Family news and pictures thread

[Larzen]

Dagbladet tonight publishes all the Norwegian monograms with promission from the Royal Court

It seems only King Haralds monogram is allowed to use in public, according to the court the rest are private property and shal be protected agins misuse. Is posting them here misuse I wonder:(. From Dagbladet

[purple_platinum]

The whole Norwegian RF will be out & about this sunday (12 March 2006).
The King & Queen, as well as the Crown Prince & Crown Princess, and Princess Astrid will be present at Holmenkollen Ski Festival. They'll also be joined with Archduke Carl Christian & Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria.
Meanwhile, Princess Martha Louise will attend the 12th Paralympics Winter Game in Torino, Italy.

(source : kongehuset.no)

[Larzen]

King Harald and Princess Astrid in Holmenkollen on Saturday, we will se them and bigger part of the family there tomorrow....
1-6 Arne Knudsen © Knudsens Fotosenter
7 ANB

[Larzen]

The royals just arrived in Holmenkollen, King Harald, Queen Sonja, The Crown Prince Couple and Marius, Archduchess Marie Astrid and Archduke Carl Christian and Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner. Marie Astrid hugged the Crown Prince Couple and Marius before they headed up to the tribune (And today there is not even a hint of fog which there usually always is) Its King Haralds 61st visit to Holmenkollen Ski Festival

[purple_platinum]

Originally Posted by Larzen

The royals just arrived in Holmenkollen, King Harald, Queen Sonja, The Crown Prince Couple and Marius, Archduchess Marie Astrid and Archduke Carl Christian and Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner. Marie Astrid hugged the Crown Prince Couple and Marius before they headed up to the tribune (And today there is not even a hint of fog which there usually always is) Its King Haralds 61st visit to Holmenkollen Ski Festival

no Ingrid Alexandra & Sverre Magnus? :o

[Valhalla]

Originally Posted by purple_platinum

no Ingrid Alexandra & Marius? :o

Marius is there. The little princess is not...

[...JuAnItA...]

And is the Queen there?

[Valhalla]

Originally Posted by ...JuAnItA...

And is the Queen there?

Yes, Queen Sonja is there:)

[...JuAnItA...]

Originally Posted by Valhalla

Yes, Queen Sonja is there:)

Thank you, Valhalla!

[Larzen]

Here is some interesting news for a 6 day event in June
My translation from http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehus...gid=5&aid=5523

Coronation-Journey
Form June the 19-21 the King, Queen and Crown Prince Couple will make a trip in the footsteps og King Haakon, Queen Maud and Crown Prince Olav

The reason is that on June 22 it is 100 years since King Haakon and Queen Maud was crowned in Trondheim.

The trip starts with car from the Royal Palace and the first stop is Eidsvoll, the the royals will go onboard the royal train (its one carriage not a whole train) and continue to Hamar

The train will make a stop at Odda and finally at Åndlasnes where the royal family will board the Royal Yacht Norge.

The yacht will stop at Kristiansund and Austråt, and the royal family will leave the ship in Trondheim on June 21. With the exception of Austeråt all places was visited on the Coronation journey 100 years ago.

The rest of the Royal Family will arrive directly in Trondheim for the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Coronationa held in Trondheim from June 22-24

One of the events in Trondheim I belive is opening a new visitor center next to the church where Märtha Louise got married and the Crown Jewels are put on permanent display in one of the buildings in the Archbishops palace (I think) June will be very busy since it will also be a 3 day spanish statevisit that month (and someone must go to Thailand for the diamond jubilee)

[kwanfan]

Originally Posted by Larzen

One of the events in Trondheim I belive is opening a new visitor center next to the church where Märtha Louise got married and the Crown Jewels are put on permanent display in one of the buildings in the Archbishops palace (I think) June will be very busy since it will also be a 3 day spanish statevisit that month (and someone must go to Thailand for the diamond jubilee)

According to this link http://members3.boardhost.com/Oranje...142651956.html Haakon and Mette-Marit will attend the Thai diamond jubilee.

[Larzen]

Originally Posted by kwanfan

According to this link http://members3.boardhost.com/Oranje...142651956.html Haakon and Mette-Marit will attend the Thai diamond jubilee.

That is not a confirmed list, its speculation, there has so far been nothing official from the court on who is going but conisdering it was said the King would not make long trips outside Europe this year it is likely it will be them, it was also mentioned on the european royal messageboard by one of those who are usually well informed, but its better to wait for official confirmation.

[Larzen]

The royal family will not celebrate easter at the Royal Mountain chalet(Prinsehytta) in Sikkilsdalen.
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehus...=23&gid=67&aid=
It used to be a tradition that the family celebrated easter there and that they took part in the ski competition on easter saturday. The spokesperson says they this year will have private vacation/celebrate in private, no words on where (I guess that means abroad)

The last 3 years the family have not used the cabine
Last year they had planned to go but when the King got sick they chose to stay in Oslo
In 2004 when the King was recovering from Cancer, the King, Queen and Crown Prince Family went to Capri in Italy, Märtha and family was rumoured to be in Jordan
In 2003 Märtha Louise was Very pregnant and they chose the cabine at Lillehammer, I think Haakon and Mette-Marit was in Brazil
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/k...icle595943.ece
Here is though a pictures of Haakon and Mette-Marit outside the house in 2002 (she had a broken leg), Ari Behn in the easter ski competition in 2002 (He could have gotten a broken leg with his average skiing abilities but dressed to impress though) a pic of the cabine (Scanpix)

[Larzen]

Royal finances in the red
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1271804.ece

The state budget for maintaining Norway's royal family dipped into the red last year, with expenses exceeding state funding by nearly NOK 3.2 million. Much of the cost overrun was blamed on expenses tied to last year's centennial celebrations.

Read the report here, it contains many nice pictures, all the events that has been performed, all the medals that has been given and more, only in norwegian
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehus...gid=5&aid=5555

The report says the overuse will be covered by money set aside from other budgets

A few pics from the report
1 Gala dinner for the staff to celebrate the centenary in november 2005
2 Concert for Queen Sonjas music competition in august 2005
3 The Crown Prince Regent inspects the quarld
4 Queen Sonja getting food at the centennary ball
5 The King and Pincess Lilian
6-10 Deocrations for the ball and the chandeliers that has been renovated

[purple_platinum]

Several state visit for Norway this year...

Posted by Liza on SRMB

From the calendar of the Minister of forreign affairs

8.6 State visit from Spain (Two days in Oslo, one day in Bergen I think)
29-31.8 State visit from Bulgaria
18-19.9 Planned state visit to Ireland http://odin.dep.no/ud/norsk/dep/minister_a/kalender/bn.html

[kwanfan]

Looking at the scheduled engagements for June it seems like that will be a busy month for the Norwegian royals. First the Spanish state visit, then Haakon & Mette-Marit go to Thailand, then the weeklong events for the coronation anniversary. Three big events for members of the family that month.

[Pink Tulip]

Originally Posted by kwanfan

Looking at the scheduled engagements for June it seems like that will be a busy month for the Norwegian royals. First the Spanish state visit, then Haakon & Mette-Marit go to Thailand, then the weeklong events for the coronation anniversary. Three big events for members of the family that month.

Looking forward to plenty of new photos then!

[Larzen]

Press release for the state visit from Spain 6-8 June
It will start in Oslo on the 6th and end in Bergen on the 8th.
the most interesting part is a planned visit to the Troll A platform, its the most valuable gass field in the NOrth Sea, I guess it is weather dependant though since they will have to go by chopper

http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehus...gid=5&aid=5587

Pictures from Troll A, where you can really see the size of it
http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SV...256BC2003671D9

I would guess it will only be the Norwegian King and Queen who goes with the Spanish guests to Bergen and Troll and that they younger Royals will only be there for the events in Oslo

[Larzen]

Norwegian Se og Hør has finally gotten a decent website, they have now also news not only the frontpage, it seems so far that they take their news from other magazines and papers and dont show their exclusives they have in their magazine, atleast the stories from Denmark seems to be lifted directly from Ekstrabladet and Danish Se og HØr.

Here is the adress to the royal section
http://www.seher.no/cm/SeHer/Kongelige

se og Hør also has the story about the supposed problems the Crown Prince Couple (and Queen Sonja, she was mentiond in the original paper article, not in this online bit) has with the new bishop of Oslo, Ole K Kvarme, who is conservative on gay issues and has said that gay people can be reoriented by seeing a psychologist, they do not have the same warm relationship as they had with the former more liberal Bishop Stålsett. They were according to this article not happy it was Kvarme who christened Sverre Magnus
Article comes with a nice pictures from Christmas
http://www.seher.no/cm/SeHer/Kongeli...ngehus/1.19739

It also has a picture from a family event last year we did not see or hear about, the gala dinner given to the staff in November or December, here we can see Märtha Louise recyceling the dress from Frederiks prewedding dinner. Photo by John Eeg

[Larzen]

Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon in audience with the winner of the mathematical prize "Abel Prisen"

I dont understand why Mette-Marit could not come for this event, its like 15 minutes inside the palace, its getting a bit rediculous if she is not going to do anything in May either.

From anb via www.Siste.no