The Royal Family's Current Events - Part 5 (December 2005 - March 2006)

[Zonk]

Lena...I LOVE YOUR AVATAR :)

[Yennie]

Originally Posted by Larzen

Here is a picture of the royal family in church on christmas eve 2005, picture by Patrik Østerberg scanned from Norwegian Se og Hør

Thanks for posting the photo, Larzen!
Nice to see them attend church at christmas again... I think they used to do so every christmas when the children were young

[GrandDuchess]

Here are two more pictures from the Royal Family's attendance at the church service on Christmas Day (according to Svensk Dagbladet is was on the 25th). The pictures are also by Patrik Österberg, scanned from the current issue of Svensk Damtidning.


Princess Christina & husband Tord


Patrick Sommerlath and Prince Carl Philip

It's a tradition for the Royal Family to attend church during Christmas, but normally we don't get to see any pictures, so it's wonderful that we get a few pictures 2005 - I hope it continues in the future too!

Summary from Svensk Damtidning (the Royal Christmas & royals on holiday in Africa)

Svensk Damtidning writes that the Royal Family celebrated their normal traditional Christmas at Drottningholms Palace, joined by Princess Lilian, Princess Christina and her family as well as the Queen’s newphew Patrick Sommerlath.

On Christmas Eve they celebrated in the palace with a lot of good food, and on the morning of Christmas Day they attended the mass in the Drottningholms Palace Chapel, where Prince Carl Philip jokingly pretended to conduct the choir that was performing during the service. On Boxing Day the Royal Family gathered at Princess Christina and her husband’s home Villa Beylon on the Ulriksdal Palace Estate, and on the same day the Royal Couple and the Crown Princess also attended the tsunami memorial at the Skansen Open Air Museum in Stockholm.

After Christmas, the Queen travelled to Germany to visit her brother Jörg Sommerlath who has been suffering from cancer.

After the Christmas days, the King and Queen together with Prince Carl Philip and his girlfriend Emma and Princess Madeleine and her boyfriend Jonas Bergström travelled to Kenya, joining a large group of friend who were already there (something that has become a tradition for the Royal Family, a far away trip with friends, like the cruise in 2003). The Queen flew directly from Germany. Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling did not come with them, they had other plans.

According to the magazine the trip goes to Kinondo Kwetu, an exclusive “hide away” south of Mombasa. It’s an East African paradise with white sand beaches and water warm from the sun. The place where they are staying is situated not too far away from places like the Shimba Hill National Park and the Kilimanjaro mountains. According to the magazine the royals will also visit Lamu, a city north of Mombasa bordering to Somalia.

[Gita]

Does anyone know what Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling are doing instead of joining the other members of the Royal Family in Africa? Thanks, Gita.

[ursulajohanna]

GrandDuchess, thanks for the information about Christmas and holiday in Kenya.
I hope, we will see some official pictures as 2003 by there holiday in Thailand.
The crown princess was last year-change (2004/2005) in Kenya!

[Lena]

Originally Posted by GrandDuchess

According to the magazine goes to Kinondo Kwetu, an exclusive “hide away” south of Mombasa. It’s an East African paradise with white sand beaches and water warm from the sun. The place where they are staying is situated not too far away from places like the Shimba Hill National Park and the Kilimanjaro mountains. According to the magazine the royals will also visit Lamu, a city north of Mombasa bordering to Somalia.

Thank you GrandDuchess for the summary.
Isn´t amazing, how they know all this stuff, but don´t care to get pics?! Which other Royal family could experience the same?? I would say no one. Even the Royal Family from little (population-wise) Norway is regularly found abroad.

Just like Gita I wonder, where Daniel & Victoria are and why they didn´t join them. One really can´t say, that the king and Daniel seem to spend a lot of time with each other.

[ursulajohanna]

Lena, I think Victoria has stay at Sweden when the king is out of the country.

Perhaps, Victoria is in Storlien or other places in Sweden.

[purple_platinum]

Victoria & Daniel visited Nairobi, Kenya during their christmas holiday last year, right?
perhaps they decided to do something else this year..
but, yeah, i do hope we get pictures of the royal family, especially with Emma & Jonas.

[Lena]

Originally Posted by ursulajohanna

Lena, I think Victoria has stay at Sweden when the king is out of the country.

Perhaps, Victoria is in Storlien or other places in Sweden.

Yes, that´s what I´ve thought too. But I´m unsure, since this law can be "stretched" quite a lot. Several times the whole Royal family was abroad. Also on holiday and also far away (e.g. in Mauritius in 1998)
Well, maybe the speaker of the parliament is abroad as well and can´t act as regent.
Personally I think this law is ridiculous. Not at least, because it can´t and isn´t always 100% working. The world became little in the past decades. You can go from A to Z easily. You just need to WANT it (Vickan+Kenya+last year )
Even more ridiculous it gets, when it´s seen as real duty. E.g. the danish court marked last december every single day in the calendar, when Frederik was regent

I might be wrong, but I guess Victoria and Daniel are in Sweden. In the beginning of February Daniel´s super-gym starts and I guess he is involved in realisation.

Or maybe they plan their engagement (highly unlikely of course)

[Yennie]

After christmas the royal family went on holiday to Kenya. Here are the first photos from the trip!

looks like they had fun :)



from facetoface


sadly no photos of Carl Philip and Madeleine... but perhaps there will be in a few days!

Victoria and Daniel are at home in Sweden. Yesterday the attended the wedding of one of Victorias old schoolmates Eric Waters-Falk.

http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=501847

[Gita]

Thanks so much for posting them Yennie! The King and Queen looked as if they had loads of fun!!! :)

[SusanneSNS]

Many thanks from me, too, Yennie! The pictures are just great. The King and Queen look so relaxed. I'm sure they enjoyed their holiday.

[ursulajohanna]

Yennie, many thanks for the lovely pictures from the king and queen. They looks happy and relaxed at the holiday. (But I cann't made the pics bigger, tecnical problem?)

[rosalyn]

Does anybody know the dates they were in kenya? I believe they were still in Sweden on the 26th for the Tsunami.

[Yennie]

Originally Posted by rosalyn

Does anybody know the dates they were in kenya? I believe they were still in Sweden on the 26th for the Tsunami.

Yes they were still in Sweden on the 26th. Perhaps they left the day after?? I belive they pictures were taken around new years.

ursulahjohannna: if you click on the pics they will open in a new window and be enlarged

[ursulajohanna]

Yennie, thanks It's now okay!

Rosalyn, the pictures from Kenya were taken at friday, 6th January 2006 by Kinando Kwetu Regatta at beach of south Kenya!

[purple_platinum]

thanks Yennie for posting the photos of king & queen in kenya..

while waiting for pictures of madeleine & carl philip, let see some more of king & queen in kenya (also courtesy of facetoface)...

[purple_platinum]

last ones from facetoface