From Fotomarktplatz: Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway during an interview with the newspaper VG in her office at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway, February 3, 2005. The Crown Princess said to the newspaper that her recent visit to Malawi her first trip aborad without her husband, and the aids patients had really change her life. Crown Princess Mette-Marit also pointed out, to the VG newspaper, that it was important to give 100 percent of her personality in her job as a Crown Princess. Photo Janne Moller-Hansen
Is there anyone from Norway who read this interview, and perhaps could give us a broader summary?
I read the interview, but I can't really recall much of it now...
What I do remember (this is paraphrasing, because I don't have a photographic memory):
- the journalist noting that there were baby pacifiers lying about in her office, along with a few baby books. The office was also furnished in a modern, simplistic, style.
- Mette-Marit saying that she felt that she had grown more into her role, but that it was a job that she wouldn't have dared to take on, if she hadn't been 100 % positive that she had love to keep her going. It would have been difficult to do without Haakon to back her up. (I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the general gist.)
- Mette-Marit put emphasis on the fact that raising Ingrid Alexandra to become aware of the privileged position she was in, and utilise that position to help others, was important to them.
Thanks for the pictures GrandDuchess and the article summary norwegianne.
I really like Mette-Marit's office and the more contemporary design scheme she's got going.
Interesting to note how much Mette-Marit's recent solo trip to meet with AIDS patients has deeply affected her life. Sometimes it seems to me that royals make these trips abroad but they don't affect them very much, that it's just part of the job and they go about these trips in a mechanical way. But from the pictures it was obvious that Mette-Marit was enjoying herself and participating and engaged on the trip 100 per cent.
i also liked mm's office a lot... seems original and well decorated. however, i don t think she spends much time there... do you?
by the way, those were nice photos...
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She has previously said that she is at her office almost every day, and that she and Haakon prefers to have meetings with staff\and extern persons at her office because its nicer\more personal than his. Haakons office is next door. That was a choice the Queen made during the renovation, before haakon and mm had met because she had to wait a long time to get her office, and the Queen wanted everything to be ready for the future CPsess whoever she might be
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Originally Posted by GrandDuchess
From Fotomarktplatz:
[i]Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway during an interview with the newspaper VG in her office at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway, February 3, 2005.
Yes, nice office. I like seeing photos of the royals at their desks. I like MM´s outfit here too. She looks great. Not a fan of that outfit at the skating rink though. Don´t look at it too long. Might make you dizzy. Too bad more people don´t follow figure skating in Norway. They could have had a good chance to see the Crown Princess again.
The article talks about Mette-Marit shopping in Milan, despite being recently critizised for not wearing enough Norwegian clothes. It talks about her getting huge percentages off, and some of her favourite designers. All of the above originated in Se & Hør...
The article also says that she also uses much clothes by the Norwegian designer who designed her wedding gown.
I just read an interview with Valentino in the norwegian fashion magazine Tique, that he loves Mette-Marit and considers her a good friend! He says she is a wonderful woman and a crown princess for the future!
I think it is a matter also of personal decision of CP Mette-Marit of what clothes she is going to wear. May it be the gowns, the casual ones or the formal ones. Whatever people will tell her to do so, the final decision always lies on her on the clothes she is going to use.
I do understand that as Norwegian or a citizen of a specific country, you should if possible in your own way patronize the products of your own country not just always the products of foreign countries.
But it does not mean that because you are the Crown Princess of Norway, you will just stick all the time to all Norwegian designs just because you are from Norway and you also represent the country and its people. Though at times, you should wear the designs of your fellow Norwegians but wearing dresses from designers of foreign nationality could also be an option. CP Mette-Marit has the freedom and will to choose her designers and on what kind of clothes will she wear. It's her right.
But it should not happen that she would patronize more or always the designs of other designers not from her own country.
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It is a nice thing when designers recognize you as one of their friends though. =) lol.
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Last friday Se og Hør had an article saying that Mette-Marit was thinner than ever, this friday however, they are sure she is pregnant. :p Firstly because she had to cancel the planned event on wednesday morning and because several people (who ofcourse shall remain nameless) has seen her leaving her doctor ob\gyn Professor Babil Stray Pedersen.
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