King Harald and Queen Sonja

[violetta]

http://wyborcza.pl/duzy_kadr/56,97904,11689885,Spotkanie_Anny_Komorowskiej_i_krolowej_Norwegii__Sonji.html

The King and te Queen are on the official visit in Poland. Here are pictures of Queen Sonja and the Polish first lady Anna Komorowska

[Lucien]

HM King Harald celebrates his 75th birthday:

http://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?zoektype=2&search=31-05-2012%20oslo

courtesy ppe

[sunbeam]

A little anecdote from my Norwegian relatives. (To explain: An uncle on my father's side married a Norwegian woman, moved to Norway, and had two children.) A few years ago (I believe it was 2010) I received a Christmas card from them. It was a collage of family pictures. One of the pictures was of my cousin together with King Harald V on my cousin's boat. It's a kind of sporting boat that apparently the king wanted to borrow! Cool huh? Last year the King returned and asked for the boat again
I'd post the picture but I don't know if my cousin would be comfortable with that, and I don't speak with him a lot... But I just thought of it again and wanted to share it here

[edubs31]

Pretty cool. If you can post a picture of the boat at some point that would be too...I'd like to see it.

[Lucien]

The Norwegian Royal Family out and about at breautifull Holmenkollen last weekend!

http://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?zoektype=2&search=17-03-2013%20Holmenkollen

courtesy PPE

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Смерть учителя искусства kоролевы.
Еë Величество kоролева Соня попрощался с учителю и дорогой другу Кьелл Нупен, xудожник известен своими голубыми картин.
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Death of the Queen's art teacher.
Her Majesty Queen Sonja said farewell to her teacher and dear friend Kjell Nupen, the artist known for his blue paintings.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/21/kjell-nupen
http://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/kjell-nupen-bisettes-1.11627514

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Его Величество король Харальд \/, увлеченный рыболов, принял участие в показательной рыбалке в центре города Берген, организованной Норвежским охото-рыболовным обществом. Год 2014 объявлен годом спортивной рыбалки.
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His Majesty King Harald V, a keen angler, took part in a promotional fishing stunt in the city centre of Bergen, organized by the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers. The year 2014 has been declared the year of sport fishing.

See http://ru-royalty.livejournal.com/2115302.html

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Королевская семья получила государственный визит от президента Израиля Шимона Пересом.
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The Royal Family received a state visit from Israeli President Šimon Peres.

See http://ru-royalty.livejournal.com/2119257.html

This week Norway will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its Constitution, which was the most liberal in Europe at the time it was adopted (1814), but for the first 50 years contained the infamous "Jew paragraph", stating that Jews (+ Jesuits and monastic orders) were banned from the country.

An absurd and ironic result was that when the near bancrupt newborn Norwegian state in the following years negociated a state loan from the Jewish banker Hambro & Sons in Copenhagen (later in London), the negociations had to be conducted on the Swedish side of the border and then an extraordinary passport had to be issued to the anti-Semitic liberal state's Jewish banker....

On a more uplifting note: Šimon Peres, born in 1923 in Vishnyeva, Belarus (then Poland), would have been born a subject of NII if he had been born 6-7 years earlier.

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Северный саммит.
Три королевские пары отметили 200-летие норвежской независимости и конституции на национальный день Норвегии.
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Nordic summit.
Three royal couples marked the 200th anniversary of Norwegian independence and constitution on Norway's national day.

See http://ru-royalty.livejournal.com/2130853.html

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Норвежский королевский двор назначает первую действительную oбер-гофмаршальшу (шефа двора) в мире.
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The Norwegian Royal Court appoints world's first actual female Court Marshall (Chief of Court).
http://www.kongehuset.no/nyhet.html?tid=126271&sek=26939

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Открытие Парламента в Норвегии - 2015
Вчера, 2 октября, состоялось ежегодное открытие парламента Норвегии - Стортинг. На открытии парламента присутствовали король Харальд, королева Соня и кронпринц Хокон. В ходе церемонии, король Харальд произнес ежегодную тронною речь.
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Opening of Parliament in Norway - 2015
Yesterday, October 2, the annual opening of the Parliament of Norway - Storting was held. At the opening of parliament attended King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon. During the ceremony, King Harald said his annual speech from the throne.

See http://ru-royalty.livejournal.com/3402745.html

This was the 200th anniversary of the opening of the first proper parliament in 1815 (opened by Namestnik / Lord Lieutenant Hans Henric von Essen) and the most noteworthy incident was that the King jumped one of the pages of the speech handed to him by Prime Minister Erna Solberg and did not read it, something for which the palace apologized later.