King Harald and Queen Sonja Current Events, Part 2: February 2015 - December 2020

[ROYAL NORWAY]

Engagements inside The Royal Palace today, December 13th.

The King granted an ordinary audience to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Queen and The Crown Prince was also in attendance. (No photographers allowed in.)

After that, The King held 3 formal audiences:

The new Ambassador of Slovenia, His Excellency Mr Edvin Skrt:
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The new Ambassador of Burkina Faso, Her Excellency Ms Maria-Goretti Blandine Agaleoue Adoua:
https://scanpix.no/spWebApp/preview/editorial/td709258
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The new Ambassador of Jamaica, His Excellency Mr Seth George Ramocan:
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(If the photos don't show, click on them more than once.)


And later in the day, The Queen attended the board meeting of The Queen Sonja Print Award. (No photographers allowed in.)

Read about the award in this English Royal House article (link).

[ROYAL NORWAY]

Engagements inside The Royal Palace today, January 17th.

The King granted an ordinary audience to The Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Queen and The Crown Prince was also in attendance. (No photographers allowed in.)


After that, The King held 4 formal audiences:

The new Ambassador of Turkey, His Excellency Mr Fazı Çorman:
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The new Ambassador of Lebanon, His Excellency Mr Hassan Saleh:
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The new Ambassador of Liberia, Her Excellency Ms Youngor Sevelee Telewoda:
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The new Ambassador of Mozambique, His Excellency Mr Florêncio Joel Alberto Sele:
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While The Queen held an audience with the Norwegian-Sami artist and author, Máret Ánne Sara. (No photographers allowed in.)


This was followed by a Official luncheon for The Supreme Court, hosted by The Regent-Couple. The Crown Prince was also in attendance. (No photographers allowed in.)

[Lyonnaise]

Originally Posted by ROYAL NORWAY

Engagements inside The Royal Palace today, January 17th.

This was followed by a Official luncheon for The Supreme Court, hosted by The Regent-Couple. The Crown Prince was also in attendance. (No photographers allowed in.)

If I recall what was written on kongehuset.no calendar prior to a couple of hours ago, Mette-Marit was originally scheduled to attend this. I remember thinking that her first engagement wasn't until the 17th and we wouldn't even get pictures!

Well, hopefully we'll see her on the 28th.

[eya]

One picture by the Palace from the Official lunch yesterday for the Supreme Court. The Calendar mention the CP Mette Marit but she is not attend, only CP Haakon.

https://scontent.fath4-2.fna.fbcdn.n...c4&oe=5CFBD56A

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsxXsRFnJry/

[Lumutqueen]

https://twitter.com/OAanmoen/status/1087425891519660032

BREAKING: Extraordinary council of state in Oslo on Tuesday 11AM!

King Harald will approved changes in the government.

[tommy100]

Sure its be being dense, what does that mean? Has there been an election? or reshuffle?

[Lyonnaise]

It's not just you, tommy100. I, too, was trying to figure out what this meant. We'll have to wait for RoyalNorwary to enlighten us.

[Tatiana Maria]

Royal Norway has written several very interesting posts regarding the developments leading to the government reshuffle in the thread here: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ml#post2188478

[iceflower]

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King Harald presided over an extraordinary Council of State at the Royal Palace today:


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[ROYAL NORWAY]

Originally Posted by Lyonnaise

If I recall what was written on kongehuset.no calendar prior to a couple of hours ago, Mette-Marit was originally scheduled to attend this. I remember thinking that her first engagement wasn't until the 17th and we wouldn't even get pictures!

Well, hopefully we'll see her on the 28th.

1. That's correct, yes! - But as I wrote in ''The General News and Information for The NRF'' thread, her attendance at royal engagements will be based on her day-to-day form.
Which is why the court (to avoid speculation if she has to cancel) usually waits until just minutes before large-scale events to add her to the official calendar, such as they did for The Nobel Peace Prize celebrations back in December.

2. And when it comes to the board meeting of The CP-Couple's Foundation on January 28th: Well, we probably won't see her anyway, since it will most likely take place at either The Royal Palace or at Skaugum, where photographers are never allowed inside for events such as this.
Although, the court (or the foundation) can publish a photo of it on Instagram, as they did for the Official luncheon for The Supreme Court on January 17th and The Prime Minister's audience with The King today. - But with the exception of two or three times, they usually don't do so for a Foundation-meeting.

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Originally Posted by Lyonnaise

It's not just you, tommy100. I, too, was trying to figure out what this meant. We'll have to wait for RoyalNorwary to enlighten us.

Originally Posted by Tatiana Maria

Royal Norway has written several very interesting posts regarding the developments leading to the government reshuffle in the thread here: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ml#post2188478

Haven't had time today, but will try to write about it tomorrow or on Thursday (in that thread).

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Originally Posted by iceflower

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King Harald presided over an extraordinary Council of State at the Royal Palace today:


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Thanks Iceflower!

That's actually the first time the court has shared a photo of the PM having an audience with The King.

[eya]

The King and the Queen hosted a reception at the Royal Palace for recipients of the King's Merit Medal today

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[ROYAL NORWAY]

Thanks eya!

Read about Kongens fortjenstmedalje (The King's Medal of Merit) in English here (link).

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Other engagements inside The Royal Palace:

Earlier in the day, The King granted an ordinary audience to The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Queen was also in attendance. (No photographers allowed in.)

And tomorrow, February 1st, he presides over the weekly Council of State. The Crown Prince will also be in attendance.

[ROYAL NORWAY]

Well, our sports-mad King has attended the first of his two day-stay at The Norwegian Championships in Cross-country skiing (the biggest sport in Norway) at Grova Ski-Center today, which is situated in Meråker municipality (link to English Wikipedia article) in Trøndelag county (link to English Wikipedia article) in Central Norway (link to English Wikipedia article).

It was televised by NRK1 (the state-owned Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's and Norway's largest TV-channel) from 10:00 to 11:15 (for the female competitors) and from 12:45 to 14:45 (for the male competitors).

And the charismatic 81-year-old folksy monarch was in great spirit as usual, hugging the winners and everything. - If the photos (which will be added as they are published by Scanpix) don't show, click on them more than once:

Arriving at the Ski-Center (his first official visit to Meråker BTW), where he was greeted by The President of the Norwegian Ski Federation, Erik Røste; Committee Chair in this year's Championships, Bjørg Sissel Kvannli and two children who were picked out to give him flowers:
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Watching the female competitors:
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With the female winner, Therese Johaug:
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With the male winner, Emil Iversen:
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[iceflower]

Thanks! The Palace shared two more nice photos with the winners:


** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 **

[Lyonnaise]

He looks like he's having a lot of fun. I love the photos the Court posted on Instagram with him and winners.

(I do have to say, I'm quite disappointed no one in the family attended the speed skating championships happening in Hamar. This is only because my Canadians are doing quite well! )

[eya]

The palace share a picture from today with King Harald with the three sisters winners!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtayX9sHOin/

And with another one winner

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtbCDwenKxT/

https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html...7395&sek=26939

[Lyonnaise]

Was this a team sport or did they just happen to tie? How did all three win

[eya]

Was a team sport today

https://www.kongehuset.no/aim/kongeh...try=920x943%3E

[ROYAL NORWAY]

Thanks Iceflower & Eya!

And yes, from competing as single competitors yesterday to relay teams today.

Televised by NRK1 from 10:55 to 12:00 (for the females) and from 12:15 to 14:25 (for the males).

And The King seemed to have another fun day out in the cold. - If these additional photos don't show, click on them more than once:

With the female winner-team, Oppdal IL:
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With the male winner-team, Lyn:
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And now this ''amazing'' monarch of ours (due to a whole bunch of reasons, which I've written about in various threads here over the years) can take a well-deserved break until February 5th, when he will have another engagement outside The Royal Palace.

[iceflower]

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King Harald attended the presentation of the Public Health's Research Awards 2019 in Oslo today, February 5:


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