Family Of The Crown Princess, Mette-Marit - Page 3

Alexandria · #41 01-22-2005, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by norwegianne

The perfect in-law of a royal is someone you don't see a lot of, or who doesn't make much of herself/himself. Mette-Marit's mother is one of them. I think breaking tradition to ask her to be the one non-royal godparent for the new heir to the throne is a good evidence of how good she is at it. She seems to have been there for Mette-Marit and Marius all the time, and also in recent years for Haakon and Ingrid Alexandra. They call her in to babysit when they go on longer journeys. I very much doubt they would call Svein O. in to do that.

He had the perfect opportunity after the wedding to redeem himself in his daughter's eyes, by not speaking out in the press which might've helped their relationship... I'm sure there are lots more behind that relationship that we will never know, but his attentionseeking has to be a big part of it.

I really agree with what you've said about Mette-Marit's mom. She stays in the background as she should and acts as support for her daughter and son-in-law and their children. Whereas Sven doesn't merely want to stay in the background he wants to be centre stage and chewing the scenery!

No wonder Mette-Marit's mom has been on skiing holidays with the Queen and Sven has only been invited to official functions -- I bet Mette-Marit cringed every time she had to add her father to the guest list of her wedding and Ingrid Alexandra's baptism.

What a disgrace he is to his daughter. A shame that she's had to overcome so many challenges and obstacles in adapting to her role as Crown Princess yet the one thing she can't shake is genetically-bound to her. :(

norwegianne · #42 03-11-2005, 12:59 PM

Well, it is official: they married at the Norwegian embassy in den Haag, in the Netherlands, today at 14:00. VG got it confirmed by the Ambassador. http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=269981

From what I can get from the article, citing an interview Renathe made with Expressen in January, she talks about her stripping career in the past tense, and says she's started studying for working as an assistant nurse with old people. So, not current striptease-dancer.

Frankly, the fact that the two of them managed to keep their wedding fairly quiet is something I find commendable.

Larzen · #43 03-11-2005, 01:22 PM

On the news at TV2 they said that Se og Hør has paid them 200 000 NOK each so that Se og Hør would get exclusive rights, Se og Hør is also paying for their trip to Thailand. Norwegian papers has obiously been on to the wedding and Sven O apparantly denied to Dagbladet yesterday that he was getting married.
What a circus

KikkiB · #44 03-11-2005, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Larzen

On the news at TV2 they said that Se og Hør has paid them 200 000 NOK each so that Se og Hør would get exclusive rights, Se og Hør is also paying for their trip to Thailand. Norwegian papers has obiously been on to the wedding and Sven O apparantly denied to Dagbladet yesterday that he was getting married.
What a circus

I wouldn't put money on this marriage to last very long! IMO its just a PR stunt by Sven O and that woman. CP Mette-Marits father obviously like to be centre stage no matter what

Someone should sit him down and tell him that he can't do all this crazy things anymore. But then again there isn't much they can do, because Norway have freedom of speech. But the magazines and papers should stop paying him to appear in their publications, because I think most Norwegians find him and his shenanigans pathetic!

Danielle · #45 03-11-2005, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by KikkiB

I wouldn't put money on this marriage to last very long! IMO its just a PR stunt by Sven O and that woman. CP Mette-Marits father obviously like to be centre stage no matter what

Someone should sit him down and tell him that he can't do all this crazy things anymore. But then again there isn't much they can do, because Norway have freedom of speech. But the magazines and papers should stop paying him to appear in their publications, because I think most Norwegians find him and his shenanigans pathetic!

I agree! Hasn't MM had enough to deal with, with people bringing up her past etc, without having to worry about her selfish father? Poor MM. Its so sad. She has worked so hard to be accepted by her people, and is doing such a wonderful job as Crown Princess, but her father is making it even more difficult. I know I shouldn't judge, but what kind of parent would go out of their way to embarrass their child in the way Sven has? :(

Lena · #46 03-11-2005, 05:07 PM

O, this Sven O. is like a ticking bomb. Poor Mette Marit :( The more I hear about her father, the more I admire her for that, what she is now.

Alisa · #47 03-11-2005, 07:58 PM

How distasteful!

sara1981 · #48 03-11-2005, 11:46 PM

I have agree with posts!

its really poor for Crown Princess M-M because she need deserve for her dad to rights marry to that woman! that really crazy to marry that striptease-dancer but the Crown Princess would got shock over her dad got married if she cant watch her proud dad got married and she cant take 2 kids watch grandfather's wedding you know that! or she would forget it! when she cant intives her dad for her daughter's christening what her dad for derserve it but her mom intives and family also for Princess Ingrid's christening in 2004.

I would hardly understand why her new step-mother as striptease-dancer but she wouldnt relationship with her but she would close with her dad or not!

Sara Boyce

Lena · #49 03-12-2005, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by susan alicia

if people would stop buying the sensational magazines filed with junk and just ignore him and or let him go on with his life as he sees fit, that would be it

Do Norwegians really buy mags, because there´s a new Sven O.-scandal in it?
It´s hard not to read about him, when you are a Royalty-watcher, but I would never buy a magazine, just because there´s a story on him. But when there would be great exclusive pics of cp Mette Marit and/or her lovely children I wouldn´t hesitate.

KikkiB · #50 03-12-2005, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Lena

Do Norwegians really buy mags, because there´s a new Sven O.-scandal in it?
It´s hard not to read about him, when you are a Royalty-watcher, but I would never buy a magazine, just because there´s a story on him. But when there would be great exclusive pics of cp Mette Marit and/or her lovely children I wouldn´t hesitate.

I agree with you! It's a moral dilemma, because I don't want to support the magazines that write about Sven O. but then again I'm interested in royalty and it's the same magazines who write about royalty. So the question is should I boycot the magazines who writes about him, or should I subcome to my royal interest??

KikkiB · #51 03-12-2005, 02:58 PM

In Norway we don't have so many magazines that write about these things. We have magazines like Se og Hør and Her og Nå which writes about celebrity and royalty. And they are mostly gentle with what they write, but sometimes cross the line. And its these who pays Sven O. to appear in their magazines. Then we have womens magazines with articles about regular people, recipes, health tips and sometimes articles on royalty and they are serious about what they write. So if I want to read about royalty on a regular basis I have to buy Se og Hør. And I do believe that this magazine put scandal stories on the frontpage to sell more, but I read this magazine with a critical eye.

Thankfully we don't have magazines like the horrible German ones who make up stories about royalty that doesn't have a speck of truth in them. So I miss a serious Norwegian royal magazine. And I believe if such a magazine should be made in Norway Sven O.. wouldn't be mentioned a lot, if at all.

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Originally Posted by susan alicia

we are probably not referring to the same kind of magazines, I meant the kind who think up all kind of misery of well known people -sometimes of royals- in order to sell more magazines.

If beautiful pictures of royals is what you want, the magazines specifically about royals would, I imagine, give the father of mette marit a small bit of a page.

sommone · #52 03-12-2005, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by susan alicia

you would not

it would not be your responsibility

How can you say what I wouldn't do?

Doesn't matter if it isn't my responsibility, if it was my father I would definitely be embarrassed by any attention seeking stunts he would pull.

Amira · #53 03-13-2005, 12:10 AM

I read on the colour press that CP Mette-Marits Father tied the knot with the striptease girl ...i couldn't acces the colourpress.com site because i'm not a member ...but there is a picture with something about their wedding ...

andr · #54 03-14-2005, 08:09 PM

Really... Sven O. is just him self. He has always been a drunk clown since long before his dother become royal. You can't expect that he has too change his life completly just because his Mette-Marit married Haakon.

And can we actualy blame him for taking monny for the pictures from his wedding. He got less monny a year than the cost of one or to of Mette-Marits galladresses. Beckham and Britney sell there weddings too.

I've heard that "exlusive" price wasn't 50 000 EUR as TV2 and VG said but much lower.

yeadonite · #55 03-14-2005, 08:44 PM

Do you wonder why M-M had such a colorful past? With a father like that how would you know right from wrong. I am suprised that the royal family went along with the marriage of M-M and Haakon, there is just so much baggage.

Larzen · #56 03-15-2005, 02:18 AM

Here is the happy couple on the cover of Se og Hør

Alexandria · #57 03-15-2005, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by yeadonite

Do you wonder why M-M had such a colorful past? With a father like that how would you know right from wrong. I am suprised that the royal family went along with the marriage of M-M and Haakon, there is just so much baggage.

I don't think it's that Sven doesn't know right from wrong. I think he perfectly well knows right from wrong. He just has no scruples about using his daughter's public role to garner attention for himself and to serve his own purposes. He knows that pleading to the media about how Mette-Marit won't let him see Marius very often is inappropriate yet he does it anyway because it puts him on the front page of Norwegian papers.

I think it's a really unfair statement to say that Mette-Marit's "colourful past" is the result of her father's indiscretions. Firstly, while he wouldn't win a father of the year award, his indiscretions of late have occured because his daughter is the Crown Princess of Norway. Were Mette-Marit just a normal Norwegian girl nobody in the Norwegian media would care that Sven has married a striptease dancer or that he doesn't get to see his grandson very much.

Secondly, to say that Mette-Marit's "colourful past" is the result of her father's lack of scruples is unfair to her mother, who is a much more decent, prviate individual. That's to completely discredit the role Mette-Marit's mother has played in her life -- a woman whom she is very close to. It is also to say that children who have had difficult lives because of the decisions or actions of their parents can't rise about it and live good moral lives, just as it is to say that parents who are level-headed and moral-minded can't have children who lead colourful lives.
and implies that just because children have parents who lead "colourl

Reina · #58 03-15-2005, 01:59 PM

He is a fool.

betina · #59 03-16-2005, 11:11 AM

I totally agree

ingenue · #60 03-16-2005, 12:28 PM

how embarrassing for MM