Victoria and the Press / Paparazzi
 

Victoria will work in Paris December 20

There will be a press conference November 12 at Centre Culturel Suedoise

Victoria and France
 

Expressen.se date November 12 2002
http://www.expressen.se/article.asp?id=129115



Please leave me alone

At the press conference in Paris Victoria asked to be left alone as she had been in Berlin.
She asked the Paparazzi to let her experience Paris and France in a good way. All do it's against their nature.

She will be involved in two projects and work as one in the project team.
And she will taking courses in French, she sys that she understand the lounges but she is no good at specking it.

Next year she will probably spend in Swede, but what she will do is not decided, She said that her studies will never end.

from aftonbladet November 13, 2002
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyhete...226103,00.html

from Expressen date November 13, 2002
http://www.expressen.se/article.asp?id=129177

[quote][b]Victoria i kärlekens huvudstad

PARIS. Kronprinsessan Victoria har flyttat till kärlekens huvudstad.
Här funderar hon på hur hennes framtida make kommer att vara.
Victoria säger till TV4:
Kommer den personen att trivas i situationen? Och med mig? Ännu värre!

Romantiska Paris är Victorias hemstad i sex veckor framöver.
Kärleken till staden började redan 1996 1997 då hon läste franska i Angers och gjorde flera utflykter till huvudstaden.
Det är en vacker stad. Den har så mycket att erbjuda, säger Victoria.
Hon mötte journalister på Svenska kulturhuset i Paris i går och ursäktade sig för att hon inte talade franska.
Min franska är inte så bra, jag förstår men jag har inte pratat språket på så länge.

Kärlek är viktigt
I en intervju med TV4:s Bo Holmström pratar Victoria om kärlek.
Kärlek är ju superviktigt, säger kronprinsessan.
Hon berättar om tankarna kring hennes framtida man:
Det är många frågor som kommer i huvudet, självklart. Det är inte bara om personen kommer att duga, säger Victoria till TV4.
En annan fråga Victoria funderar över är om hennes man kommer att trivas i rollen som prins bredvid Sveriges drottning.
Och med mig? Ännu värre, säger Victoria och skrattar.
Precis som i Berlin ska Victoria praktisera på svenska exportrådets kontor.

Lär sig om svenska företag
Hon ska vara som vilken praktikant som helst enligt kontorets chef Tomas Fellbom.
Huvudorsaken till att jag är här är att jag ska lära känna exportrådet, men också för att jag ska lära mig en massa om svenska företag och om den svenska marknaden, berättar Victoria.
Hon ska arbeta med två olika projekt om så vitt skilda saker som transporter i stadsmiljö och svensk kultur. Victoria ska delta i en tvådagarssatsning på Svenska kulturhuset för att lyfta fram svensk musik och design.
Jag är väldigt förtjust i modern, svensk design den är enkel och ren.
Victoria vill inte avslöja om hennes pojkvän Daniel Westling kommer på besök i Paris och betonar att hon är här för att arbeta inte för att roa sig.
På pressmötet vädjade hon också till paparazzofotograferna att lämna henne i fred under vistelsen i Paris.
Du är prinsessa och du är i Paris. Får det dig att tänka på prinsessan Diana?
Ja, jag tänker på det. Men inte mer än det, säger Victoria.

I don't think she has the style or beauty(not physical) of her sister madeline. She should ask some help from her little sister when she picks out those dresses, they are ok, but they are not nearly as pretty as the ones her sister wears. And in almost all of those pictures she looks snobby or stuck up, something you don't see in the pictures of her sister. I must say I like her sister better then her.

Victoria maybe doesn't enjoy being photographed quite as much as her sister. But when she is relaxed and feeling comfortable you can see the genuine, natural and broad smile on her face, that atleast I have never seen on Madeleine. And of course Victoria has bit more responsablities than Madde. My instinct is that Madeleine is the snottier and more stuck up of these two sisters. If neither one of them is that really.
I think they both dress beautifully in general. Victoria has to be more careful than Madde when it comes to what she wears. It's better to be classy and more tradional than begin to experiment with outfits imo in Victoria's position.
Thanks Josefine for all these beautiful pictures!

*Victoria about the paparazzis- new interview*

Tomorrow Victoria will talk about her feelings about the press and the paparazzis in a swedish tv show called "45 minuter"
The programme will be shown tomorrow at 22.00 on swedish tv 3.
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45 minuter

Kontroversiella reportage, intressanta och garanterat underhållande nedslag i en fantastisk verklighet. I sällskap av programledarna får vi ta del av fascinerande människoöden, de senaste trenderna, upptäcka exotiska platser och uppleva märkliga händelser.

Onsdag 24 september 22:00 - Paparazzi-fotografernas intensiva bevakning av svenska och utländska kändisar har nått en aldrig tidigare skådad omfattning. Många kändisar har fått vänja sig vid fotografer som bevakar dem dygnet runt och som försöker smyga så nära dem som möjligt. Några av våra mest kända svenskar har fått känna på denna många gånger kränkande behandling. En av dem är kronprinsessan Victoria. I en unik intervju berättar Victoria att hon ofta känner sig sårad och kränkt av fotografernas behandling. Ett exempel på fotografernas agerande är sommarens mycket intima och chockerande bilder på prinsessan Madeleine. - De skapar en känsla av osäkerhet och misstro, säger Hovets presschef Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg. En annan svensk som lever dygnet runt med fotografer i sin absoluta närhet är Ulrika Jonsson. När hon gifte sig på Värmdö i Stockholms skärgård i somras var det den största internationella kändishändelsen i Sverige på flera år. Horder av reportrar belägrade hennes hus. Helikoptrar hyrdes in och fotografer i båtar patrullerade längs stranden i jakten på den perfekta bilden. Darren och Matt är två av de paparazzi-fotografer som jagade Ulrika Jonsson i somras. De jobbar på Big Pictures, en bildbyrå i London. Vi följer dem under några hektiska dygn i somras. Vi ser dem smyga i buskarna, knacka på hos Ulrikas grannar och jaga henne med bil för att slutligen fånga henne på bild. - En paparazzi kan aldrig sluta sitt jobb, det är ett kall. Det är som en jägare som jagar ett villebråd, även om han skjutit 100 stycken så kan han inte sluta, säger Thomas Engström, fotograf i Los Angeles som på nära håll har följt paparazzi-fotografernas framfart.

Thanx Jen! I´ve thought she´s on holiday, because she has no official duties this week...but I fear this programme ist just on swedish TV and the channel has no web-TV :cry: Maybe you can report, what it was about/ what she said.

Another question: Do they just interview Victoria, or does she participate in a discussion with Ulrika Jonsson and the two paprazzis (which would be much more interesting), or is that just a reportage?
Another question to all: do you sometimes have a guilty conscience, because you are looking at all those paparazzi-photos? I mean without readers/royal watchers there would be no work for paparzzis.

She could be on holiday. It isn´t a live show. The interview was probably recorded some time ago.
I think its an interview, not an discussion, so the part with Ulrika Nilsson has nothing to do with Victoria, other than the paparazzi part.
But I don´t know for sure, we´ll have to wait and see...
Its true that the programme is on swedish channel 3. I dont think anyone outside of Sweden, exept from Danes and Norweigans perhaps?, will be able to watch to show.
I´ll try to make vidcaps and write a summary later tomorrow or on thursday.

And about that guilty conscience question:
well, I honestly dont know what to say. I think that all people, royals included, have the right to have private life.
But I also think that all attention "goes with the job" for the royals. They have lots of privileges(sp?) and lives a dream life, very much protected from every day sorrows...
Maybe thats the downside of beeing royal, have the press follow you all the time...
Hmm, I haven´t made up my mind about this yet...

How about you? And all you people in this forum?

Hm, yeah, that´s really not easy to answer...On the one hand you´re right, they get there money of the swedish people and have got a huge inherited fortune...but there are another people, which are rich and they aren´t in the press (at least, when they don´t want...Hilton-sisters, Trumps are another thing). And I think the royal families are always happy about professional pictures (e.g familiy-photos) or about pictures of their royal duties. So they promote their country with their face. And acutally from the "moral view" I would say, that should be all, and there shouldn´t be published photos of their free time/holidays etc.
But from another view, IMO the paparazzi-pictures are the most interesting pictures :woot:
Some years ago there where photos published of a naked Frederik of Danmark...and that´s for me over the limit (although he could wear shorts, but I hink the pics were made over a wall and he was at a private terrain). Fortunately there a less magazines, which publish such pictures ( I think the Fred-pics were also just published in a foreign country). Actually all countries-except GB (and there mags) treat their Royals mostly with respect. So I guess that paparazzis don´t find agencies, which buy too offending pictures or the pictures (e.g of a topless or naked Madeleine, Madeleine, why do I say Madeleine :innocent: ;) ) get dusty in the safes of "nice" journalists/editors.
So you see, I actually have no clear opinion. Without paparazzi-pictures it would be really boring, but IMO they shouldn´t overdo it.

BTW where are the "sommarens mycket intima och chockerande bilder på prinsessan Madeleine=summer´s many intimate and shocking pictures of princess Madeleine" (mentioned in the TV-show-accompanying text)?! IMO princess Madeleine had a very relaxing summer (no bikini-pictures etc.)

I do not think non-official photos should be taken of royal children.

Good question! I haven´t seen any "bikini pictures" of Madeleine from this summer at all....
Maybe she didn´t go to St Tropez this year?
The only paparazzi pictures I saw of her this summer was the ones of her and Jonas in Stockholm and a few pictures from a party at a friends house...

Well, I`ve seen them on this site, but of course I can´t find them now. It´s a tabloid ( for men) that came with a poster with pictures of Madeleine in bikini and lighter clothes, not naked. In the center it´s written something like " Prinsessan Madeline- kungahusets största tillgång" =" P. M. the royal households largests asset" ( or "most beatiful asset"). As I wrote there are no nude picture but I´m glad that it isn´t me on those pictures; imaging hanging as a poster on walls all over the country (if you don´t want that of course...)!

I think that the royals should tolerate a lot of pictures taken of them in official functions but papparazzi picture- no. But I look at them myself if I have a chance to (even if I don´t buy the tabloids) but I feel a bit guilty and my boyfriend thinks that I´m a hypocrite by doing so since I condemn the papparazzis. :innocent:

Yes, I saw that poster. But all pictures were old, from 2000. I ment new, as in taken this summer.... anyone?

I think we all do. I look at pictures like that and even if I thinks its wrong to spy on peple I cant help buying the magazines with the pictures.
And I think that, like a wrote before, it´s a part of the "royal life"...

and I must admit I like seeing new pictures of Madeleine and Victoria out in private and see for ex. what they are wearing...

I want to reply to the discuss here... :)

I really agree that the royal children should have their own private life, including boy-/girlfriends. But "normal" people like us are very intrested in what kind of life they líve, and that's a part of bein an official person.

And of course there are lots of pictures that has gone over some kind of limit, but who decide that limit?? The journalist? The Royal Court? It's a tought question...

@Yennie
How was the interview? Could you please make a little report :flower: ?

we are on part 4 now, but don´t stop posting your news, pictures, Questions and thought for that….


Does she have duties this week?

No, she has had no duties at all this week and she does not have any for the few remaining days of this week.