Norway's National Day, May 17: 2003 - 2023

[melina premiere]

In this video,


Kongefamilien hilser på rekordtog - 17. mai - VG


This Young boy seemed a little agitated, Ingrid Alexandra tried to calm him dow, it is a bad education, a 10 years boy can stay quiet during two minites .


Ingrid Alexandra is a very beautiful Young girl she seems quiet .

[amaryllus]

Just an antsy little boy and Big sister who probably alternatively looks out for him and bosses him. But it is not common at all for older Royal children to fidget and squirm like that It's true. The nose picking was slot worse.

[Countessmeout]

Originally Posted by wartenberg7

Yes, all that is perfectly known. Still he attends official events from time to time (National days, King´s jubilee, official birthdays...).
It was expected he wouldn´t be with the family this time (just like ML in 1989 and Haakon in 1992), but have been seen and photographed with their classmates in the crowd.

The point being that he isn't royal. The media would have sought out Haakon and ML to get pictures of them at the event. Marius is able to get away with riding on the bus and not getting snapped, because he isn't royal. I am sure as he gets older we will see less of him at events, not because he isnt included, but because he has his own life and no desire to take part. I am sure he will still be active in the family, he seems close to his stepfather and even Haakon's parents, but more behind the scenes as time goes on.

[amaryllus]

Exactly! Haakon got another son out of the marriage but Norway did not get another Prince:) He can do what he wants as far as his private life basically and has no responsibility to the RF other than not to cause scandal for them.

[wartenberg7]

He can do what he wants to do, still the media is interested in him like some kind of a celebrity!
Thinking he can ride with his friends on that bus and nobody cares is a bit naive...

[Countessmeout]

If the media had cared about a photo they would have got one, before or after the bus. Considering they didn't, there wasn't much demand for one.

[wartenberg7]

Originally Posted by Countessmeout

If the media had cared about a photo they would have got one, before or after the bus. Considering they didn't, there wasn't much demand for one.

Strange... You mean the media lost its interest since he was confirmed 4 years ago..?!
So I guess the article and filmed report of Marius in that party bus beforehand was a misunderstanding...?
http://www.tv2.no/v/1037813/

[ROYAL NORWAY]

https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.13469339

Extra security measures on May 17. Oslo municipality and the police will collaborate on additional security measures in connection with the May 17 celebrations, according to the Governing Mayor of Oslo Raymond Johansen, writes Aftenposten. PST has previously considered it as "possible" that Norway may be exposed to terror in 2017.

[eya]

At the celebrations starting with the CP family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRUVYkE6KUc

http://imbo.vgc.no/users/vgno/images...09494913ad6285
http://imbo.vgc.no/users/vgno/images...cf8c0b6ec805e1

Gallery

http://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?z...2017%20Skaugum

And the Royal Family in the Palace

http://dbstatic.no/67605618.jpg?imag...024&height=615

[iceflower]

.

More pics of today's festive celebration can be found here:




** ppe gallery 2 **


** kongehuset.no: Gratulerer med dagen! ** translation **


** gettyimages: NOR: Norwegian Royals Attend The Children's Parade in Asker **


** dailymail: Norway's royals step out in traditional costume to celebrate national day - and even the family DOGS get dressed up for the occasion! **

[rominet09]

Lovely pix and it looks like Haakon is growing his beard again !

[HereditaryPrincess]

Those were great photos, as per usual, of the NRF celebrating National Day. Ingrid Alexandra and Sverre Magnus look quite grown up! Ingrid Alexandra is blossoming into a pretty young lady, and I'm starting to see more of Mette-Marit in her now. It felt strange not to see Marius with the family, the red carpet seemed empty without him there - but as long as he's enjoying life as a private citizen, that's the main thing.

[Countessmeout]

Can't believe I missed national day. Especially since one of my closest friends is norweigan and always posts pictures of her and her son in Norwegian sweaters. I saw this years pic and never clicked.

Love unlike Sweden, the royal men have to wear costumes too

Good idea having Sverre hold the dogs. Keeps him busy.

Both kids looking so grown up. Nice to see the pictures

[iceflower]

.

Here's another nice gallery of this year's celebration, click on Plein Ecran below the photos to get larger versions:



** pm: Franche rigolade au balcon pour Mette-Marit et Sonja **

[polyesco]

8 years of yawning at National Day by Sverre-Magnus
Familia Real de Noruega: Críticas al hijo de Mette-Marit: 8 bostezos en 8 Fiestas Nacionales. Fotogalerías de Casas Reales

[Muhler]

Originally Posted by polyesco

8 years of yawning at National Day by Sverre-Magnus
Familia Real de Noruega: Críticas al hijo de Mette-Marit: 8 bostezos en 8 Fiestas Nacionales. Fotogalerías de Casas Reales

It's not cute anymore!

[sm1939]

Originally Posted by Muhler

It's not cute anymore!

I agree with you its not cute anymore , if he doesn't want to be there let him go with his school and have 17th May with his class mates.

[ROYAL NORWAY]

Originally Posted by sm1939

I agree with you its not cute anymore , if he doesn't want to be there let him go with his school and have 17th May with his class mates.

That is never ever going to happen. Prince Sverre Magnus is only eleven and I think he does a great job of standing for hours at the Skaugum/Palace balcony.

Watch the Skaugum event here: (The dogs are adorable)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyiLHftX3Kc

I was in Oslo and although it was raining a bit, there were thousands of people at Karl Johans gate.

Watch the royal family on the balcony here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZHs54eyw3Q

The NRK/TV2 broadcasts were of course much better than that YouTube crap from Dagbladet.

NRK had two live broadcasts - one from around the country (including Oslo) on NRK1 who lasted from 07:50 AM to 14:00 PM and one from Oslo alone on NRK2 who lasted from from 10:20 AM to 14:00 PM. NRK1 broadcasted highlights from the day from 19:30 PM to 21:00 PM.

This is the Oslo broadcast - see when His Majesty The King and other members of royal family comes out on the balcony at 07:40:
Part 1: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/gratulerer-m...817/17-05-2017

See when His Majesty The King and other members of royal family leave the balcony at 42:00:
Part 4: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/gratulerer-m...117/17-05-2017

NRK1 also sent this video several times during the day:
https://www.facebook.com/NRK/videos/1452347741506120/
A video where we see pictures of norwegians who are celebrating while we hear a song from the hip-hop group Klovner I Kamp and some word from Norway's beloved, amazing, caring, warm and inclusive monarch (Yes I love him).

[ROYAL NORWAY]

We are approaching May 17th again, so here are some information about the royal part of the celebrations, the security measures and the NRK coverage:

Celebrating May 17th - The Royal House of Norway

It was King Haakon and Queen Maud who introduced the custom of greeting the children’s parade from the Palace balcony in 1906. The custom has been upheld ever since. The only exceptions were in 1910, when the Royal Family was in England for the funeral of Queen Maud’s father, King Edward VII, and during World War II from 1940 to1944.

By 17 May 1945 Crown Prince Olav had returned from London, where he had lived in exile during the war years. That year he was in position on the Palace balcony to greet the 202,000 schoolchildren, who were once again allowed to celebrate 17 May after five years of occupation.

--------------------

Higher security on the 17th of May - Norway Today

Similarly to last year, the police will put in place a number of security measures in Oslo and several other cities in connection with children’s marches on the 17th of May.

Despite the fact that the PST estimates that the threat level is lower than last year,the Oslo police also put in additional safety measures this year.

“We want to use busses and police cars around the children’s march, and you will see armed police,” said Martin Strand, chief executive officer in Oslo Police District to TV 2.

--------------------

The NRK journalist Noman Mubashir with Pakistani background has been chosen as the main commentator for NRK's May 17th broadcast, which has led to some hatred in social media:
Noman Mubashir: – Trist at noen ikke liker å se nordmenn med en annen hudfarge på TV - NRK - Translation

From the article:

"There is a certain group of people in Norway who are not so fond of people with a different skin color - who feel Norwegian and who are on television. And at least not on May 17th. I think it's sad because I'm born and raised here, and I feel Norwegian," said Mubashir in an interview with Fritimen (radio program).

More from the article:

''I was born in Norway by Pakistani parents. I have grown up in a Muslim home and I'm gay,'' he says.

In 2016, King Harald held a speech, which led Mubashir to say (publicly) that he is gay. The speech also received attention outside Norway's borders.

"Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other,'' was some of what the King said in his speech.

"I was so glad that he included all my three identities in this speech. If you are a boy who likes boys, if you believe in Allah or if you have Pakistani parents, then you are Norwegian,'' says Mubashir.

Read the King's speech here:
Garden party in the Palace Park: welcoming speech - The Royal House of Norway

Three points from me:
1. Noman Mubashir is one of my favourite journalists, so I couldn't be more pleased.
2. He has worked at NRK for over 20 years (since he was 22) and has led a number of programmes.
3. And as both the King, politicians from all parties in the Storting (with the exception of the Right-winged Progress Party), commentators on both sides and the general public (through polls) have said several times, Norway is a multicultural society.

--------------------

But it's not sure he gets any program to cover, anyway.

NTB article - poorly translated by InfoGlitz: Tuesday there may be NRK strikes - InfoGlitz

The Norwegian Journalist Team (NJ) is ready to strike 1,700 newsrooms, especially journalists, if no agreement is reached on this year's payroll. In addition, the LO state has announced a strike withdrawal for 614 of its members in NRK, unless the negotiator Spekter offers an offer that is significantly better than the offer on the table, since the mediation was on Monday morning.

The deadline for the agreement It's about midnight to Tuesday, but it's not unusual for such negotiations to take place for several hours in overtime, when the parties still have something to discuss and the mediator sees opportunities for an agreement, even if the deadline has expired.

Strike could possibly also refer to the coverage of May 17 on NRK.

From me: Dennis Vareide (also involved in the May 17th broadcast) said to the VG Newspaper that he doubted there will be any broadcast, but hoped he was wrong.
The possible strike will affect most news related programs (including the British Royal Wedding broadcast), and will according to Communications Advisor Lasse Gimnes (who was speaking to the media journal Kampanje), ''create a lot of anger and despair.''

[Tatiana Maria]

Originally Posted by ROYAL NORWAY

We are approaching May 17th again, so here are some information about the royal part of the celebrations, the security measures and the NRK coverage:

Celebrating May 17th - The Royal House of Norway

King Carl Johan, who ruled over Norway and Sweden from 1818 to 1844, regarded the May 17th celebrations – and Norway’s independent Constitution – as revolutionary acts and a provocation against Sweden. In 1828 he prohibited the celebration of Constitution Day.

It must have been quite perplexing why Carl Johan was not highly esteemed in Norway.

However, following the death of King Carl Johan in 1844, there was a change of strategy. In 1845, his successor, King Oscar I attended the May 17th celebrations, and greeted the banner parade from the palatial estate, where the Royal Family stayed during visits to Christiania.
…
It was King Haakon and Queen Maud who introduced the custom of greeting the children’s parade from the Palace balcony in 1906. The custom has been upheld ever since.

Did the kings greet parades from the estate from 1846 to 1905, or were they absent from the May 17th celebrations of that period?

Marking special days or festivals with celebrations involving parades with banners, music and singing was common in the past. A school headmaster, Peter Qvam, is thought to have come up with the idea of holding the first children’s parade in Norway in 1869. […] The following year, in 1870, the first children’s parade marched to the Palace, stopping to sing the royal anthem beneath the Palace balcony.

Only boys, some 1,200 in all and most of them from Qvam’s school in Christiania, took part in the first children’s parade. It was not until 1889 that girls, pupils from Mrs Ragna Nielsen’s school, were allowed to join the parade. […] The current celebration of the graduates-to-be from upper secondary school dates back to 1905, when the graduating class took part in the May 17th parade for the first time.

I think Mr. Qvam's suggestion for a National Day celebration was superb, seeing as a children's parade is unlikely to become embroiled in political polemics as the early nineteenth century celebrations apparently were, but I cannot understand why girls were banned for two decades.

Originally Posted by ROYAL NORWAY

The possible strike will affect most news related programs (including the British Royal Wedding broadcast), and will according to Communications Advisor Lasse Gimnes (who was speaking to the media journal Kampanje), ''create a lot of anger and despair.''

Well, at least there will be a little intrigue this National Day.