mary Donaldson married Prince Frederick in Denmark in 2004 to much fanfare. The couple went on to have four children, Prince Christian, born in October 2005, Princess Isabella, born in April 2007, and twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, born in January 2011.A true Aussie fairytale, commoner Mary met her prince at a pub during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. And as they say in the classics, they lived happily ever after.
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