Queen Sonja of Norway and her daughter-in-law Crown Princess Mette-Marit are joining hands in patroning this year's Norwegian telethon concert to benefit the Red Cross.

The place was very appropriate for Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were seen sitting this Monday, April 25th on the red bench that sits in the Royal Palace in Oslo park to meet the press, it is in no way a coincidence. This bench is one of those that the Red Cross has installed in 2015 in various public places in Norway, to break the loneliness encouraging people who sit there to discuss them. But just what is the Red Cross whose wife of King Harald V and that of Crown Prince Haakon came to talk.

Already together last week on April 19th to participate in a waste collection with volunteers in a city of northern seaside, Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were again found side by side in front of the flashes of photographers or the microphones of journalists for a good cause. The two women, who chose to wear casual outfits for this appointment media, were there to announce that sponsoring concert the next edition of the Norwegian Telethon in October 2016. Which one will see its fundraising for the Red Cross Norwegian -Red. The money raised will go to help the people affected by the war in Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Myanmar, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as refugees received in Norway.

Launched in 1974, the Norwegian Telethon titled "TV-aksjonen" is dedicated each year to a different cause. Norwegians participate generously. For example, for each of the editions of 2013 and 2014, a sum equivalent to more than € 200 million had
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