It is kind of difficult to believe that Princess Ingrid Alexandra is turning 10 this year.
I remember when she was born – I was studying history at the time – and I had a lecture I had to be at… and got up to the university and back from the lecture just in time for the PR conference. (I also attended the lecture, but can’t remember much about that.)
Happy birthday!
The twins are growing up. Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine turned three years to day.
The Danish court released these pictures for the occasion. This lovely photo, with both of them, is probably my favorite. It feels a lot less airbrushed and more spontaneous than what we might normally see from the Danish court.
After much speculations in the press around the performing artists and the security cost, The Palace reveals details around Crown Prince Haakon’s birthday celebrations.
Since he is a huge fan of music, Crown Princess Mette-Marit has set the celebrations up so that there will be a music festival at Skaugum for two days. The guests as well as the Crown Prince and Crown Princess will mostly be sleeping outdoors in tents and sleeping bags – like at an ordinary festival.
Some royals will be sleeping indoors, but it seems like the majority, if not all of them, will stay at Skaugum – reducing the need for security elsewhere drastically. The security for it all is estimated to come to 3.7 million NOK – a shift down from the 20 million NOK that Finansavisen reported.
There have been talk in Svensk Damtidning (who has it from Se & Hør’s front page, a reputable source…) that it will be a hippie party.
“It’s not a themed party the Crown Princess has invited to, but a music festival.” – palace spokesperson
They aren’t revealing details on the line-up yet, as the musical acts are the birthday gifts and they want the revealing point for the Crown Prince to be when the acts open – not a week before in the press.
But the spokesperson can confirm some things. “It is not true that Coldplay is giving a performance, and if you hear that world stars like Madonna, David Bowie or the Beatles will come – that’s not true either.”
It’s only six months until I turn 30.
Inhrid Alexandra turns 7 today, and the Norwegian court has, true to tradition, released some pictures. See: http://www.kongehuset.no/c27217/nyhet/vis.html?tid=89213
Some of the pictures are from the shoot they did with NRK before Christmas, while others are the product of her parents’ fondness for photography. (If you recall, some of the first pictures of Ingrid Alexandra released to the public was taken by Crown Prince Haakon)
Their trip abroad without work commitments seems to be coming to an end, as both the Crown Prince and Crown Princess are scheduled to be in Davos next week for the World Economic Forum, and Mette-Marit has UNAIDS meetings in Geneva the week after that.
December 2010
28 – Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster (1977)
28 – King/Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah of Bahrain (1949)
28 – Princess Antoinette of Monaco, Baroness of Massy (1920)
29 – Princess Kako of Akishino [Japan] (1994)
29 – Angelica Kreuger (1986)
31 – Carlos Morales Quintana (1970)
January 2011
1 – Nicolas Mirzayantz (1963)
20 – Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck of Bhutan (1955)
20 – Ashi Tshering Pem Wangchuck of Bhutan (1957)
20 – Princess Akiko of Mikasa [Japan] (1981)
20 – Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo (1963)
23 – Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan (1975)
23 – Emperor Akihito of Japan (1933)
23 – Silvia, Queen of Sweden (1943)
25 – Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (1969)
25 – Princess Alexandra, The Honorable Lady Ogilvy (1936)
13 – Prince Aymeric of Belgium (2005)
13 – Prince Nicolas of Belgium (2005)
14 – Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria (1995)
16 – Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955)
17 –James, Viscount Severn (2007)
6 – Pablo Urdangarín y de Borbón (2000)
6 – Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (2000)
7 – Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand (1978)
7 – Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands (2003)
8 – Archduke Imre of Austria (1985)
9 – Crown Princess Srirasmi of Thailand (1971)
9 – Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1991)
9 – Crown Princess Masako of Japan (1963)