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

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King Harald attend today 26 April at the service for the victims at the terrorist attacks on Sri Lanka in Bredtvet Church, in Oslo

https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html...9254&sek=26939

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King Harald visit to the municipalities Skiptvet and Marker today 30 April

https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html...9316&sek=26939

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Here's a video with an interview recorded during today's visit:


** Kong Harald om vindmøller: – Vakkert er det jo ikke ** translation **

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King Harald was in Trondheim today, May 7, to visit the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and to attend the Ocean Week 2019:


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** kongehuset: Hvordan fungerer hjernen? ** translation **

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King Harald attended the Liberation Day and National Veterans Day ceremony at Akershus Fortress this afternoon, May 8:


** kongehuset: Markerte Frigjøringsdagen **

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Today, May 10, King Harald opened the Finnmark houses at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History:



** kongehuset: Kongen åpnet "Finnmark" ** translation **

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This year's season started for the King's Ship Norge. King Harald embarked on the ship today, inspects the ship at the beginning of the season.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcsakGIc0L/

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Here are some more photos and a short interview:


** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** tv2 video **


When being asked about his daughter's new boyfriend, he answered he hadn't met him yet but that he found it nice that she had a new boyfriend.

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On May 16 King Harald received Li Zhanshu, Chinese chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), at the Royal Palace:


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And yet, the shaman said in the interview on television that he had already met the King and Queen ... This guy is full of lies (the shaman .. not the King ..).

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Today, May 21, King Harald handed out the Abel Prize 2019 to Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck. A dinner for the Abel Prize will follow this evening:



** kongehuset: Abelprisen 2019 **

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Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 67th Bergen International Festival today, May 22, a rainy start..


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** kongehuset: Det er festspill i Bergen! **

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Today, May 23, Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 2019 Bergen International Festival Exhibition:



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** kongehuset: Festspillutstillingen åpnet i dag ** translation **

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Perhaps it's time to start going through the daily royal engagements again:

Originally Posted by iceflower

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On May 16 King Harald received Li Zhanshu, Chinese chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), at the Royal Palace:


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Well, we have finally got our relationship with China back on track (yes, they got angry with us after Liu Xiaobo was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize of 2010). And The Prime Minister cosies up to them like no-one before her, which is actually starting to make us look ridiculous. Because, as politicians/commentators from both sides of the political spectrum here have said/written, we're not dependent on China buying our salmon!

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Originally Posted by eya

This year's season started for the King's Ship Norge. King Harald embarked on the ship today, inspects the ship at the beginning of the season.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcsakGIc0L/

Originally Posted by iceflower

Here are some more photos and a short interview:


** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** tv2 video **


When being asked about his daughter's new boyfriend, he answered he hadn't met him yet but that he found it nice that she had a new boyfriend.

Originally Posted by iceflower

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Today, May 21, King Harald handed out the Abel Prize 2019 to Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck. A dinner for the Abel Prize will follow this evening:



** kongehuset: Abelprisen 2019 **

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People on social media have been pretty critical of how journalists have literally hunted down this elderly man to ask him about Märtha. Yes, on Tuesday, an NRK-reporter was just a meter away from HM when the latter was about to get into his state-car, A2.
But despite all of this (which must be difficult for him), our utterly amazing monarch is just getting on with it.

About The Abel Prize: Established by the Norwegian government in 2002 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel's birth (read about him in the two below English links). The Prize, which has been handed out every year since 2003, recognises contributions to the field of mathematics that are of extraordinary depth and influence - and carries a cash award of 6 million NOK.
More information here: 1 - 2.

This year's laureate: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (English link).
''For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.''

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Originally Posted by Alex the VI

And yet, the shaman said in the interview on television that he had already met the King and Queen ... This guy is full of lies (the shaman .. not the King ..).

The King spoke to the media on May 14th, while the shaman guy and Märtha said on May 16th that he had met them the day before (on the 15th), so he was actually speaking the truth here.

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Originally Posted by iceflower

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Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 67th Bergen International Festival today, May 22, a rainy start..


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** bt.no article with photos and videos **


** kongehuset: Det er festspill i Bergen! **

Originally Posted by iceflower

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Today, May 23, Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 2019 Bergen International Festival Exhibition:



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** kongehuset: Festspillutstillingen åpnet i dag ** translation **

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HM is looking great, almost 82-years-young.
And although it can't be easy for her with all this craziness going on, she's still out doing her duty!

About Bergen International Festival: Annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen (Norway's second-most populated city and municipality) that started in 1953, and which is the largest one in its genre within the Nordic countries.
Read more in English here: 1 - 2.

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King Harald at the Oslo City Hall to be present at the opening of Nor-Shipping 2019.

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

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King Harald attend today at the celebration of the Norway-America Association's 100th anniversary in the Fanehallen at Akershus Fortress

https://www.instagram.com/p/By0Fso5pRjp/

https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html...0366&sek=26939

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Queen Sonja visited Landskappleiken 2019 - a festival of folk music and dance - in Vågå today, June 30:


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** kongehuset: Dronningen på landskappleik **

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Queen Sonja visited the Helgeland Festival and the opening of the Helgeland Stairway in Vefsn today, July 6:



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** kongehuset: Dronningen besøkte Mosjøen **

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Queen Sonja opened the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival on 8 July


https://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html...0898&sek=26939

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Yesterday evening, August 15, Queen Sonja attended the centenary concert of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra:


** kongehuset gallery ** kongehuset: Festkonsert på Slottsplassen **