State Visit from Switzerland - October 2010

**Her_Majesty** · #1 03-15-2010, 02:46 PM

The Swiss Confederation President, Her Excellence Doris Leuthard, will pay a state visit to Norway from October 14th to 15th this year.

kongehuset.no - Statsbesøk fra Sveits

**Her_Majesty** · #2 10-11-2010, 02:32 PM

Program for the State Visit

14.10.2010

State visit from Switzerland
Their Majesties The King and Queen welcome the President of the Swiss Confederation, Her Excellency Ms Doris Leuthard and Dr Roland Hausin on their State visit to Norway 14 - 15 October.

Wecoming ceremony
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen greet Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin in the Palace Square. Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess will also be in attendance (12:30).

Official Luncheon
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen host an official luncheon in honour of Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin at The Royal Palace. Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess, and Her Highness Princess Astrid, Mrs Ferner will also be in attendance (13:30).

Wreath-laying ceremony
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen accompany Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin to the wreath-laying ceremony at the National Monument, Akershus Castle (15:20).

Design Preis Schweiz
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen accompany Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin to the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, DogA, for the inauguration of the exhibition Design Preis Schweiz (15:45).

The Storting
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: His Majesty The King accompanies Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard to the Storting for a meeting with Mr Dag Terje Andersen, President of the Storting (16:40).

Exhibition
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Her Majesty The Queen accompanies Dr. Roland Hausin to the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine where they will tour the exhibitions on oil and gas and the use of plastics (16:45).

Gala dinner
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen host a gala dinner in honour of Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin at the Royal Palace. Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess, and Her Highness Princess Astrid, Mrs Ferner will also be in attendance (20:00).

15.10.2010

MedTech Seminar
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen, Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin attend the opening of the seminar "Swiss Medical Technology meets Healthcare in Norway" at Rikshospitalet University Hospital (09:15).

The Nobel Institute
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Her Majesty The Queen accompanies Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin to the Norwegian Nobel Institute, where President Leuthard will give the address "The World is shifting - where is the European continent heading?" (10:30).

Official Luncheon
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen attend the Norwegian Government's luncheon in honour of Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin at the Government Guest House. Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess will also be in attendance (13:00).

Concert and Reception
State visit from the Swiss Confederation: Their Majesties The King and Queen are the guests of Her Excellency President Doris Leuthard and Dr. Roland Hausin at a concert followed by a reception at the Grand hotel. Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess will also be in attendance (17:30).

leon · #3 10-14-2010, 08:04 AM

First article and picture!
Bommet på den sveitsiske nasjonalsangen - Nyheter - Kongelige - Aftenposten.no

Marika86 · #4 10-14-2010, 08:49 AM

Photos:

Pic 1 * Pic 2

http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture...e/2666212.html

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Se...roduct=Royalty

**Her_Majesty** · #5 10-14-2010, 09:23 AM

Pictures from Side2: KONG HARALD - Her spiller de feil - Side2
Video at NRK: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7336052

Marika86 · #6 10-14-2010, 03:44 PM

Gala dinner. October 14, 2010

Belga picture gallery:

BelgaPicture - Category details

Maura724 · #7 10-14-2010, 05:28 PM

I'm really hating Mette-Marit's dress - good color but she's way too young for the style. The Swiss President's dress would be very pretty if it weren't for that huge flower thing...at least, I guess it's supposed to be a flower. Whatever it is, it's awful.

I'm sort of on the fence about Astrid's...although I'm leaning towards loving it. It's loud, it's shiny, it's flashy, it's colorful, I'm not sure I would wear it myself, but somehow I'm kind of thinking it's awesome.

wartenberg7 · #8 10-14-2010, 05:47 PM

Astrid´s dress "awsome"?! C´mon, you must have meant "awful", didn´t you?
I used to like this red dress of the CPrincess, but this black belt destroys it, unfortunately.... It reallly looked very elegant when she wore it in Thailand some years ago!

Maura724 · #9 10-14-2010, 06:44 PM

Nope, I meant awesome.

I actually don't know why I like it, because all the things I listed about it (shiny, loud, flashy, colorful) are usually all bad things and reasons to hate a dress...and I can totally see why you think it looks awful. But I don't know...there's just something about it that makes me love it. I think it might be because I've seen Astrid in some other questionably-colorful and loud outfits in the past (such as her fruit-printed dress that was worn to another state visit) and, since I really like her, somehow I've learned to love the, um, flashier things in her wardrobe.

jonc93 · #10 10-14-2010, 08:12 PM

Of all the ladies I actually liked Astrids dress the most. The queen looks nice but I feel like we've seen that dress a hundred times before! M-M looks alright but I don't like the belt on the dress.

charlottestreasures · #11 10-14-2010, 08:34 PM

I quess they played the wrong National Athemn for Switzerland.
Love how they had the light show on the palace.

All the ladies look lovely. I agree about the black belt for Mette Marit, other than that she was beautiful. I liked the Swiss President's dress and
that flower on edge of the dress.

Maura724 · #12 10-14-2010, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonc93

Of all the ladies I actually liked Astrids dress the most.

So I'm not alone, then!

It's certainly very gold - I think that's why I like it; I like bright things. She's celebrating her golden wedding anniversary in January, so maybe the plan is to wear it for the dinner that I assume the NRF will be having.