Family news and pictures thread

[Her_Majesty]

Two pictures from ANB
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/9...6101924qd7.jpg
http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/6...6101925mj7.jpg

NRK/scanpix

[SofieN]

See the little video on this page. Lots of cute private photos.
http://www.kjendis.no/2006/10/26/480958.html

[Her_Majesty]

Originally Posted by SofieN

See the little video on this page. Lots of cute private photos.
http://www.kjendis.no/2006/10/26/480958.html

The photos are really nice! I love the final one: Grandfather Harald holding little Maud Angelica.

[Her_Majesty]

NRK Video about Harald's life
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/199814
NRK

I love the scenes with the happy parents and baby Haakon

[ortino]

Originally Posted by Lena

Honestly I´m not too fond of Mette Marit´s dress. Sometimes I´m wondering "Is this matronly woman, the same, who married Haakon in an elegant wedding dress?" and in very bad moments I´m even thinking "Would you have only stuck to the multi-coloured striped H&M pullover!"
She isn´t doing really bad as crown princess, but sometimes it is also hard to read out, who she actually is and who she wants to be. One can accuse me here for superficialty. But I think style is saying a lot about ones personality and attitude...

Lena, I agree with you 100%!!!

[Larzen]

Upcomming travel in 2007
King and queen will go on state visits to Finland and Germany
The Crown Prince Couple will do the long trips this yeas as well, South Korea in May and Chile in November

source VG paperedition nov 5th

[sara1981]

Debate rages over royal statue
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1528691.ece

[Redferns]

old spanish covers
http://i2.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/fd/6d/0b_1.JPG
http://i4.ebayimg.com/02/i/08/ed/ff/5b_1.JPG
http://i16.ebayimg.com/05/i/08/ee/79/0d_1.JPG

[Larzen]

The royal budget for the next year has been approved without protests, everyone voted in favour

The King and Queen gets in total 143 968 00 million kroner next year
7.9 million is the appanage, for which they cover private expdenses as well costs for representative work.
112 million is for the staff and the court
24 million is for special projects (I guess renovation of buildings and similar)

the Crown Prince couple gets 18 529 000 kroner
5.9 million kroner is appanage for private use and representative costs
the rest is for "drift" which I guess means the running of their court, staff vages, maitnance of Skaugum etc.
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=159139
to check presisly what covers what check out the royal budget published at the home page annually as Im not clear on the specifics, last years
http://www.kongehuset.no/dt_kongehus...=5&gid=544&aid=

[auntie]

how much is the kroner vs th us dollar?

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by auntie

how much is the kroner vs th us dollar?

$1 is about 6 Norwegian kroner
£1 is about 12 Norwegian kroner
€1 is about 8 Norwegian kroner

[Larzen]

I think we might get some pictures from Skaugum today, atleast they said on a newsbulletin that on the 19.00 news we would see how small and big are preparing for christmas at Skaugum

BTW do we not have a thread about christmas celebrations? I looked for it but could not find it

[purple_platinum]

Originally Posted by Larzen

I think we might get some pictures from Skaugum today, atleast they said on a newsbulletin that on the 19.00 news we would see how small and big are preparing for christmas at Skaugum

BTW do we not have a thread about christmas celebrations? I looked for it but could not find it

The Royal Holiday subforum is back and here's the link to the Norwegian Royals Celebrate Christmas :
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f107/norwegian-royals-celebrate-christmas-1536-8.html

[Mandy]

Time to close this thread. Thanks to everyone for posting.

The new thread can be found here. Enjoy!