The Dutch state visit to Norway is in
full swing. After being welcomed, on November 9th 2021, in a solemn
ceremony, the King and Queen of the Netherlands were accompanied by
their hosts, King Harald and Queen Sonja, on a visit to one of
Norway’s most famous museums. King Willem-Alexander and Queen
Máxima were accompanied to the Polar Museum on Bygdøy in Oslo by
King Harald and Queen…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of
the Netherlands are in Norway for a three day state visit that was
postponed from 2020 due to the global health crisis. They arrived
on the morning of Tuesday, 9 November and after several engagements
during the day attended a state…
Shortly before the beginning of their
first incoming state visit, the Norwegian Royal Court announced
that one thing would change in the schedule planned for the Dutch
King and Queen’s trip to the Scandinavian nation. Crown
Prince Haakon was supposed to be one of the…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima touch down in Oslo for State Visit to Norway
9th November 2021
Following almost two years of
restrictions and shutdowns, life is beginning to go back to how it
was before, albeit with some remanence of the trauma we
collectively lived through. State visits are starting to reappear
on heads of states’ calendars, and on 9 November, the Dutch state
visit to Norway began. King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima
and the outgoing Dutch Minister of…
Norwegian Armed Forces Memorial Day has
been marked with Crown Prince Haakon placing a wreath at the
national veteran monument at Akershus Fortress in Oslo. At the
ceremony at Akershus fortress, on Sunday November 7th 2021, Chief
of Defence, General Eirik Kristoffersen gave…
Norway and the Netherlands: the special friendship on show in past State Visits
8th November 2021
The King and Queen of the Netherlands
will make a State Visit to Norway this November. Willem-Alexander
and Maxima will be hosted by their friends, King Harald and Queen
Sonja, for the three day event. Although it’s Willem-Alexander’s
first State Visit to Norway…
This week, Princess Märtha Louise,
daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja was a guest in an Norwegian
podcast. Among other things, the Norwegian princess talked about
being highly sensitive with Märtha Louise saying that she only
understood that she was highly sensitive when she was an adult. The
princess says that King Harald and Queen Sonja have been very
accepting of her sensitivities.
King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon welcome Germany’s President to Norway
5th November 2021
The Kingdom of Norway and the German
Republic have developed close relations in recent decades, both
through economic cooperation and military cooperation through NATO.
King Harald and Queen Sonja as well as Crown Prince Haakon have
received the President of Germany…
This week it was western Norway’s turn to
receive a royal visit. Crown Prince Haakon visited a county with a
particularly great need for restructuring since much of the
country’s oil, and gas activities are located there. The first stop
on the Crown…
Sport is important for all nations and,
as a former Olympic athlete in sailing, it is perhaps particularly
important to King Harald. Along with Queen Sonja, the Norwegian
monarch has hosted a dinner for his country’s participants in the
last Olympics and Paralympics which took place in Tokyo this
summer. The royal couple invited the participants to dinner at the
Palace to celebrate since…
