On September 28th Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway have been interviewed by Christiane Amanpour during her new talkshow at CNN in New York.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour invited the to her studio in New York, because she thinks that the Royal Couple will help to focus attention on some of today’s important issues.
The interview 12.5 minutes and will be shown in the program, “Amanpour” on CNN International on Friday, October 2nd. Queen Rania of Jordan also showed up at this program.

Host Christiane Amanpour told VG Nett :
“In this program we focus on the things many people do not know about royalty. The good work they do and the positive influence they have on many humanitarian issues. [...]“

She also said that she was really impressed by the Cp couple:
“They are very eloquent, and good ambassadors for their country.”

The CP couple talked about their main issues: Poverty, justice, dignity and Aids.
You can read more about this interview in this thread.

Her_Majesty Norwegian Royals HIV/AIDS, Humanitarian Efforts, Interview, Prince Haakon, Princess Mette-Marit, United States of America

During the last 2 days the Crown Princely Couple of Norway attended several events related to the “Young Leaders Summit 2009″ Conference.

Tuesday morning, 23-06-2009, Prince Haakon, Princess Mette-Marit, Environment and Development minister Erik Solheim and Andres Lekanger attended the AIDS Conference Young Leader Summit II at Losby Gods.
You can find a gallery here.

In the evening the Crown Princely couple attended the Aksept Open air concert held during the opening day in Oslo.

On Wednesday 24th of June the Royals hosted a reception at the royal yacht Norge.
Mette-Marit’s son Marius was also seen during this event.

Kongehuset.no has some nice links about the events:
You can watch the conference at YouTube and follow it on Twitter.
A nice gallery can be found at flickr.com.
More links (e.g. a link to a facebook page) can be found here:
Kongehuset.no

Here you can find the homepage of “Young leaders summit 2009″.

Her_Majesty Norwegian Royals HIV/AIDS, Marius Borg Høiby, Prince Haakon, Princess Mette-Marit

On Tuesday June 16th Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway started a campaign against prejudices against HIV in Oslo together with Roger Cassidy head of a HIV centre and the mayor of Oslo Fabian Stang.

On Saturday June 19th the Princess was present when environmental minister Erik Solheim opened the “Access to Life” photo exhibition in Oslo, which is an AIDS photoexhibition at the Stenersen Museum. You can see some of the photos of the exhibition here.

Later the day Mette-Marit attended an aids event for youth.

There are going to be a couple of events connected to the Crown princely’s couple work dealing with Aids this week.
On June 23rd the Crown Prince and Crown Princess will attend a reception in relation to the aids conference Young Leaders Summit II and the Aksept’s annual garden concert on the occasion of the aids conference Young Leaders Summit II.
On June 24th they will host a reception on board the Royal Yacht Norway on the occasion of the aids conference.

You can find a thread about MM and Haakon and HIV/Aids here.

You can read an article about Mette’s engagements dealing with HIV here.

Her_Majesty Norwegian Royals HIV/AIDS, Prince Haakon, Princess Mette-Marit

 Earlier today, Prince Friso and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau attend the 17th Annual AmsterdamDiner at the Heineken Music Hall.

At the gala, Friso and Mabel mingled with various people from the Dutch business and entertainment sectors. Wearing a floor-length, cap-sleeve dark green evening gown; Mabel chatted and posed for photos with Dutch designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, of label Viktor&Rolf (yes, the ones who designed the Bow Disaster of ‘04). The Princess’ sister, Nicoline Wisse-Smit, also attended.

The AmsterdamDiner, hosted by the Dutch Aids Foundation De Grote Onderneming, is an event that Friso and Mabel attend annually. The money raised at this year’s gala, from ticket sales and a silent auction, will go to LAASER, an organisation which aims to monitor HIV/AIDS resistance in the developing countries in Africa and Asia. LAASER is supported by the Aids Fond, which is one of the two main beneficiary’s of the AmsterdamDiner, the other being Stop Aids Now!’s Dutch branch.

According to the DGO website, the AmsterdamDiner is one of the Netherlands’ biggest fundraising galas; and since its first gala in 1992, has raised over 4,000,000€.

Click here to read more about Friso and Mabel’s current events.

JessRulz Dutch Royals HIV/AIDS, In-Laws, Prince Friso, Princess Mabel

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg finished her African visit with a trip to Kenya, where she spoke at the opening of “Diagnostic to Action: Microfinance in Africa” in Nairobi.

The Grand Duchess was in Burundi as UNICEF’s Eminent Advocate for Children, a post also held by Queen Rania of Jordan, but was in Kenya representing Luxembourg, as the patron of the Luxembourgish Appui au Développement Autonome/Support for Autonomous Development organisation.

She also performed on their behalf personal visits to female micro-entrepreneurs of Kenya.

Moving away from the area of economic assisstance, the Grand Duchess spent the last part of her trip ibeing shown around the DREAM (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDs and Malnutrition) Centre.

For more information, please see this thread.

For more information on the Grand Duchess’s visit to Burundi, please see this post.

alex001 Luxembourg Royals Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, Microfinance, Official Visit, UNICEF

Yesterday was the first day of Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg’s five-day visit to Kenya and Burundi. She is in Burundi from 31st May to 3rd June and Kenya on 4th and 5th June in her role as “Eminent Advocate for Children”, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the International Convention on Child Rights.

The Grand Duchess yesterday visited projects for the reintegration of child soldiers and young girls who become raped mothers. HRH also visited a prison in Bujumbura, to meet with imprisoned mothers and their children who have been born in prison and many other young people, including AIDS orphans and former child soldiers.

For more information, please see this thread.

alex001 Luxembourg Royals Burundi, Children, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, HIV/AIDS, Official Visit, UNESCO

 This afternoon, Princess Mathilde participated to a colloquium at the Belgian Senate, held in honour of Dr. Peter Piot, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and current Executive Director of the UNAIDS, the programme of the UN to fight AIDS. The colloquium was entitled “Peter Piot and the battle against AIDS”.

Princess Mathilde is a special representative of UNICEF/UNAIDS for orphans and other vulnerable children by cause of AIDS. She has worked together with Dr. Piot on numerous occasions. On her recent visit to Mexico, the Princess visited a special hospital for AIDS patients, and last year she recorded a message (in Spanish) directed at young Latinos, to urge them to use protection against AIDS.

For pictures of the event, see here for a Belga coverage.
For more information and a discussion of Princess Mathilde’s current events, see this thread.

LadyLeana Belgian Royals HIV/AIDS, Princess Mathilde, UNAIDS

After reading an article about the high rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Monaco, Princess Stephanie took action and has made it her mission to inform others about the disease through her foundation Fight Aids Monaco. Although better known as the rebel Princess, Princess Stephanie works internationally to fight the disease as a UN AIDS Special Representative.  She made a rare public appearance today in Carpentras, France as President of the Monaco organization to lay the corner stone for the ‘Maison de Vie’ – literally “House of Life” in English.

The ‘Maison de Vie,’ part of the Fight AIDS Monaco project, is being built to house people suffering from HIV/AIDS and is scheduled to be completed and functional within a year. The site will include two buildings with ample ground space for gardens and walking trails.   The addition will add living space for 28 adults and children to complement the Fight AIDS Monaco’s large office complex located at Villa Pasteur, 11 Bd Charles III in Monaco.

Audio of Radio Monaco interviews with the Princess on the topic are available here.

Information on Princess Stephanie’s current work with Fight Aids Monaco can be found in this thread.

Sg1Fan Monaco Royals Fight AIDS Monaco, HIV/AIDS, Patronage, Princess Stephanie

AMADE, (Association mondiale des Amis de l’Enfance) was founded in 1963 by Princess Grace of Monaco to help children throughout the world. HRH Princess Caroline was elected to the Presidency in 1993.  Fight Aids Monaco, began in 2004 from two smaller organizations after Princess Stephanie became alarmed about the high rate of AIDS infection in Monaco.

Today’s agreement continues an ambitious three year work agreement that continues to support both organization’s goals to help more than 830,000 Burundi orphans with basic services like medical care and prevention campaigns.

More photos and information can be found in this thread.

Sg1Fan Monaco Royals AMADE, Children, Fight AIDS Monaco, HIV/AIDS, Patronage, Princess Caroline, Princess Stephanie

 On 24 March, the third day in Mexico (the second day of official activities – just to keep things simple), Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde of Belgium attended the opening of the exposition “Belgica-Mexico, encuentro y reencuentro” at the Mexican Parliament, during which they took the time to talk to the children who were present. They met with Cesar Duarte, chairman of the chambers of deputy.

 Later, they also attended an official ceremony in the City Hall of Mexico City, where Prince Philippe received the Keys of the City from Federal district’s governor, Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon.

Later, Princess Mathilde visited the Condesa Clinic, which specializes in AIDS treatment. Crown Princes Mette-Marit of Norway has also visited that clinic during her visit to Mexico. The Princess was also invited to a working luncheon with INMUJERS/UNIFEM at the Ministry of Economy, after which she had a little time to recover from her busy morning.

In the evening, Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde attended the Belgium Walking Dinner at the Hotel InterCotinental. The Princess appeared in Royal blue, with a rather deep back line – much more revealing than we are used to see from her.

Totally off the record, for some reason, the official photographers seem very fond of capturing her shoes (like here and here, and this is only from Tuesday). This has made me realize, that she has been wearing almost 10 different pairs of shoes in those three days of tossing around Mexico City…

For more pictures, look here and here.
For a discussion of the visit, please see this thread.

LadyLeana Belgian Royals Economic Mission, HIV/AIDS, Mexico, Prince Philippe, Princess Mathilde