Her Royal Highness Princess Ingrid
Alexandra of Norway, unveiled this Friday four new sculptures in
Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Sculpture Park in the Palace Park by
the Royal Palace in Oslo. The Princess was accompanied by her
grandmother, Her Majesty Queen Sonja. The sculptures that Princess
Ingrid Alexandra unveiled were the winners of a contest among
schoolchildren from Oslo, Akershus…
Southern Norway is now in an unusually
warm period. A heat wave has hit the country and has lasted almost
a month with temperatures of 30-32 degrees Celsius during the
daytime. This is quite different from what the southern parts of
Norway generally has – very low…
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of
Norway attended on Wednesday the Entrepreneur’s Market in Oslo at
the Lillo Estate and Farm. It is the second consecutive year in
which the Entrepreneur’s Market is organised at Lillo Farm by the
industry company, The AF…
An announcement has been made by the
Norwegian Foreign Ministry that King Harald has invited President
Andrei Kiska of Slovakia for a State Visit next week, he is due to
visit Norway between the 4th and 6th June. This is the first
official visit of a Slovakian President, but it does follow a visit
to Slovakia in October 2010 by King Harald and Queen Sonja when
they were guests of the then…
Several Norwegian royal properties will
be secured against terror for £55 million in the next years, and
the building of the security-facilities will soon begin. The
project has met criticism, as it has taken too long to put in
place. But now it happens seven years after…
On Tuesday, His Royal Highness Crown
Prince Haakon of Norway signed an agreement with the UN Development
Programme, UNDP, where he is committed to continuing his efforts as
a goodwill ambassador for their programme. The Crown Prince
received UNDP’s leader, Achim…
His Majesty King Harald of Norway
participated Monday in the award ceremony for the prestigious Abel
Prize. The Abel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Professor Robert
Langlands, the man behind the programme that connects
representation theory and numerical theory mathematics at a very
high level. His Majesty the King received the prize winner in an
audience at the Royal Palace before handing out the…
Various royal houses have announced the
attendance of their members at the 50th birthday celebrations for
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark this weekend. The Crown Prince
will turn 50 on 26 May. Photo released for Crown Prince Frederik’s
50th. © Photographer Steen…
On Thursday, Norway observed its national
day, a day when Norway celebrates its constitution, which, just
behind the constitution to the United States, is the oldest in the
world still in use. The day was celebrated from early morning until
late in the evening, and the Royal…
On Tuesday afternoon, King Harald and
Queen Sonja visited the Norwegian Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy just
outside Oslo. The reason for this visit was because the King and
Queen wanted to hear more about the plans to build the new museum.
The new museum will be completed in a few years and be three times
as large as the current museum. The King and Queen saw the various
ships, the new film the…
