Tag: county visits

At a 3 day roundtrip in the Aust Agder county, Haakon and Mette-Marit were asked about the pregnancy rumours that had sprung up in the Danish media, but probably were fuelled by Se & Hør.

Haakon said that it would be best to not speculate on whether or not they were expecting. He commented that they would have to see about an addition to the family, but that there were no current plan in the works.

In addition to visiting the county, opening a new university campus – at the university where Mette-Marit studied briefly to become a construction engineer, there have also been time to respond to people.

The Crown Princely couple have been taking a lot of questions from their Facebook fans and Twitter fans at this trip, and have been responding to some of them in YouTube videos.

One of the questions were on how Ingrid Alexandra and her parents was handling the first days of school. The response was that the Princess had been very ready to start school – she was already reading a lot and was quite excited to start. Her parents said they were very proud of her.

These past three days, Rogaland county in the south west of Norway have had royal visitors. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have toured the county, from the north west to the south east. They used the royal yacht, Norge, as mode of transportation from Oslo and between some of the municipalities, as well as a residence on the trip. (more…)

For the people who didn’t spend their education memorizing the Norwegian counties as yours truly did; Norway is divided into 19 counties – which in turn is divided into municipalities. (If you’re interested in random factoids; there are 430 municipalities.)

The royal family has made a habit of making special visits to the counties, so they can meet people who may not normally get a chance to meet the royals. These county visits roughly follow the pattern of a state visit; they’re three days long, usually, and the royals tend to do two of them a year. (Haakon and Mette-Marit does one, and Harald and Sonja one.)

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