Norwegian Royal Family Current Events Part 3: May 2018 -


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King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon attended the Church Parade of The King's Guard at Oslo Cathedral this morning, December 11:


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:previous: Thanks iceflower! :flowers:

The annual Church Parade was also attended by the military-leadership, while the sermon was held by Guard-priest, Major Kenneth Henriksen.

Royal House article in Norwegian: Kyrkjeparade for Kongens Garde - kongehuset.no

Engagements inside The Royal Palace yesterday, December 14th:

The King held two audiences: One with the culture-chief at the court, Maisen Bonnevie. - The Queen was also in attendance (10:30).
And one with The Prime Minister. - The Crown Prince was also in attendance (11:15).

After that, The King presided over the Council of State. - The Crown Prince was also in attendance (12:00).

And later, The Regent-Couple hosted a luncheon for the Government. - The CP-Couple was also in attendance (12:30).

(No photographers allowed in, so no photos of it.)
 
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Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon attended the hand-over/opening of Oslo's year as the European Green City of the Year (2019) today.

I managed to catch the ceremony live on Facebook and found it really good. My Norwegian is improving to the point where I can pick out the random words I know (but still not understand the full sentence. I'll get there :lol:)

Here's a link to the video, if you want to see nice Oslo scenery and listen to great Oslo musical acts. Her Majesty and the CP didn't speak, but you can see them entering at around 8:10, see them clapping throughout the ceremony, and then leaving.
 
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:previous: Thanks Iceflower! :flowers:

And yes, The Mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen, invited 400 guests with Sámi-background to mark the day with a brunch in Oslo City Hall's main hall this morning (a tradition since 2003), which was also attended by The Prime Minister and The Bishop of Oslo who, in addition to the mayor, gave speeches. - While Sámi artists and children stood for the entertainment.

Read more about The Sámi National Day in English here (link).
 
Sonja seems to be suffering from carpal tunnel or a wrist injury (see pic 1.) Is this a recent thing, or is it a reoccurring injury?
 
Lyonnaise said:
Sonja seems to be suffering from carpal tunnel or a wrist injury (see pic 1.) Is this a recent thing, or is it a reoccurring injury?
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Hmm, she's had problems with both arms/wrists in the past, but the first time I saw her pictured with a bandage this time, was during The King’s Medal of Merit reception on January 31ts.
And although The Queen is what I would describe as ''extremely fit'' for her age, she (as I have mentioned in other threads) is after all an 81-year-old lady suffering from arthritis. - And taking her VERY active lifestyle into consideration. I.e. the trekking/skiing-trips, jogging, exercising at fitness centres, etc, stuff can happen.

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eya said:
Queen Sonja opened an exhibition with Sami art in her own gallery in Oslo today.
Princess Astrid attend also but no pictures of her so far.

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Thanks Eya! :flowers:

Yes, in The Queen Sonja Art Stable, which one can read more about in English here (link).

The new exhibition consists of approximately 60 works from three generations of 13 Sámi artist from Norway, Sweden and Finland, and is the largest collection of Sámi art ever to be presented in Oslo.


More photos from Scanpix, if they don't show, click on them more than once:

The Queen and Princess Astrid with The President of The Sámi Parliament of Norway, Aili Keskitalo:
https://scanpix.no/spWebApp/preview/editorial/td94c0b5
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The Queen during her welcome speech:
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The Queen with some of the artists:
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https://scanpix.no/spWebApp/preview/editorial/td94c95b
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The Queen and Princess Astrid watching the entertainment:
https://scanpix.no/spWebApp/preview/editorial/td94c0c7

Instagram-gallery from The Royal House, which includes a photo of The Queen, Princess Astrid and The President together (link).
 
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Well, the white-tie diplomat-dinner, which is hosted by The Regent-Couple every third year (every other year until 2009), is taking place at The Royal Palace this evening. Princess Astrid is also in attendance.
But in contrast to the annual white-tie Stortings-dinner (gala-dinner for the Parliament), NTB (The Norwegian News Agency) is not allowed inside the palace to film the greetings, royal procession and speeches for NRK/TV2. - Although they were let in to take some pictures, yes, even film the royals when they were processing into The Banqueting Hall in 2016.

And so they were tonight: photo 1 - photo 2 - video.

BTW: Why isn't The CP-Couple in attendance?
1. The Crown Prince is still in Colombia as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP - February 11-14th.
2. The Crown Princess is probably resting after her stay in Sweden, attending The Alpine World Ski Championships with The Crown Prince - February 8-10th.
 
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I was a bit busy yesterday evening, so I forgot to mention two things in the above post:

First: Take a look from 2:00 in the video I posted, to see some very relieved guardsmen finally having the chance to move their hands/legs after standing on parade along the procession-route inside the Royal Palace for about 30 min.

Second: The dinner was introduced early in the reign of King Haakon VII, but unsure of the exact year.

BTW: Here's another video (with better quality) where one can see all the diplomats plus wives/husbands, some ministers, courtiers and the royals (152 people in total) processing into The Banqueting Hall (link).

Hmm, was there anything more, yes: Nobody are doing white-tie gala-dinners like The NRF. I mean, while the guests/royals in The UK, DK and Sweden are processing through some vestibules, here we have a Music Hall, two beautiful Ballrooms plus two Banqueting Halls to walk through, and that despite The Royal Palace being much smaller than that in Stockholm.

So, if you haven't done it already, check out these rooms here (link).
 
:previous: Thanks, Iceflower! :flowers:

That is the vessel which Princess Ingrid Alexandra (accompanied by her father) christened back in November. Read more about it and ''FF Kronprins Haakon'' in post 20.

BTW, here is an English Wikipedia article (link).
 
Princess Astrid, together with Erling Lorentzen and his children Haakon, Ingeborg and Ragnhild attend at the baptism of the rescue boat "Princess Ragnhild", at the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo today 14 August.

Erling Lorentzen, Princess Ragnhild's husband has donated money to the new rescue boat, and godmother was her daughter Ragnhild

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https://www.ntbinfo.no/pressemelding/rs-prinsesse-ragnhild-dopt?publisherId=89422&releaseId=17868931

Pictures by the Palace

https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html?tid=171079&sek=26939
 
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It's lovely to see the Lorentzen's headed by Erling himself who's looking healthy. I love Princess Astrid's outfit too.
 
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A nice follow-up to the Crown Prince's support of the women's national team in the summer. :flowers:
 
 
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