The Royal Courts/Les Cours Royales: Norwegian royal couple

Annual 2017 NHO Conference

On Jan 5th Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess attended the annual conference of the Confederation where the green shift was the main topic.

"Made in Norway - a work for a green future" is the title of this year's conference in Spektrum, Oslo. The conference reunites both businesses, politicians and other decision makers.

One of the main goals of this year's conference is to show that it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while creating value and jobs.

Meeting with young leaders
During the first break, Crown Princess met with many youth leaders who attended this year's conference and received a greater insight into their perspective on the green shift. The Crown Prince also received several Norwegian companies come up to talk about how they both ensure added value and jobs in a sustainable manner. The business world is a big part of the key to get to the green shift.

In the evening their Royal Highness took part in the the traditional NHO dinner.

Here is NHO 2017 goal:
1)Lifting up businesses, natural resources, technology and people who solve problems related to population growth and greenhouse gas emissions.
2)Creating a debate about what should characterize a product, service or idea that is "Made in Norway".
3)Show that it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while creating value and jobs.
Discuss what kind of leadership and framework we need on the path towards a low-emission in 2050.
Photo credits: Kongehuset.no

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The Unveiling of the big white rabbit head

Crown Prince Haakon

It was she who pulled the wire to unveil the first work: a big white rabbit head. A second, a "geometric fox" orange was close. The princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, second in the order of succession to the throne after his father, inaugurated this Thursday, May 19 in the park of the Royal Palace in Oslo, a children's sculpture park named in his name. The granddaughter of King Harald V was standing next to it on the dais during the ceremony attended by some 700 small kindergarten students.

For this official mission, Ingrid Alexandra, who was wearing two pigtails and dressed in white and navy, could count on the presence of all the Norwegian royal family. In addition to sovereign grandfather, the girl was surrounded by his grandmother Queen Sonja, his parents Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon, his younger brother aged 10 Sverre Magnus and even its great aunt Princess Astrid, the sister of Harald.

Arranged on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the coronation of King Harald V in the year 2016, children's sculpture park should house a dozen. By artists, they are designed by schoolchildren from different regions of Norway through a national competition.

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The Norwegian Royal Courts: A stop in Milan

HM Queen Sonja

After the ceremonies and receptions, political meetings and cultural walk in the Forum of their first two days in Rome, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway continued their official visit to Italy this April 8 with a commercial component. This has logically held in Milan, the economic and financial city. Seminars, meetings, business meals and visit exhibitions punctuated a day where there was talk about future energy and design.

Sonja appeared in the morning in a turquoise blue suit, a coordinated scarf tied around the neck. But the queen has not failed to change for lunch, opting for a two-tone dress. The Queen of Norway had associated a white dress with heels and a fuchsia bag, and threw over one shoulder a similarly colored stole.

During this meal, King Harald V said that trade relations between Norway and Italy dated for a while now. To support his point, he recounted that they had started in the fifteenth century with the browser and Venetian merchant Pietro Querini. During the winter of 1431-1432, a storm that derives three weeks his ship to the North, it was gathered, and a handful of crew members who survived on the island of Rost in Lofoten in northern Norway. He could not return home after three months with the fishermen of the island. And it is to him that we owe the import of Norwegian stockfish in Italy, became very popular in the peninsula under the name of "stockfish".
Photo Credit: Paris Match

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The Norwegian Royal Courts: Tourist on their first day in Italy

HM Queen Sonja

While they were on a state visit to Italy, Queen Sonja and King Harald V of Norway are offered a walk among the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum.

Her love for art is quite known to the world. It is therefore not surprising that Queen Sonja had managed to squeeze in a walk among the ruins of the Forum in the program of the state visit she performed alonngside her husband King Harald V in Rome these April 6th and 7th. This walk as much cultural tourism that has found a place in the schedule Thursday. Sonja was wearing the same outfit as the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, which took place earlier. In this case a two-tone black and white set.

In the afternoon, the mother of two had changed, favoring a dress bedecked in shades of red, orange, fuchsia and black for receiving the royal couple hosted the President of the Republic Italy Sergio Mattarella at the Norwegian Embassy. This reception came after the State dinner hosted by Italian President at his Quirinale Palace the night before. For the occasion, the queen of Norway, who wore a purple evening dress bodice in lace and silver shoes, was adorned with a Queen Maud's Pearl and Diamond Tiara to match her pin. During the day on Wednesday, she had worn a suit in succession the same red as the small tambourine who wore then a perforated white jacket over a bright yellow dress. Outfits ideal for chaining official meetings: welcoming ceremony and meeting with President Mattarella, accompanied by his daughter Laura -who acts as the first lady of the country-; lunch with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi; talks with President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Deputies.
Arrived on Tuesday 5 April in Rome, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway conduct a state visit of three days in Italy. After two days in Rome, the royal couple went to Milan on Friday April 8th.