I love the photos released this year, one can really see she has grown. I’ve always thought she looked more like her father, and I still do, but this is the first time I’ve thought she looks like her mother a great deal as well. The press has shown pictures of the Crown Prince when he was six along side these new ones of the Princess; and they do resemble each other a lot.
The court didn’t release a video this year, and my own little theory on that is: The videos was very effective in showing the public how much Princess Ingrid Alexandra had grown and since we so rarely got to see for any length of time it was great to get these short videos to watch and get a sense of who this little girl is. Now as she is older she will partake more in official duties and be seen with her parents and grandparents more, so these videos won’t be as much needed. We’ve already seen this is small manner, she attended her first representation last year with Crown Princess Mette-Marit at the environmental parade and she opened the new children pages of the royal website with the King. As she is seen more and more outside of all the yearly photo-shoots and celebrations of the Norwegian national day the public will watch her grow up much more “hands-on” than earlier.