Norwegian Centenary Celebration 2005

[Larzen]

Here is the program for this weekend which will finnish of the centenary celerations and who will attend

25.11
17.55 The goverment gives a concert and buffet at Akershus Palace to mark that there is 100 years since the Royal family arrived in Oslo.

The King and Queen, The Crown Prince, Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn, Princesess Ragnhild Mrs Lorentzen and Erling Lorentzen, Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner and Johan Martin Ferner Princess

26.11
19.00 Varietee show, Oslo Spektrum to mark the end of the centennial celebrations

The King and Queen, The Crown Prince, Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn, Princesess Ragnhild Mrs Lorentzen and erling Lorentzen, Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner and Johan Martin Ferner Princess

27.11
20.00 Ball at the Palace to mark the end of the centennial celebrations

The King and Queen, The Crown Prince, Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn, Princesess Ragnhild Mrs Lorentzen and Erling Lorentzen, Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner and Johan Martin Ferner Princess

Here is the link to the guestlist for the ball:
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehuset_newsstyleAll.asp?ogid=5&mgid=5&gid=501&aid=5220

Ferner Family
Elizabeth Ferner
Alexander and Margaret G Ferner
Benedikte Ferner and Aage Vinden

Loretnzen Family
Haakon and Martha Lorentzen
Olav Alexander Lorentzen
Christian Frederik Lorentzen

From each of the 19 countys of Norway there is invited 5 "normal" people with spouces. Also invited are politicians, ambassadors, judges, representants from all the organisations that has a royal patron. Representants form Minority organisations, all the Kings representants in the country (Fylkesmenn), the police and the press is also represented as are the people working at the court

 

[LaMinka]

Chrisitan Fredrik and Olav Alexander is from the Lorentzen family not Ferner

 

[KikkiB]

There is a slide show at the bottom of this page regarding the centennial and a bit more. Photos from the arrival in 1905, from WW2 and other family photos.

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/kongelig/article500252.ece

If you are interested I can translate the article too

 

[LaMinka]

A funny picture of Queen Sonja today at the centenary celebration at Akersuhus Castle today.. From VG

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=297717

 

[purple_platinum]

from anb.no :

 

[purple_platinum]

some photos from aftenposten :

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/kongelige/article1165302.ece

i wonder why there are so few photos from this events. is this a low-key gala?

 

[purple_platinum]

bigger pictures without watermark from siste : http://www.siste.no/Innenriks/article1843772.ece




http://www.supload.com/free/20051125-067_jpg_717976g.jpg/view/
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http://www.supload.com/free/20051125-069_jpg_717981g-260031.jpg/view/
http://www.supload.com/free/20051125-068_jpg_717977g-84834.jpg/view/

 

[purple_platinum]

Queen Sonja looks good in her bunad...

more from http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2005/11/25/450455.html



http://www.supload.com/free/storform_stor.jpg/view/

 

[Larzen]

some photos from aftenposten :
i wonder why there are so few photos from this events. is this a low-key gala?

I have said it before but those photoagencys that cover the Norwregian royals day to day activities, Scanpix, Alloverpress and se og hør/Brainpix are closed and therfor we usually only see pics if they make it to the online papers, or if colorpress or ukpress happen to be there which is not common, atleast not for the King and Queen. Getty/Corbis/Polfoto sometimes cover them abroad and big events in Norway.
www.anb.no sometimes cover events in Oslo and usually all gala dinners, and then put some of the pictures without watermark at www.siste.no later

TV2 will broadcast tonights show tomorrow so i I would expect them to put up some photos of todays event here

That beeing said I think the most highprofile event will be the gala on Sunday since there are people from all over the country invited, this event was just the royals and politicians

One more from nettavisen

 

[purple_platinum]

I have said it before but those photoagencys that cover the Norwregian royals day to day activities, Scanpix, Alloverpress and se og hør/Brainpix are closed and therfor we usually only see pics if they make it to the online papers, or if colorpress or ukpress happen to be there which is not common, atleast not for the King and Queen. Getty/Corbis/Polfoto sometimes cover them abroad and big events in Norway.
www.anb.no sometimes cover events in Oslo and usually all gala dinners, and then put some of the pictures without watermark at www.siste.no later

TV2 will broadcast tonights show tomorrow so i I would expect them to put up some photos of todays event here

That beeing said I think the most highprofile event will be the gala on Sunday since there are people from all over the country invited, this event was just the royals and politicians

thank you so much for the explanation, Larzen! that explains a lot...

 

[carlota]

nice to see martha and ari again! such a long time without having any news...
they all look really happy. the norwegian traditional costume looks quite cute as well on sonja and martha louise.

any ideas who this woman with sonja may be? http://www.supload.com/free/20051125-068_jpg_717977g-84834.jpg/view/

 

[LaMinka]

nice to see martha and ari again! such a long time without having any news...
they all look really happy. the norwegian traditional costume looks quite cute as well on sonja and martha louise.

any ideas who this woman with sonja may be? http://www.supload.com/free/20051125-068_jpg_717977g-84834.jpg/view/

Thats Ingrid Stoltenberg the wifte of Jens Stoltenberg. Jens is Norways prime minister

 

[norwegianne]

Thats Ingrid Stoltenberg the wifte of Jens Stoltenberg. Jens is Norways prime minister

She never took his name. Her last name is Schulerud or something along those lines.

 

[purple_platinum]

Tonight at Oslo Spektrum :

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1165409.ece

photo gallery
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1165425.ece

 

[Larzen]

Haakon is there even if he was not on the agenda, which means still no baby
Sonjas dress has been out and about atleast 25 times before...
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/kongelig/article500981.ece?id=54343&slide=0#slide

 

[corazon]

Haakon is there even if he was not on the agenda, which means still no baby

maybe tomorrow, I hope.

 

[LaMinka]

Haakon is there even if he was not on the agenda, which means still no baby

maybe tomorrow, I hope.

It is tomorrow in Norway now! so please baby! I can't wait any longer!

 

[LaMinka]

She never took his name. Her last name is Schulerud or something along those lines.

I didn't know that. I does just know that she is named Ingrid and is married to Stoltenberg.

 

[Larzen]

Flowers and decorations for the Palace ball

The historical surroundings around the Palace ball will be underlined by exhibiting different decorational items, mostly silver that has been gifts to the royal family for different anniversaries. These items represents the best of Norwegian art traditions from different time-periods from1900-2000, many of them are very rarely seen and used. They will be placed chronological and thematic in each room where the guests will move trough and it is a good opportunity to show of the Palace treasures

Flowers
During the palace ball the exhibited silver will have focus and the flowers are chosen not to overpower the silver, but will be used to create life. It has been important to highlight traditions in the choice of flowers; the colours are green, lime green and white. It will be used among other flowers Roses, Carnations, Hortensia, Calla lilies, Ivy, grapes, lichens and grass

Then there is a detailed explanation of the decoration in the different rooms but that is too much to translate
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehuset_newsstyle.asp?gid=501&mgid=5&aid=5225

What they got to eat, it was a standing buffet
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=297871

Some guests arriving
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=297866

The Kings speech
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehuset_newsstyleAll.asp?ogid=5&gid=501&aid=5229

Some first pics from VG

 

[carlota]

nice to see sonja is wearing that beautiful coral dress again! i trully love it...

more pics i found in anp

 

[Mandy]

Scanpix Pictures of the ball.

 

[Larzen]

Nettavisen
I do like Märtha Louises dress allthough the color is unussally sober for her

 

[KikkiB]

a big photo from dagbladet
I'm really sorry to say this but i'm quite dissapointed with the minimum coverage of this event. probably we'll see more tomorrow... probably not...
why doesn't intl photo agency (like getty, polfoto, corbis, seegerpress, etc) didn't cover this gala ball? because i've seen them do coverage for other norwegian royal events. so, why can't this gala too?

I was also quite disappointed about the coverage. Just a bit in the news on tv and that was it I just hope NRK is planning to make a programme about it, that they will show at a later time (perhaps during the Christmas holidays, that's when they usually have such hearty, good value programmes!)

 

[Larzen]

I belive the Palace practices "Pool photography" that means that only a few photo agencys are allowed inside. I have not seen gala pictures that are not credited to ANB, SCANPIX or ALL OVER PRESS that I can remember. You never see such hords of photographers as the spanish court allow. They also let the two main TV channels take pictures. When the Swedish royals payed a visit, IBL which is a swedish company was also allowed there. I suspect that when the Spanish Royal couple will make a statevisit in the early summer 2006 we will se more pictures as they will probably let inn some of the agencys that usually cover the spanish royals.

That beeing said there are hudrets of pictures ar www.anb.no but most of them look the same from the greeting and are of bad quality so its no point to put more of them here, Im disappointed www.siste.no has not made a photogallery of this gala they usually do it.

 

[purple_platinum]

I belive the Palace practices "Pool photography" that means that only a few photo agencys are allowed inside. I have not seen gala pictures that are not credited to ANB, SCANPIX or ALL OVER PRESS that I can remember. You never see such hords of photographers as the spanish court allow. They also let the two main TV channels take pictures. When the Swedish royals payed a visit, IBL which is a swedish company was also allowed there. I suspect that when the Spanish Royal couple will make a statevisit in the early summer 2006 we will se more pictures as they will probably let inn some of the agencys that usually cover the spanish royals.

That beeing said there are hudrets of pictures ar www.anb.no but most of them look the same from the greeting and are of bad quality so its no point to put more of them here, Im disappointed www.siste.no has not made a photogallery of this gala they usually do it.

Thank you once again for your explanation, Larzen!
it really help me understand the norwegian royal protocol better.
yes, i've seen the many many photos from anb, but yes, they're pretty much has the same angle & quality...
but, oh well, thank you everyone who has posted the photos!
i hope i don't offend anyone with my comment..

 

[purple_platinum]

photo link from aftenposten : http://www.aftenposten.no/english/bildeserier/article1166361.ece

 

[purple_platinum]

More photos from the Government Gala at Akerhus Castle
courtesy of aftenposten

 

[purple_platinum]

2 more from the concert at Oslo Spektrum
(courtesy of aftenposten)

 

[Larzen]

Purple Platinum I think VG have read you complaint about to little pictures and they have uploaded more than 800 pictures from the ball, I replaced the crappy ANB pics in this post with some of them

The first 2-300 pics are of people arriving outside but if you view the series the wrong way by pressing "Forrige" you`ll go directly to the royals
http://www.vg.no/bilderigg/spesialer/slottsball/

some more pics from that series


I always thought Ingrid Schulerud (the PMs wife i a black strapless dress) very elegant the last time he was PM but she deffenelty needs to rethink this dress which she is almost falling out of

 

[purple_platinum]

Purple Platinum I think VG have read you complaint about to little pictures and they have uploaded more than 800 pictures from the ball, I replaced the crappy ANB pics in this post with some of them

oh my gosh... you're so right, larzen!!!
finally, the grandeur of this event can be seen...
hehe... thanks for letting us know, larzen!