Harald & Sonja - early years

[yoyo1987]

How is beautiful the queen Sonja when she was young .Now she is a beautiful woman.

 

[salma]

What tiara wear Sonja in this pic?
http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00714/kronprinsparet_714602a.jpg

 

[Her_Majesty]

What tiara wear Sonja in this pic?
http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00714/kronprinsparet_714602a.jpg

It's a Pearl and Emerald Bracelet worn as a Tiara

http://www.angelfire.com/la3/lone_mor/kongelige_s_bracelet.html

 

[salma]

Thank you. Sonja was beautiful with green dress.

 

[yoyo1987]

thank you her majesty for these wonderful pics. I love this Sonja' portrait as you

 

[Her_Majesty]

Sonja with little girl
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/ww...238741923000_Nett_konge_2_2515398248x510r.jpg

Bigger picture:
Princess Sonja with a young girl during the easter vacations 1969
http://i42.tinypic.com/24gm8oi.jpg
origno.no

Princess Sonja, baby Haakon, Prince Harald and King Olav during their easter vacations in 1974
http://i42.tinypic.com/2cmp45i.jpg
origno.no


Sonja
http://i32.tinypic.com/wwgrx0.jpg
scanpix

 

[Her_Majesty]

Video

An NRK engagement interview I've never seen before
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

some pictures of the interview:

http://img224.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97568_haraldsonja_122_218lo.jpg
http://img223.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97572_SonjaInterview6_122_254lo.jpg
http://img165.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97023_SonjaharaldInterview4_122_439lo.jpg
http://img198.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97012_SonjaInterview4_122_827lo.jpg
http://img167.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97021_SonjaharaldInterview2_122_920lo.jpg
http://img195.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=97007_SonjaInterview2_122_1082lo.jpg
nrk

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1968
Royal Engagement
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

Wedding
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

1969
Visit to Finmark
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

1971
Birth and christening of Märtha Louise - so awesome
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

 

[Her_Majesty]

Sonja with baby Haakon

Baptism Picture
(Scanpix)

 

[Her_Majesty]

Never saw that picture of the two of them before:
Harald and Sonja in 1974

And here's a very lovely one of Sonja
Princess Sonja

(Covers of PdV)

 

[salma]

The second cover is a beautiful pic.

 

[Maura724]

She looks very pretty in both of those - very 70s in the first, but I do like the curls in her hair.

 

[Opal]

You know, she kind of looks like Mette-Marit in the first picture but with brown hair.

 

[Her_Majesty]

Sonja and Harald in Finmark 1969
http://www.egenhistorie.no/dyn/files/publications_dvds_items/474-file_high/Finmark_high.jpg
http://www.kongehuset.no/aim/kongeh...e.jpg/Scale?geometry=373x334>&Set:quality=100

 

[Her_Majesty]

Sonja and Harald - A love story (in english and dutch , with many sweet pictures)

YouTube - Harald and Sonja - A Love Story

 

[Patra]

Wow, what a great video- Princess Marta Louise looks so much like Queen Sonja, but with those piercing blue eyes. And CP Haakon looks so much like King Harald when he was a young man/prince!

 

[Her_Majesty]

And here are two more pictures I found :

The newly married couple CP Harald and CP Sonja attending the christning of Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands.
Harald is one of his Godfathers.

http://i37.tinypic.com/6ek677.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/2ld8yo7.jpg
beeldbank.nl

Prince Claus welcoming the couple at Schiphol
http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/na:col1:dat202514
http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/na:col1:dat202515
http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/na:col1:dat202516

 

[Maura724]

I love the video - thanks for finding that, Her Majesty. I used an automatic translator online for the couple of Dutch subtitles where the audio is in Norwegian, not English, so here's the English text of those parts for anyone who's interested (this may not be entirely correct, so any Dutch or Norwegian members who have a better translation are completely welcome to correct me ):

In the opening interview, Sonja says: "Last fall the ball began rolling and I understood that it would become reality. Therefore I tried to live quietly to this day. But I did not know when the day would come."

Olav later says: "It is a mixture of expectation and tension, which of course you always have as a father, especially a father without the support of a wife, who must give permission for the marriage of his only son."

Harald later says in the interview: "It has, of course, especially for Sonja, been a burden for so many years to walk around without support. She had to do it alone. For me, it is now a liberation to step outside and for my opinion to come out."

 

[Her_Majesty]

On Kongehuset.no I found another beautiful picture of Sonja
(it belongs to the photo session where she poses with the Diamond tiara and the silver/white dress).

I've never seen this picture before. She looks simply gorgeous here:

http://www.kongehuset.no/aim/kongehuset/55/19/storage/file.image.jpg/Scale?geometry=800>x600>

 

[Her_Majesty]

YouTube - Harald V of Norway & Sonia, Wedding and family

This video shows some scenes with Harald and Sonja at Skaugum that I did not see before.

 

[Her_Majesty]

A Norwegian newspaper unveiled that Harald and Sonja were breaking the law during their honeymoon 1968, because they were travelling with false names (Tom and Eva Manstad).
Billed-Bladet - Det norske kongepar var på kant med loven

 

[Lumutqueen]

That's interesting, why would they travel under false names? Didn't people know they were going on a honeymoon?

 

[Her_Majesty]

They did know it and that's why they decided to chose false names.
The media thought the newly married couple were on a Yacht on their way to Mexico, but actually they were on Hawaii. They wanted to escape the press and media and spend their honeymoon as anonymously as possible.
This was secretly organized by Norwegian authorities and King Olav.
Article in English:
Google Übersetzer
http://translate.google.de/translat...te-falske-pass-paa-bryllupsreisen&sl=no&tl=en

http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/07/30/nyheter/kong_harald/dronning_sonja/slottet/12765404/
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7228788
http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/kongeparet-reiste-med-falske-identiteter-i-1968-3256600.html

 

[Lumutqueen]

Sounds like a good enough idea to me, and people are saying it was illegal to do that?

 

[Kenya]

That story makes me smile. Considering how information-obsessed we are in today's age, I'm surprised to learn that things really haven't changed that much, and the media was so keen to learn where the newlyweds were honeymooning. It's great for King Harald and Queen Sonja that they were unable to sneak away and be undisturbed. After so many years of waiting to be together, it must have been such a relief to finally be man and wife.

On an unrelated note, I had a good giggle at the stories to the side of the Billed Bladet English translation of the KH/QS story. There's a link to one story that says "Prince Haakon was today's man gravy," and is about his participation in the rescue of the sinking boat this weekend. I have no idea what the original Danish meant, but somehow "man gravy" just doesn't translate into English.

 

[Her_Majesty]

Some more Scanpix pictures of the couple

The new Crown Princess Sonja at the Olympic Games in Mexico
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1963/sx070130.jpg

Arriving back home after their honeymoon
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3352/320x.jpg
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2995/3i2kozhiz4mjzeenkglaarg.jpg
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4907/yfm4dfvwtrxh1walaaajlvn.jpg

Engagement day
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9042/4gzsrkencm55uyn6mvgnoag.jpg
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1623/eng1.jpg -
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/8682/eng2.jpg
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/271/eng3.jpg

The CP couple visiting North Norway in 1969

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7102/sami13.jpg
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4655/sami1t.jpg
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5723/sami2.jpg
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4496/sami3.jpg
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http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6868/sami6.jpg
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2848/sami7d.jpg
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8334/sami14.jpg

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/2179/sami8.jpg
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1213/sami9.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5296/sami10.jpg
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/42/sami12.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9018/sami11.jpg

Scanpix

 

[Maura724]

Sounds like a good enough idea to me, and people are saying it was illegal to do that?

Yeah, I was actually in Norway when this story came out and bought a newspaper and my Danish aunt translated the article for me. Dagbladet was making quite an issue of how it was illegal to use fake passports. Never mind that the government itself knowingly issued these passports!

 

[Her_Majesty]

Some more pictures of young CP Sonja:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9397/sy217396.jpg - lovely hairdo
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/4250/sy217398.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5362/sy217395.jpg - cute
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7449/sy217394.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/733/sy21542c.jpg
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6944/sy21542d.jpg

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2585/sy214407.jpg

Scanpix

 

[salma]

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2585/sy214407.jpg

Thank´s Her Majesty I like her old pics. She was a beautiful woman. Do you know where was taken this pic?

 

[Her_Majesty]

Thank´s Her Majesty I like her old pics. She was a beautiful woman. Do you know where was taken this pic?

It was taken at her 40th birthday during a regatta in Hankø.

 

[salma]

It was taken at her 40th birthday during a regatta in Hankø.

Thanks
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