A Princess is Born-exhibition '05
 

Crown Prince Haakon attended the opening of Stortinget today
Pictures here

Why is choosing the right stockings so difficult, if in doubt choose none shiny nude ones.

To day Mette-Marit opened the exhibition ”A Princess is born” at the International Museum of Children’s Art” the exhibition consists of greetings, paintings and gifts Norwegian children sent to the Palace when Princess Ingrid Alexandra was born. The Museum was allowed in the Palace Archives to find items to include in the exhibition. The exhibition will be shown until July 2006 and shows the work of 75 children
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/kongelig/article471685.ece

Pictures from www.seegerpress.de
The jacket does not fit at all and looks akward. The red colour looks good on her though

The teddybear: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...hmentid=202834 was a gift to bring home to Ingrid Alexandra. :p

Do you think she wants it, she seems awfully attached to the one she already has;)

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I love her outfit. especially the gold chain. it goes so well with her burgundy coat.

What a great idea, I like it very much! And what an honour for the children who can see their gifts at this exhibition! A very cute idea indeed! Crown Princess Mette-Marit looks great again, happy and in harmony with herself! :)

What a neat idea for an exhibit! Mette-Marit looks great in red! How cool must it be for the kids whose gifts are part of the exhibition!

Thanks for all the pictures! She look great! I Love her jacket and the red colour.

Mette-Marit on the cover of Se og Hör from www.shf.no (Why is Idol-winner Jorun Stiansen sooo mad at MM? and the pregnant Aqua-Lenes daugther India is sooo cute on the picture of her)

An article on the A Princess is born exhibition
 

Proud of Princess drawings
When Princess Ingrid Alexandra was born, there came thousands of greetings – cards, drawings, poems and gifts – to the Palace from children through-out the country. 75 of the contributions have gotten a spot in the exhibition ”A Princess is born”.

“A really nice exhibition” said the main person’s mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, when she opened the exhibition at the Children’s art museum in Oslo, Tuesday morning. She recogniced a lot of the drawings and things that are lent from the Palace archives and that now has a spot at the exhibition. “It is very nice to see that one can show some of the nice drawings that have come to the Palace every day” she added. And on a quetion on how the shape was nowadays, one and a half month before due date, the answer came quick and smiling; “Really well!”

Flowers and a teddy
Five years old Daniel Goldin, the grand son of the founder, got the honour to present the flowers to the Crown Princess and a stuffed animal to Princess Ingrid Alexandra, which is too small to attend exhibition openings. It is Alla and Rafael Goldin who in their days founded the Children’s art museum in Oslo, where the daughter Angela Goldin is the manager today. “It is an amazing experience to be alowed to pick drawings and other things from the Palace archives to this exhibition. This is greetings from the generation who looks farward to having Ingrid Alexandra as their Queen. The material also have great historical value and will be taken good care of, so that future generations can see what the children found important when the country’s first female heir to the throne in modern times was born” says Angela Goldin.

The exhibition will last untill July next year.

SFO and nurseries (SFO is after school activities)
It isn’t only individuals who sends their greetings to Princess Ingrid Alexandra. Also school classes, SFOs and nurseries have contributed greatly to the exhibtition. Amongst others there is a nice greeting with photos from the nursery Queen Mauds Memory in Trondheim. “Adresseavisen visited us when you were born because we have such a nice name on our nursery” it read in the greeting from Trondheim. There is alson no doubt that the exhibition has an extreme high princess factor – pink dresses and princess crowns were popular motifs on the framed drawings.


http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=293055 My translation

mette marit looked wonderful today. hope she continues in that line. loved the combination of red coat-black outfit and the detail of the collar...
it's a pity we couldn't see new pics of ingrid today though...

"Why is Idol-winner Jorun Stiansen sooo mad at MM?"

what does "her er det noe som er sinnsikt galt" mean? maybe that can help us to guess... :)

"Her er det noe som er sinnsykt galt" that don't say why she is mad at her.. It means "Here is it somthing witch is totaly wrong/bad".

Jorun Stiansen (the winner of Norwegian Idol) is the face of the Norwegian animal protection and think it is wrong of Mette-Marit to wear fur. (Or anyone else but saying "Dont wear fur" wont get a B-list celebrety on the cover of Se og Hør) The palace refuse to comment (And frankly I dont think thy loose sleep over what a reality celebrety think) Queen Sonja wears much more fur than Mette-Mairt but I guess she wont get a cover either.

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/k...icle471650.ece

A selection from http://www.royalportraits.nl/ChildrensArtMuseum.htm

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http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/6...68718jp.th.jpghttp://img422.imageshack.us/img422/4...68577tj.th.jpghttp://img422.imageshack.us/img422/1...68022xs.th.jpghttp://img422.imageshack.us/img422/6...69654iz.th.jpg

Suppose it is also a case of Jorun not having got enough time on the front pages of magazines lately...

I think the CP has a smile that lights up a room!

I agree about the color. Here in the US those sweater jackets are quite popular for cold weather.They are more casual wear than formal though. Over all the look is very young and chic, much better than the look from her recent outings.

I love her Prada purse.

Another article on CP Mette-Marit
 

Enough to feed Mette-Marit
(this headline is a wordplay, as Mette in addition to being a name also is a verb describing the feeling when you have eaten and aren’t hungry anymore - untranslateable)

The Crown Princess wasn’t asked twice when she got a cake put infront of her on Monday. Today she opens an art exhibiton on behalf of Ingrid Alexandra.

The pregnant Crown Princess have been struggling with her health recently. But on Monday she arranged a gathering to mark the World Day of Mental Health. The marking celebrated it’s 20th anniversary, and it was therefore served a cake with 20 candles on. Mette-Marit was an obvious guest to blow out the candles. If she followed it up by wishing for something, the story doesn’t tell.

Exhibition
Today Mette-Marit will be present during the opening of the exhibition “A Princess is born” at the Children’s art museum. “It consists of drawings, greetings, postcards and gifts that Norwegian children have sent from all over the country in connection to Ingrid Alexandras birth and christening. We have been alowed to go through the Palace archives and found contributions that the Palace have recieved and presents it at the exhibition” says manager at the museum, Angela Goldin, to Side2.

So that the children themselves shall have the chance to see the exhibition, it will be shown untill July next year. Totally, there is shown 75 contributions by children from all of Norway.

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/kongelig/article471685.ece My translation

It talks about much the same as the article from VG, but also mentiones some other things that CP Mette-Marit finds important, namely mental health.

The other story was about Mette-Marit that show her “bullet stomach”, and wear a top in a black stretch fabric that Jordan, Britney Spears, Penny Lancaster and Jennifer Gardner also has used.

The major thing is that the top was transparent and everybody could see her growing stomach and that her navel was pointed outward as usual for pregnant women.

She had also a Prade purse in brown leather that costs about 2500 US Dollar.

I deplore the bad quality of the scan, but my scanner isn’t too good.

Oh the scan is fine, I appreciate you scanning the article.

It is a bit sad when the press has to talk about a bellybutton, with such powerful flashes on the camera's it is only to be expected that we can see through the tight, black top.

In everyday life nobody would have noticed it.

I would hate the press talking about how much I had spent on clothes, Princess Anne gets slated for wearing clothes she wore in the past. You can;t win really.

I'm absolutely sure that Se og Hor has manipilated with the picture and made here belly more transparent than is was in real life, with the help of photoshop. It is an easy job:)

In any way, the pictures of the same occasion posted here don't reveal any bellybutton. I doubt that even Mette-Marit (no offense intended) would wear a transparent top at an official function.