Official Visit from Norway to Sweden - 1-2 September 2005

[grevinnan]

Princess Madeleine and the late Queen Astrid of Belgium do look quite alike, especially when Princess Madeleine has her hair pulled back. They are both extraordinarily beautiful.

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[misshelen]

Picture from www.royalcourt.se

[Alisa]

Nice photo..I truly like this gown by Queen Silvia. She looks fantastic!! No more gushing from me.

[Alexandria]

Thank you everybody for all the pictures from today's Norwegian visit to Sweden. :)

I have two questions:

How is King Harald's health? It is great to see him on this trip (especially since we are missing Mette-Marit) but I wonder how he feels? He certainly looks much better.

I noticed that Madeleine and Lilian attended the gala but how come they were not part of this picture with everybody else?

[carlota]

madeleine's pink dress looks wonderful with the tan! about victoria, i loved that dress from the first moment i saw it for the first time, lovely! sonja seems to eclipse the rest with such a vivid colour, the dress is beautiful though.

[timoka]

I agree. They all looked fabolous at the Gala. But what happened to Matte-Merit? Where is she? Why didn't she attend at the Swedish State visit?

[kwanfan]

Originally Posted by timoka

I agree. They all looked fabolous at the Gala. But what happened to Matte-Merit? Where is she? Why didn't she attend at the Swedish State visit?

Mette-Marit did not attend because of low blood pressure. With her being pregnant her doctors decided it was best she stay home.

[ap3]

I really liked Victoria's red top and black skirt from the day ceremony. But her brim looked like someone sat on it, it's so uneven. Mind you, her hair was too pulled-back and flat when she removed the hat!

Loved everyone's gala outfits. Except for Sonja's bright yellow dress, way too yellow.

[robby86]

Originally Posted by ap3

I really liked Victoria's red top and black skirt from the day ceremony. But her brim looked like someone sat on it, it's so uneven. Mind you, her hair was too pulled-back and flat when she removed the hat!

Loved everyone's gala outfits. Except for Sonja's bright yellow dress, way too yellow.

I thought Victoria's hair was perfict! :)

[Cissan]

I went down to Skeppsbron in Stockholm (where the Norwegians ship lies) yesterday after work and my timing was perfect, the royals just came back from the day's activities. I thought that, "what goes in must come out" so I stayed there for about 90 minutes (my husband was with me). And after a while they came out in their gala outfits. They seemed very nice and waved to us (it was a very small crowd). Especially Haakon stopped and waved for a long time. I noticed that Sonja seemed to have a bit of troubles with the bridge up to the boat. Does she have some injury?

However, it was nice weather and a lovely evening!

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by Lyle

Hey! I was just wondering if anyone knew which language these two families speak when they are together. Are Swedish and Norwegian close enough that they could understand each others languages without trouble or do they probably speak English together? Maybe the Swedes and Norwegians on the Forum could help with this question! Thanks!

Swedish and Norwegian are close enough so that we understand each other while speaking our mother tongue so I very much doubt they speak English together.

[Marengo]

Thanks for the pictures!

Queen Sonja wore both the thing in dots and the yellow dress before. I believe the yellow dress was worn in Spain, at the pre-wedding ball for Infanta Cristina (and before that she wore it as werll, I remember a picture of her waving on a balcony in this dress).
Marie-Therese of Luxembourg has the same dress (with the dots) as queen Sonja, only in a brownish shade, this dress also dates from the mid/late 90-ties.

Victoria looked very lovely I might add, both during the gala during the day. Red suits her well.

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Lyle

Hey! I was just wondering if anyone knew which language these two families speak when they are together. Are Swedish and Norwegian close enough that they could understand each others languages without trouble or do they probably speak English together? Maybe the Swedes and Norwegians on the Forum could help with this question! Thanks!

I think that they speak their own languages - the Norwegians speak Norwegian and the Swedes speak Swedish during this visit. Swedes, Norwegians and Danes can usually understand each other quite well, with the exception of some difficult dialects of course.

When Queen Margrethe visits Sweden and the Swedish Royal Family, she can speak Swedish with them if she wishes too, she speaks an excellent Swedish.

[Larzen]

Originally Posted by Cissan

I noticed that Sonja seemed to have a bit of troubles with the bridge up to the boat. Does she have some injury?

She has had several opperations in her feet and rarely wear high heels anylonger, I also noticed she had trouble getting down

More pictures fromthe gala and some close ups of the BLING, Madeleine looks very beautiful.

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[Josefine]

sonja really used her grand jewllery

[Larzen]

more from UK PRess, so we have 5 royal ladies and they are all wearing dresses that has been around before, It would not hurt to get new one every now and then, but they still do look great

Also three from the design exhibition, Victoria obiously felt the need to compensate the loss of hat with some glasses

[Josefine]

is this the first time we see madeleine doing something more with the hair togather with the tiara

[Larzen]

Some more pictures from the church visit, to me it looks like Silvia has been shopping at Natan, I think I have seen Mathilde with the same shoes and similar bag, She looks very elegant
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