Sonja Haraldsen - Pictures taken before her wedding

[Her_Majesty]

This is a thread to share Pictures of Sonja Haraldsen before her marriage with Prince Harald . So the period between 1937 and 1968.

Pictures:

Sonja Haraldsen in 1954, aged 17
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=450&frame=0

In sommer 1958 , being 21 years old, with her friends in Tjøme
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=450&frame=0
http://i25.tinypic.com/2n20i38.jpg
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13 years old
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=450&frame=0

With a friend in 1956
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=450&frame=0

Beautiful 18 years old Sonja on her Confirmation Portrait
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=450&frame=0

18 years old
http://i30.tinypic.com/29g0g29.jpg
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In 1960
http://i30.tinypic.com/110aptv.jpg
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First pictures of Harald and Sonja together:
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1...img1823995.jpg
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel...1183368441.jpg

[Anita]

Thanks for the pics !
Sonja really resembles both of her children very much . Sometimes it's more Haakon , sometimes Märtha . It's funny .

[Her_Majesty]

From Knudsens:
Sonja in 1968 (She is looking a bit like Princess Aimee, doesn't she?)
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Portrait taken on her engagement day
http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...2/sx06f059.jpg

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/arch...ja_444554p.jpg

Little cute toddler
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/arch...ja_444613c.jpg
Looking a bit like Ingrid Alexandra!

http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl...ffset=1&skip=2


Shopping in Oslo in 1968, after the press discovered that she's going to marry the Prince.
She looked really pretty then!
http://i30.tinypic.com/167tsno.jpg
Scanpix
http://i29.tinypic.com/jzwd5d.jpg
Polfoto

[sm1939]

Great pictures, waiting so long for her prince , she must have had some heart ache along the way , thinking would they ever be together .

[Her_Majesty]

A Gallery of Sonja's early years:
Destined to be a queen - Aftenposten.no


I think it must have been so hard to be the "secret girlfriend" for so many years... Sonja once said she didn't feel welcome in the Family at all, as the King didn't want to meet his son's girlfriend. Olav wanted Harald to marry a Princess instead.

She looks like Märtha here: http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/...pg_574141g.jpg

[sm1939]

first couple of years in there married life must of been difficult too.

[Her_Majesty]

Originally Posted by sm1939

first couple of years in there married life must of been difficult too.

Especially because the Royal House was really male-dominated this time.
And because of Sonja's stillbirths.


Attending the Holmenkollen Festival in 1968
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1...img1823517.jpg

[Anita]

On the pic where she wears a hat, she really looks very beautiful .

[Her_Majesty]

First official engagements as the CP's Fiancée in 1968

http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...0/sp9432bf.jpg
http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...0/sp932934.jpg
http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...0/sp932936.jpg

Sonja Henie(ice skater)and Sonja Haraldsen
http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...8/sp2746de.jpg

In Mexico 1968
http://images.sesam.no/scanpix/previ...0/sp946c84.jpg

[Her_Majesty]

A loving look for her Prince
Engaged couple
Medium Photo
more Pictures of this session can be found here.

Being very enthousiastic
Keystone

Skiing in the 50s
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=185&h=0&ee=
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=185&h=0&ee=

Unknown date
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=185&h=0&ee=


With her Guest Family in Switzerland
http://www.media.allerinternett.no/p...&w=185&h=0&ee=

[Her_Majesty]

A first picture of Sonja Haraldsen on a Magazine Cover:

Sonja on BUNTE Cover in 1967