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Originally Posted by rchainho
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Yes, it is. Ingrid was also driven to the NRK interview at the Palace in this Tesla, it's shown in the beginning of the video.
Second part of my translation of Princess Ingrid Alexandra's NRK Interview
Interviewer: I’ve heard the Princess is a good storyteller. Who are the digiluttene?
Ingrid: Digiluttene is a rat breed that lives in the mountains, and which I wrote about in 4th grade. I made a little book about different digilutter.
Interviewer: Which you have invented?
Ingrid: Yes. A new breed, looks a bit like rats. So I drew all the digiluttene, wrote a little about each digilutt and made a book.
Interviewer: Digiluttene is a name you came up with?
Ingrid: Yes, I do not quite remember how.
Interviewer: Who did the Princess read the stories to?
Ingrid: Most of the time it was Mom and Dad.
Interviewer: And they liked it?
Ingrid: Yes, they liked it a lot. Before I learnt to write, I got Mom and Dad to write down all my stories – I told them and they wrote them down.
Interviewer: What does everyday life look like for the Princess?
Ingrid: I’m pretty grumpy in the mornings, so Dad makes me coffee sometimes, which gets me in a slightly better mood.
Interviewer: Does he bring it to bed?
Ingrid: No, to the car. He often drives us to school since we live so far away. Then I go to school. After school, I might work on homework, go for a walk, go skiing or hang out with friends and such.
Interviewer: What is school like for you?
Ingrid: Very good. Elvebakken is a great school.
Interviewer: Which subjects to you like best?
Ingrid: I love many of my subjects. It’s more fun this year since we have chosen subjects ourselves. I like Geography, and Chemistry, and English… I love many of the subjects.
Interviewer: Which subjects does the Princess like the least?
Ingrid: The least?
Interviewer: Where you think: “Ah! Do we have that again?”
Ingrid: Maybe I should not say that on television.
Interviewer: No?
Ingrid: No, I think perhaps not.
Interviewer: Are there any special topics that the Princess likes to write about?
Ingrid: Oh, many things. Writing about people and demography… That is very exciting. And we have learnt a lot about space last year, which was very inspiring. We have also learnt a lot about sustainable development – about how we can develop further in an environmentally friendly way.
Interviewer: You are a Princess. When did you realize that you were a Princess?
Ingrid: In a way, I have always known that. There was no specific time when I figured it out.
Interviewer: Do you often think about the fact that you are a Princess?
Ingrid: No, I don’t. Of course there are situations where I am reminded of it. But I do not know anything else. It’s not something I think much about.
Interviewer: In which situations are you reminded of it?
Ingrid: In situations like this one, I suppose. (laughs)
Interviewer: When you take on official engagements?
Ingrid: Yes.
Interviewer: Do you sometimes think in your everyday life, “no, I can’t do that”? For example when you are at a party or out in public?
Ingrid: Yes, of course I try to make smart choices. But I think that’s something everyone tries to do.
Interviewer: You do not feel that the Princess role limits your life?
Ingrid: In a way. But I’m just trying to make the best of it. I have to limit myself a bit… I cannot have social media and things like that, I limit pictures that are taken of me… All these things I try to do because I want to have a relatively normal youth and not be so much in the media at this time.
Interviewer: How important is privacy to the Princess?
Ingrid: It’s very important to me.
Interviewer: The Norwegian Constitution states that the monarch must belong to the Church of Norway. What do you think about that?
Ingrid: It is written in the Constitution, I adhere to that. It has not been a big problem for me.
Interviewer: Do you feel that you can believe what you want?
Ingrid: This is not a big problem for me, I’m fine with it.
Interviewer: Has the Princess ever considered saying no to the role of Queen?
Ingrid: It is a great opportunity. I am grateful for the opportunity we have. You wonder… You can dream away and think: what would another life have been like? But it’s hard to imagine. I do not know what it would have been like without it. But I’m still young and it will be a long time until I become Queen. It’s in the cards that I intend to do it.
Interviewer: When the Princess says that it is easy to dream away, has one thought: “It would have been nice not to do it”?
Ingrid: No, one can always wonder what another life would have been like, but it’s hard to imagine not being in the role I’m in.
Interviewer: As the Princess herself points out: you’re still young. As things are now, when the time comes, will the Princess take on the role of Queen?
Ingrid: Yes, that is the plan.
Interviewer: What does Norway mean to the Princess?
Ingrid: I have a lot of love for Norway. We are the best country, definitely. We have all the seasons, we have snow, we have summer. We are very good in the Winter Olympics. We have a lot of good things. We have “russetiden”… (laughs)
Interviewer: We’ll talk about that now! You are in your second year of high school. (In Norway, there are 3 years of high school; 11th to 13th grade) How has it been during the pandemic?
Ingrid: It has been quite peculiar. It is much more difficult to learn things when we have home school. Elvebakken has been great – we have been at school as much as possible. That has been important for us. It’s also a little weird, our age group has been inside for so long. I noticed it this summer. Things had been shut down for a very long time, I still felt like I was 15 and didn’t have much control. Then everything opened up, I got a summer job – and felt like I became 2 years older in a week. It was pretty weird.
Interviewer: You grew up at that job?
Ingrid: In a short time when everything reopened…
Interviewer: What was it like jobbing? It was a regular job, can I say that?
Ingrid: I worked as a runner together with my girlfriends, it was fantastic!
Interviewer: Runner, that is…?
Ingrid: You run with food and polish water bottles, glasses and things like that.
Interviewer: Where did you work?
Ingrid: At a restaurant in Oslo.
Interviewer: Next year, there will be the russ celebration. Will you be participating?
Ingrid: I will graduate high school and celebrate russ just like everybody else. (russ is how Norwegian high school students celebrate their graduation)
Interviewer: What do you think it will be like?
Ingrid: I’m sure it’s going to be nice.
Interviewer: What happens after high school?
Ingrid: We have a plan, but it changes often. I do not want to share it with the public yet, because it can change. And then I would set expectations for myself that it is perhaps wise to avoid.
Interviewer: Can the Princess say anything about which educational choices she is considering?
Ingrid. I have considered many, but it changes.
Interviewer: We have seen the Princess visit Camp Rena, you have flown on the F-16 in Bodø. Tell me about that.
Ingrid: It was pretty cool. I learnt a great amount about the military on my trips. They were also my first official engagements alone. Both visits were absolutely fantastic! I met a lot of wonderful people. Especially when I visited Rena – I met an all-female unit who was around my age. They welcomed me so wonderfully and were absolutely amazing. The flight was also very educational. Both visits were absolutely fantastic!
Interviewer: So will the Princess join the military?
Ingrid: I would rather not answer that.
Interviewer: But as monarch, you will be the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Do you have to join the Armed Forces to become Queen?
Ingrid: I have conscription on an equal footing with everyone else. The Constitution does not say that I need a military education. Not just because of my role, at least.
Interviewer: Would the Princess consider a gap year?
Ingrid: We’ll see.
No hard feelings.
Thank you so much!!!! It was a pleasure to read the interview 
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