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About the king's Christmas speech:
Expressen's royal expert Karin Lennmor writes:
The king has definitely become better at speaking. This year's speech, however, was a bit vague. The king raised expected subjects, the terror attack on Drottninggatan course, but also #metoo. Though he did not pronounce the call with name at any time, nor its meaning ... but fired it a bit with words such as "unacceptable violations". I'd probably think that our king would dare to develop a little more.
A golden star though - something that touched me was that the king actually targeted personal and warm condolences to the families of the five victims on Drottninggatan.
Last Christmas, the king said something we all probably thought of: "Where are we going?" This undertone was also at this year's speech, there was an uneasiness when the king spoke about the great military exercise Aurora and the importance of joining the Nordic countries. It felt a bit like the war could come ...
When Victoria turned 40 years, she gave herself a special gift: she decided to carry out hikes in all Sweden's provinces. And the king mentioned also these hikes - not without some pride!
I wished a little more hopes - and perhaps promises - before 2018. I wished that the king would include all our new arrivals in his Christmas greetings. They are today a fairly large part of our society.
But on the whole, it was a good and straight Christmas speech. I give it 3 Christmas points!
Karin Lennmor_ Årets tal var lite vekt och vagt _ Karin Lennmor _ Expressen
Rhetoric expert Elaine Eksvärd says among other things that the people remember best of the king's speech the things at his desk. Eksvärd says that in 2016 the king made a great speech, this wasn't so good. The king makes his best speeches when he speaks about something he has experienced himself at his speech. Eksvärd hopes that the king would be more spontaneous, that he would stand instead of sitting during his speech.
Expressen's royal expert Karin Lennmor writes:
The king has definitely become better at speaking. This year's speech, however, was a bit vague. The king raised expected subjects, the terror attack on Drottninggatan course, but also #metoo. Though he did not pronounce the call with name at any time, nor its meaning ... but fired it a bit with words such as "unacceptable violations". I'd probably think that our king would dare to develop a little more.
A golden star though - something that touched me was that the king actually targeted personal and warm condolences to the families of the five victims on Drottninggatan.
Last Christmas, the king said something we all probably thought of: "Where are we going?" This undertone was also at this year's speech, there was an uneasiness when the king spoke about the great military exercise Aurora and the importance of joining the Nordic countries. It felt a bit like the war could come ...
When Victoria turned 40 years, she gave herself a special gift: she decided to carry out hikes in all Sweden's provinces. And the king mentioned also these hikes - not without some pride!
I wished a little more hopes - and perhaps promises - before 2018. I wished that the king would include all our new arrivals in his Christmas greetings. They are today a fairly large part of our society.
But on the whole, it was a good and straight Christmas speech. I give it 3 Christmas points!
Karin Lennmor_ Årets tal var lite vekt och vagt _ Karin Lennmor _ Expressen
Rhetoric expert Elaine Eksvärd says among other things that the people remember best of the king's speech the things at his desk. Eksvärd says that in 2016 the king made a great speech, this wasn't so good. The king makes his best speeches when he speaks about something he has experienced himself at his speech. Eksvärd hopes that the king would be more spontaneous, that he would stand instead of sitting during his speech.