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Still my favourite too !
Bunte's article writes, that the family spent the holidays on a yacht in front of Capri and Amalfi coast...
Mette-Marit von Norwegen: Mehr Urlaub als Arbeit? | BUNTE.de
https://translate.google.hu/transla...mehr-urlaub-als-arbeit-132101.html&edit-text=
In this article is a picture about this holiday. ... And writes that they own a home in Rio de Janeiro...? Or the google translation is so bad...
Vacances royale : entre farniente et polémiques - L'Express Styles
Crown Prince Haakon talked about watching series and Friday taco in his first live interview.
''The first thing that happens in the morning is that I press the snooze button. I always go to bed an hour to late'', Crown Prince Haakon says.
The Morning at home for the Crown Prince family consist of the same as with most people: Clothing, breakfast etc. And a little procrastination, perhaps.
''We are often a bit late and we should not be, but we is'', the Crown Prince says.
Friday Taco is also a staple for the Crown Prince. And of course series-watching.
What series do you see at the moment, then?
''I look at The O.C. of course ... Oh no!
But I think my all time favorite has to be The West Wing, and perhaps The Newsroom'', he says.
Like father like daughter
On Friday the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer begins, and it's Princess Ingrid Alexandra who will light the Olympic fire.
What kind of advice would you give her? Since you did the same thing in 1994, Ronny ask.
''It's not hocus-pocus, she'll practice a little, and will handle it just fine.''
What were you thinking in 1994 when you stood there and was to light the fire for the whole world? Ronny ask.
''Oh, that moment, I remember very well. I was to light the fire so it matched with the music''.
''What happened was that I was to get a sign in the music when I was coming up the stairs, and at the rehearsals, I found out that I would be around halfway up the stairs when the sign came.''
But the fire-lighting didn't go as planned:
''The sign I was to have in the middle of the stairs came the moment I got the torch in his hand.
If one looks carefully at the video clip from 1994, one can see that I turn around and was running as fast as I can.''
When the prince is almost on the top the sign comes in the music again. Then he suddenly had very good time.
''Finally, I stood there at the top and thought it was good that I arrived in time. And then I smiled slightly, and looked toward the people, and pretended that it was the way it should be.
In retrospect, it turned out that it actually was the way it should be. The Crown Prince had just gotten a little better time, without notice.
According to wiki: 26% of municipalities (12% of the overall population) identify as speaking Nynorsk. of the remaining 74%, they are pretty much split evenly half identifying as neutral and half as Bokmal.
The Sami people do have their own language. The various Sami groups of Norway seem to speak the Western Sami language. It is a Uralic language, which would be considered similar to Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.
Haakon og Mette Marit får Norge til at rase: Genopliver 200 år gammel strid - Royale | www.bt.dk
I stumbled across this piece of news in Danish BT today and as I haven't noticed it anywhere else, including the TRF I'll post it here.
Now, I'm not Norwegian so this may be a little complicated to explain.
In Norway there are two official versions of Norwegian: Nynorsk, which basically is a compromise of the countless dialects that were spoken in Norway some 200 years ago and Bokmål, which is official Norwegian and which is spoken by 90 % of the population.
Ingrid Alexandra has as you know changed from a public school to a private and international school.
And that has caused a row in Norway! Partly because it's a private school, but also very much because the international school does not teach Nynorsk. The reason being that most of the school's pupils are foreigners and it would make no sense to teach them two versions of Norwegian.
As such Ingrid Alexandra is not taught Nynorsk either.
Marit Tennø from the association Noregs Mållag says: "From a symbolic point of view it's unfortunate that the heir to the throne is excempt from learning Nynorsk. That results in a lacking competence in Norwegian, when the students on an elite-school are only taught one of two Norwegian languages".
interesting, thanks
I guess she can always get a tutor later on
''Her Parents make sure that she gets the necessary training in nynorsk'', writes Communications Director in the royal house, Marianne Hagen in an email to VG.
It's already known that the Princess participates in a reading group with former cabinet secretary Berit Tversland. Here they reads both in nynorsk and bokmål.
What part of the population speaks Nynorsk?
so interesting, i didn't know there were 2 norwegian languages. however, i read that 12% of the population speaks nynorske, so it's not a prominent language and i would even venture to say that the rest of the RF probably do not speak it (sonja, MM?) anyway. so why attack the fact that IA is not learning it at school? she will probably study it on her private time as part of her 'curriculum' to prepare for her future role (just like for example, felipe did when he learnt the autonomic languages in spain).
which other countries with royalty have minority languages just like norway and spain? (belgium and britain come to mind, but maybe also denmark, with the faroe islands and greenland?) do their royals speak a minority language?
Thanks for the article, Muhler.
I don't know where BT gets their sources from, because there is no row/raging here in Norway. It's only the leader in Noregs MÅLLAG, Marit Tenno who thinks it's wrong that the students at Oslo International School doesn't learn nynorsk. There's hardly been mentioned in the media with the exception of a few articles four days ago.
Prinsesseskule utan nynorsk: Uheldig at Ingrid Alexandra blir friteken - Skole og utdanning - VG
which other countries with royalty have minority languages just like norway and spain? (belgium and britain come to mind, but maybe also denmark, with the faroe islands and greenland?) do their royals speak a minority language?
CP Haakon will take part in the "Birkebeinerrennet" on March 19 this year for the second time.
Birkebeiner.no
Google Translation
The two were spotted in Tromso yesterday. They boarded a wellness boat in the company of the king and queen of The Netherlands.
Haakon and Mette-Marit Host Dutch Monarchs On Welness Boat | The Royal Forums
Thanks for sharing eya, those were great photos. It was great to see the family playing football together, the children seemed to be enjoying themselves!