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The year 2005 is the anniversary of many things. For Norwegians it first and foremost marks that Norway has been a country of its own for a century. But it also marks the 100th year anniversary for the Norwegian royal family.

Throughout the year we aim to give you a special retelling of the Norwegian royal history, and of current events. We shall bring you a timeline. We shall bring you the story of how Norway gained its independence. And last, but not least, we shall bring you the biographies of the Royal family.

We shall start with Queen Maud in January and then move on chronologically with King Haakon, etc. until we reach January, again, and the youngest members of the family.

We would like to encourage you all to participate in this project, and post pictures, anecdotes and comments along the way. However, we shall try to keep some order on it all, in this thread at least, and would like to request that you save the pictures of the individual royals until we have reached “their” month. That means that current photographs of Princess Ingrid Alexandra do not belong in this thread until December, at least.

This is a historical thread and not a current events thread. Special events that will take place during the year 2005 will get their own threads, and we are certain that there will be many such occasions that will make 'Watching of the Royal Norwegians' extra interesting next year.

We hope that you all have fun, and don’t forget to post pictures during the year, if you have some.

Mandy and Norwegianne.
Norwegian Forum Moderators