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The Norwegian Royal COurts: Crown Princess Mette-Maritt in Tanzania

We may have last seen her a couple of weeks ago but Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette Maritt visited the East African country Tanzania today to assess progress made in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to see how young people are engaging in the country’s AIDS response.

"It is moving to meet mothers who are in good health and caring for children born free from HIV thanks to antiretroviral medicines,” said Crown Princess Mette-Marit. “It is also particularly rewarding for me to see young people taking up leadership roles in the AIDS response and being equipped with the skills to guide the United Republic of Tanzania towards an AIDS-free generation."

During her visit, the future Queen visited facilities providing services for women and young people living with HIV and also met with mothers living with HIV whose children have been born free from the virus. She went to one of the 26 PASADA (Pastoral Activities and Services for People with AIDS Dar es Salaam Archdiocese) clinics operating in the Dar es Salaam and Pwani regions that provide HIV prevention, treatment and support services for people and communities most in need. She met with youth activists and engage in taking part in activities at the Stepping Stones Community of Practice, which offers life-skills training for adolescents and young people, including comprehensive sexuality education and programmes relating to HIV and gender equality.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been engaged in the AIDS response since 2003 and advocates for the empowerment of women and young people at events and speaking engagements all over the world.
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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".
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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.

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The Norwegian Royal Courts: A taste of chamber music with Crown Princess Mette-Marit

Crown Princess Mette Marit

Direction Oslo Sentralen concert hall in Oslo for Crown Princess Mette-Marit, this March 30th. The future Queen consort was expected for the launch of the 2016 Risor Chamber Music festival. This festival is an open air festival organized by a non profit foundation for the purpose of enhancing the musical and cultural life in Risor and the surrounding region.

The young 43 year old mother of 3 had chosen for the occasion to dress in a grey Valentino tweed dress, accessorized with a small clutch and GIANVITO ROSSI Pumps.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit is patron this annual musical event, created in 1991.