Haakon and Mette-Marit current events: April 2007 -

[azile]

Welcome to Haakon and Mette-Marit current events part 19. You will find the previous thread here.

Happy Posting!

[Larzen]

Before Haakon went to South Korea he attended the marking of Asker as Norway's third fairtrade municipality. Asker is where SKaugum is located

small picture and article in norwegian from the homepage of Asker
Asker sertifisert som Fairtrade-kommune - Asker Internett

On Saturday Mette-Marit will be Godmother of Hurtigrutens new explorership Fram (which is also what King Haralds sailboats are called) Hurtigruten is very famous in NOrway and arranges beautiful cruises along the coast from Bergen and to the North. This new ship will also go to Greenland and is specialising on Polar cruises. Hurtigruten is arranging a huge event with some of Norways most famous artists at the Akershus dock to mark the christening May 19 13.00

Hurtigruten ASA - Forsidekampanjer

But I guess now they are ironing their national costumes shirts and shining their shoes (or more likely someone does it for them ) and hope for nice weather tomorrow, they will appear outside Skaugum around 8-8.30 to greet the local parade before they move to the Palace for a quick change and to watch the big parade in the center

[Larzen]

The whole Crown Prince Family will take part when the full rigged ship Sørladet celebrates 80 years after an extensive renavation, Mettte-Marit is protector for the ship. The Mayor of Kristiansand says it is probable that the whole family will come for the celebration on june 27th
Mette-Marit feirer "Sørlandet" - Sørlandet - NRK Nyheter

From 26-28 August Haakon and Mette-Marit will make a county trip to Troms, it is the municipalities in the most nothern part of the county that will get a royal visit, more specifically Kvænangen, Skjervøy, Karlsøy, Kåfjord, Lyngen and Storfjord. Troms is the second most nothern county of Norway.
kongehuset.no - Fylkestur

Mette-Marit will also take part in Ketil Moes memorial walk in the Kristiansand Zoo August 30th, 3 time Olympic speed skating winner JOhan Olav Koss is also comming, they both attended back in 2003 when Mette-MArit was pregnant with Ingrid ALexandra
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/sorlandet/1.315280

[crm2317]

Yay the family will be out on June 27th! Although i am holiday when this happens but I have something to look forward to when I come home. Plus I am missing Lillepigen's christening too.

[marian]

Here the prince in a ceremony

ANP Beeldbank

[Larzen]

YEsterday Mette-Marit opened the exhibition "Melting Ice a hot topic?" in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Center, there was also an outdoor concert with speeches by Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai
scoll down for pciture series
Side 2
and info in norwegian and pic from kongehuset
kongehuset.no - Kronprinsessen åpnet utstilling

Today Haakon met with Mr. France Cukjati, President of the National Assembly of Slovenia

And At 18.00 Mette-Marit will visit a dance group for immigrant women at Hauketo

[marian]

The prince is here in a ceremony in this page

100 år i tjeneste - Mellom himmel og jord - NRK

[Larzen]

Crown Prince Haakon at the "Boy conference" in Asker today. the conference is for boys in 10th grade and their fathers. The subject is the mental health of boys and studies that shows that many boys dont tell people when something is wrong and that it is very important for them to appear maskulin at a very young age to be respected or something to that effect

article and pic - Du er en rollemodell

[marian]

Crown Prince Haakon of Norway attended the marking of the 164th birthday anniversary of the composer Edvard Grieg at the National Library in Oslo, Norway, June15, 2007 Foto: Bjorn Sigurdson rown Prince Haakon of Norway attended the marking of the 164th birthday anniversary of the composer Edvard Grieg at the National Library in Oslo, Norway, June15, 2007 Foto: Bjorn Sigurdson http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8676/5828931vi0.jpg

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8297/5828927hr7.jpg

[Vanesa]

Crownprince Haakon also looks wonderful. He has a "mature look" that fits him a lot. He is no more "the young man" but the man. I can see in his face the Norwege future King.

Vanesa.

[marian]

I think that he is making a good job. One day, he willbe a good king.

[carlota]

haakon and mette marit were among the guests for prince pavlos' 40th birthday party in london. they celebrated it with an angels and demons party (white and red dresses) at their house in chelsea, and mette marit dressed as an angel. i think she looked adorable!

some pictures of the party at hola: Galerías de imágenes

(haakon and mette marit are in picture number 4)

[Larzen]

Originally Posted by Larzen

The whole Crown Prince Family will take part when the full rigged ship Sørladet celebrates 80 years after an extensive renavation, Mettte-Marit is protector for the ship. The Mayor of Kristiansand says it is probable that the whole family will come for the celebration on june 27th
Mette-Marit feirer "Sørlandet" - Sørlandet - NRK Nyheter

Seems the Mayor was wrong, kongehuset and the countyman both says she is comming alone. She will board the ship at 14.00 and take part in a 3 hour long trip outside Kristiansand for especially invited guests to celebrate the 80 anniversary of the ship.
FM Vest-Agder - Hovedside

The Full-Rigged Ship Sorlandet Non-Profit Foundation

[SofieN]

M-M is on holiday in her native town Kristiansand, and didn`t want to talk to the local paper. Side 2

[Larzen]

Originally Posted by Larzen

Seems the Mayor was wrong, kongehuset and the countyman both says she is comming alone. She will board the ship at 14.00 and take part in a 3 hour long trip outside Kristiansand for especially invited guests to celebrate the 80 anniversary of the ship.
FM Vest-Agder - Hovedside

The Full-Rigged Ship Sorlandet Non-Profit Foundation

Pics
Fvn.no: Mette-Marit tok springdansen med «Sørlandet»
Mette-Marit på Sørlandet - Sørlandet - NRK Nyheter
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel...1182967187.jpg

[carlota]

Originally Posted by SofieN

M-M is on holiday in her native town Kristiansand, and didn`t want to talk to the local paper. Side 2

what a nice picture of mette marit, ingrid and marius. ingrid and marius seem to have grown up so much! how come mm didn't want to talk to the local paper?

it's also nice to see her at the ship anniversary!

[rominet09]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I love this kind of natural pix
Thank you for posting

[dazzling]

Originally Posted by SofieN

M-M is on holiday in her native town Kristiansand, and didn`t want to talk to the local paper. Side 2

Well, i guess if your on holiday you expect not to have the press in your face. Dont they get enought when royals are on duty? guess not..
Thanks for the picture, nice to see the children out & about sometimes on non-official outings

[dazzling]

Originally Posted by Larzen

Pics
Fvn.no: Mette-Marit tok springdansen med «Sørlandet»
Mette-Marit på Sørlandet - Sørlandet - NRK Nyheter
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel...1182967187.jpg

she looks good in the pictures, good she went along, thanks for posting. Was it a mistake or more of a last minuted decision

[Larzen]

I guess the mayor misunderstood or they changed their minds, her attendance was long planned.
From Kongehuset pic and info in norwegian
kongehuset.no - Kronprinsessen feiret "Sørlandet"

Haakon today
The Crown Prince attends the European Graduate Programme Competition 2007, Oslo (10.00).
In the two last pictures he is talking to the Norwegian partisipants who has created a carry-freezer that runs on solar power
http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?..._122_946lo.jpg
http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_426lo.jpg
http://img163.imagevenue.com/img.php...122_1199lo.jpg


28.06.2007
The Crown Prince grants representatives of the bow corps Nygaards Bataljon audience on the occation of the Bataljon's 150 years anniversary (12:00).
-no pics-

Seems the King is out of the country because Haakon will preside the last state council before the vacation tomorrow


The family was in Kristiansand this weekend, they visited Marit Tjessem and Mette-Marits sister Kristin, They also attended the wedding of one of Mette-Marits childhood friend Hege Aasgaard to Espen Hilde. Mette-Marit wore her national costume from Vest Agder (the one from national day 2005)
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6841/scan0058rm5.jpg