The Royal Family's Current Events - Part 3 (December 2004 - May 2005)

[GrandDuchess]

January:

April theme for the King and Queen: Swedish foreign aid

#27th Trip to Poland and Auschwitz-Birkenau to attend a ceremony for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and a seminar with Vice Prime Minister Bosse Ringholm and 500 young people from all over the world (The Crown Princess)

February:

February theme for the King and Queen: Power and energy in the future

# Trip to Thailand to thank King Bhumibol and his people for the Thai people’s work (The King)

# Opening of an exhibition in the Royal Armoury in Stockholm (Princess Madeleine)

# 25th Opening of The Year of the Vikings on Gotland (Crown Princess Victoria)

# 26th Attendance at the opening of the fair Equitana 2005, and opening of the Swedish section at the fair, Essen in Germany (Crown Princess Victoria)

# 25-27th Attendance at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Obersdorf in Germany (The King and Queen)

March:

March theme for the King and Queen: How should Sweden be governed? (distribution of work and responsibilities between municipalities, counties and state)

# 10-18th Trip to Australia to take part in “ Swedish Style” (The Crown Princess)

# Trip to Kenya to study the UN’s environment programme (The King)

# 31-1st State Visit from Lithuania to Sweden

April:

April theme for the King and Queen: EU and the new constitution, Sweden’s future role

# 1-2st Trip to Denmark to take part in the HC Andersen Jubilee Celebrations in Denmark (The Crown Princess)

# 6th Trip to Aichi in Japan to visit Expo-05 and attend The Sweden Day (The Crown Princess)

# Opening of an exhibition at The Royal Academy for the Free Arts (Prince Carl Philip)

# 21-24th Trip to Rome in Italy to take part in the Board Meeting of the World Scout Foundation (The King)

# 26th Visit to Haparanda in the north of Sweden to inaugurate a monument for the 70 000 Finnish children that Sweden took on during the war (The King)

# 29th Opening of the Tycho Brahe Museum in Skåne (The Crown Princess)

# Trip to Bangladesh to study the Swedish aid, and in connection with that possibly a visit to one of the catastrophe-struck areas (The Crown Princess)

# 30th The King’s Birthday

May:

May theme for the King and Queen: Unemployment in Sweden, at the same time as many industries is screaming for people

# 3rd Opening of the World Heritage Museum in Falun, Dalarna (The Crown Princess)

# 25th Awarding of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award at Skansen in Stockholm (The Crown Princess)

June:

June theme for the King and Queen: The voluntary defence organisations, their structure and work

# 10th Trip to the west coast to attend the opening celebrations for the Svinesunds Bridge between Sweden and Norway. This will be the first of two days on the Swedish Royal Couple's official visit to Norway, marking the Norwegian Centennial Celebration of Independence from Sweden (The King and Queen)

# 11th Opening of The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo together with the Norwegian Royal Couple. This will be the second of two days on the Swedish Royal Couple's official visit to Norway, marking the Norwegian Centennial Celebration of Independence from Sweden (The King and Queen)

# Bernadotte family get-together at Sofiero Palace in Skåne, celebrating 100 years (The Royal Family + relatives?)

[Lena]

Thanks GrandDuchess for the exact dates...from where do you have them??

[Gita]

Has Princess Madeleine returned to University yet? Does anybody know what she will study for the spring term?

Thanks, Gita.

[Lena]

Originally Posted by Gita

Has Princess Madeleine returned to University yet? Does anybody know what she will study for the spring term?

Thanks, Gita.

She surely has, the term has started about one week ago. Since this (loooooooong) term will go until june, I guess we won´t see much of her in spring. I don´t think we will see more single engagements than the two mentioned. Probably she will be present at the birthday of her father, and hopefully at the second (this year first) representation gala. I have no informations on her studies, but I guess she goes on with ethnology.

misread lenas post

Tztztztztztz

[Gita]

Thanks Lena! :)

[timtonruben359]

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Support for the Swedish monarchy has grown since the Asian tsunami disaster, with 80 percent of Swedes saying they support the royal family and just 16 percent saying they wanted them removed, Radio Sweden reported on Monday. The royal family normally enjoys 65 to 70 percent popular support but in the aftermath of the tsunami, which saw His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustav speak openly and emotionally about the tragedy, support has grown.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2503156.htm

[La Chen]

Ethnology? She was studing something in art, decoration...was she? why did she change, if she really did it?

[Yennie]

Originally Posted by La Chen

Ethnology? She was studing something in art, decoration...was she? why did she change, if she really did it?

Madeleine started with 60 points (= 3 terms) science of art. Since september 2004 she studies ethnologhy at Stockholm university.
My guess is that she wants to get some sort of diploma, and I think 80 points is a "magister examen"?!

[Dennism]

Originally Posted by timtonruben359

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Support for the Swedish monarchy has grown since the Asian tsunami disaster, with 80 percent of Swedes saying they support the royal family and just 16 percent saying they wanted them removed, Radio Sweden reported on Monday. The royal family normally enjoys 65 to 70 percent popular support but in the aftermath of the tsunami, which saw His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustav speak openly and emotionally about the tragedy, support has grown.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2503156.htm

This is hardly a surprise but it´s good that it has gone up.

[Josefine]

http://www.thelocal.se

Silvia's kidnap worry

Reports suggest that the kidnapping of businessman Fabian Bengtsson has shaken the royal family. A source told Aftonbladet that both the king and queen were concerned for the safety of their children.

"If it was up to Silvia, both Carl Philip and Madeleine would stay home. But she realises that that's out of the question. They've got to live."

The two younger royal children first received regular protection from Säpo, the Swedish security police, in the wake of the kidnapping of Erik Westerberg, the heir of a wealthy industrial family, in 2002.

Anders Kassman, head of Säpo's Personal Protection Squad, commented:

"With such a high profile incident as [the Bengtsson kidnapping], we'll find out what the facts are, see whether they impact the overall threat and take any necessary measures."

Madeleine had what may be a taste of things to come on Saturday night as she partied with boyfriend Jonas Bergström at Kharma, a fashionable bar in Stockholm.

The venue was searched by police in advance of the royal visit and the princess was attended by four Säpo bodyguards, twice the usual number. Three of them were stationed around her table and the fourth was constantly at her side.

It's not known what Jonas made of that, but the extra close attention from Sweden's finest didn't seem to cramp their style too much. The couple left the bar by a side entrance at three o'clock in the morning.

A friend of Madde told Aftonbladet:

"She's not as used to having bodyguards as Victoria. She thinks it's a pain. But at the same time, she's not stupid and realised there's no alternative at the moment."

[Josefine]

GrandDuchess thank you so much for the spring schadule i posted someof the events in the chit chat forum in the thread for all the royal watchers

[GrandDuchess]

Official Engagements Week 5 (31 January – 6 February)

Monday 31/1

> H.M. The King
Precedence: The Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Pier Ferdinando Cassini
The Royal Palace of Stockholm

> T.M. The King and Queen
Awarding of H.M. The King’s Medal
The Royal Palace of Stockholm

Tuesday 1/2

> H.R.H. The Crown Princess
Opening of the 2005 Year of Design
The Old Central Post, Stockholm

Wednesday 2/2

> T.M. The King and Queen
Opening of the Jokkmokk Winter Market
Jokkmokk, Norrbotten County

Friday 4/2

> H.R.H. The Crown Princess
Attendance at a prize awarding for an essay contest, “Chemistry 10 Years”, during the Berzelius Days of The Swedish Chemical Society
Aula Magna, Stockholm University

> H.R.H. Princess Lilian, H.R.H. Prince Carl Philip
Attendance at The Royal Clubs’ party
The Grand Hôtel Winter Garden, Stockholm

[Josefine]

I was at the royal palace with a friend today to see some of the rooms in the palace
we did not have anything to do during the aftersoon so we went

but one of the gudies sais when we was visiting the guest apartment that there are 3 state visits to sweden planned during the year 2005

becouse it has to be planned so they can remove all things that belong when turisits visits the palace

3 state visits that is pretty good

[GrandDuchess]

I have edited my earlier post with the spring/summer programme 2005 for the Royal Family, here is what I just added:

Added to February:

# 25th Opening of The Year of the Vikings on Gotland (Crown Princess Victoria)

# 26th Attendance at the opening of the fair Equitana 2005, and opening of the Swedish section at the fair, Essen in Germany (Crown Princess Victoria)

Added to April:

# Opening of an exhibition at The Royal Academy for the Free Arts (Prince Carl Philip)

# 29th Opening of the Tycho Brahe Museum in Skåne (The Crown Princess)

Added to June:

# Bernadotte family get-together at Sofiero Palace in Skåne, celebrating 100 years (The Royal Family + relatives?)


You can find my post with the whole programme I posted here: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...4&postcount=63

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Josefine

one of the gudies sais when we was visiting the guest apartment that there are 3 state visits to sweden planned during the year 2005

Did you ask which the two other countries, except Lithuania, are who are paying a State Visit to Sweden?

[Josefine]

Originally Posted by GrandDuchess

Did you ask which the two other countries, except Lithuania, are who are paying a State Visit to Sweden?

no she said that the tour gides get the information that os state visits but not what countries and so its always

[Yennie]

# 29 Opening of the Tycho Brahe Museum in Skåne (The Crown Princess)

# Bernadotte family get-together at Sofiero Palace in Skåne, celebrating 100 years (The Royal Family + relatives?)

Do you have more information about this, GrandDuchess? Like date, place etc?