tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313775185790722122024-03-16T00:25:37.591-07:00Royally ScandinavianDaily news about the whereabouts of the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Royals.Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-57962261168528769542018-01-15T12:52:00.000-08:002018-01-15T12:52:04.727-08:00Official visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Norway - Program<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will pay an official visit to Norway on 1. and 2. February 2018.<br />
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The Duke and Duchess will be welcomed by Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown princess Mette-Marit at the entrance of the Gardermoen Airport in Oslo along with the military on the morning of Thursday 1. February.<br />
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After a private lunch at the Royal Palace, the Duke and Duchess will be shown around Princess Ingrid Alexandra's sculpture park.<br />
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On Thursday afternoon, accompanied by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, the Duke and Duchess will visit NorwegianBritishitish start-up companies and entrepreneurs at MESH Tordenskioldsgate, Oslo.<br />
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King Harald and Queen Sonja are hosting a dinner for the British guests at the Palace on Thursday evening.<br />
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On Friday morning, the Duke and Duchess will bid farewell to the King and Queen. Accompanied by the Crown Prince Couple, the Duke and Duchess will go from the Palace to Hartvig Nissens school to meet the creators and actors behind the success of the series "Skam". It is the introduction to the discussions with students, teachers, and actors about the challenges that young people may face while growing up in today's society - identity problems, bullying, sexual abuse and eating disorders.<br />
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Then, the Duke and Duchess are invited to a private lunch with the Crown Prince Couple at Skaugum.<br />
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After lunch, the visit in Oslo will have ended. Then the pair will first pay a visit to the ski museum, the tower and the ski jump. Then to Øvresetertjern at Tryvann where the british guests get to meet the children and see how playing and activities are a natural part of growing up in Norway.Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-69261532098500806262018-01-15T12:18:00.000-08:002018-01-15T12:18:55.099-08:00Official visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Sweden - Program<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On 30 and 31 January 2018, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will make an official visit to Sweden on behalf of the British government.<br />
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On the visit's first day the King and the Queen will welcome the Duke and Duchess to Sweden by providing a lunch at the Royal Palace. During the visit the visit, the Duke and Duchess will visit several different institutions and organizations. The Crown Princess Couple will be the hosts of the couple and also receive the Duke and Duchess at Haga Palace.<br />
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<li><b>Walk to Stortorget.</b> The Duke and Duchess will walk with the Crown Princess Couple from the Royal Palace to Stortorget, during which they will be able to greet people.</li>
<li><b>The Crown Princess Couple accompany the Duke and Duchess to the Nobel Museum. </b>Their Royal Highnesses will visit The Nobel museum to get information about the Nobel prize and its history as well as to meet former Nobel Laureates.</li>
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<li><b>Visit to Karolinska Institute and Matthew School.</b> The Crown Princess Couple and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit the Karolinska Institute and Matthew School with the aim to learn about work in the fight against mental illness among children and youth; </li>
<li><b>Visit to "NK" (Nordiska Kompaniet). </b>Their Royal Highnesses visit the department store NK in order to take part in an interactive exhibition on British design. They also meet representatives of British design and fashion companies that operate in Sweden to learn more about the corporate work, in particular in sustainability issues.</li>
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<li><b>Reception for Fotografiska</b>. Their Royal Highnesses attend a reception for the Swedish cultural scene with invited guests from the music-, movie-, tv-, art - and the world of sports.</li>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-60064167660320546502018-01-02T19:03:00.001-08:002018-01-02T19:03:37.685-08:00Crown Princess Mary: A decade of giving back.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As Crown Princess Mary and her family enjoy a private holiday back in Australia, Her Royal Highness talks to Juliet Rieden about 10 years of the ground-breaking Mary Foundation, her deeply felt belief that everyone needs "a solid dose of empathy" and how this Tassie-born royal found her place in Denmark. </span></div>
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In 2004, in honour of the wedding of HRH Crown Prince Frederik to Australia's own Mary Donaldson, a 1.1 million kroner ($176,000) gift was raised in Denmark and Greenland. As wedding gifts go, this was a pretty generous one and certainly a sign of how much faith Danes had in their new Crown Princess. That trust was paid back in spades when three years later the new royal put the people's funds to work and launched her Mary Foundation. </div>
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HRH The Crown Princess's vision was to create a powerful initiative that gave something back to Denmark, a program of projects that would tangibly help the most vulnerable and tackle key social problems. Under an overarching mantel of combating social isolation, based on the belief that everyone has a right to belong, the Mary Foundation has identified and developed around 10 projects within three focus areas of bullying and well-being, domestic violence and loneliness. </div>
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<i>"The last 10 years have been a rewarding and challenging journey,"</i> Crown Princess Mary tells The Weekly. <i>"We have worked hard and in collaboration with experts and partners have established the Mary Foundation. That our efforts can help to improve people's lives and give them a sense of hope for the future, gives all of us at the Mary Foundation a sense of fulfillment and pride. However, today I am more convinced than ever that our work has only just begun. When working with social issues, you quickly find out that the more you learn, the more complex it becomes - and the more humble you get when it comes to creating lasting changes and securing long-term impact." </i>The royal may feel humbled by the task, but Crown Princess Mary's passion is obvious and the Foundation is a proud badge of honour for Danes, who are hugely supportive of her work. </div>
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The "Free of Bullying" program, pioneered by the Foundation, has been introduced into half of Danish kindergartens and a third of schools. So when Crown Princess Mary's youngest son came home talking about her work it was a wonderful moment for her, as a mother. <i>"Vincent came home [from school] and told me that they were learning about `mum's project',"</i> says Crown Princess Mary proudly. <i>"I haven't sat them down and explained in detail what my work is focused on,"</i> she says. <i>"However, they are definitely aware of some of the issues that deeply concern me, as we talk about them and they ask me questions about, for example, the children I meet in Africa."</i> Six-year-old twins TRH Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine are in their first year at school. Like their elder siblings, TRH Prince Christian, 12, and Princess Isabella, 10, they are not at a private school, but a public school - Tranegardskolen in Hellerup, in suburban Copenhagen, just north of their home in the Amalienborg Palace. </div>
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This is the first generation of Danish royal children not to have been privately educated, which is a big deal. The Danish court is more than 1000 years old — one of the oldest monarchies in the world — but as a new era hovers on the horizon with Crown Prince Frederik and his Tasmanian wife Crown Princess Mary at the helm, it is also proving to be one of the most modern and open-minded, and initiatives like the Mary Foundation's Free of Bullying program being widely used at classroom level are an important part of the new monarchy. </div>
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Danes also see Crown Princess Mary as a role model, says Lars Hovbakke Sorensen, royal commentator and Assistant Professor at Denmark's University College Absalon. <i>"She is a role model in many different ways. But most important is in her care for children, women and other people with social or health problems. By her work she demonstrates that even if you are a person without any social or economic problems and even if you belong to the 'upper class' — or the royal family — you can talk and work together with any 'ordinary' person. She speaks with 'ordinary' people, to children and those facing social problems in a really natural way."</i> This sense of genuinely connecting with people is key in the royal's personal message to her four children. <i>"We feel that we have a responsibility as part of our role as parents to bring up our children to be open and tolerant adults, with a solid dose of empathy,"</i> the Crown Princess explains. <i>"It is important that we have the ability to reflect and to put ourselves in the situation of others, to see things from another perspective. Empathy is what holds our world together." </i></div>
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Empathy is certainly at the heart of the Mary Foundation's work. <i>"The Foundation has been very effective,"</i> says Sorensen, <i>"both regarding the concrete work but also because Crown Princess Mary's personal engagement in the work creates a new [and vital] attention to the problems the Foundation works with." </i></div>
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I ask the Crown Princess what spurred her on, not just to establish the Foundation, but to concentrate on the areas she has chosen, including social isolation. For Crown Princess Mary, it seems it was elemental. <i>"As far back as I can recall, I have always found it difficult to see a person seemingly alone, a person standing on the outside looking in, a person who doesn't feel like they belong,"</i> she explains. <i>"I believe that we all have a fundamental need to be an accepted and valued member of a group, that we are an important part of something greater than ourselves. Alone, we feel vulnerable. This is the basic idea behind the Mary Foundation's underlying philosophy that everyone has the right to belong. All of our work and efforts are targeted at combating social isolation, whether it leads to or is the result of bullying, domestic violence or loneliness. Today, we know that the feeling of happiness and the quality of our health are closely linked to whether we feel that we have good and close relations." </i></div>
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Tackling bullies Bullying is one of the Foundation's key areas and a hot topic for all mothers as vicious trolls on social media wreak emotional devastation all over the world and fuel terrifying social scourges such as the rise in teen suicide. <i>"The dynamics of bullying are the same online and offline,"</i> says Crown Princess Mary. <i>"But social media does provide a new channel for bullying. Digital bullying extends bullying past the school day and it is therefore often </i><i>experienced as a relentless pressure and stress. Another factor is that messages or words alone — which are often sent anonymously — can have an even more brutal impact than if said face-to-face. "In Denmark, the way we view bullying is changing,"</i> she adds. <i>"Today the focus is more and more on the group and each child within the group, no longer just the children who bully and the children who are being bullied. We view bullying as not being about vulnerable children or mean children, but rather about unhealthy dynamics within a group. Therefore, if we are to effectively combat bullying, we have to engage everyone within the group. It's about the group, with the guidance and support of teachers and parents, creating a common set of values and a common understanding of what it means to be a good friend. Creating a culture where bullying within the group is seen as unacceptable. </i></div>
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<i>"This is the basic idea behind Free of Bullying — an anti-bullying program developed by the Mary Foundation and Save the Children Denmark (with inspiration from Australia's Alannah and Madeline Foundation's Better Buddies Program) which is today widely used throughout Denmark, and attracts increasing interest from other countries."</i> </div>
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The work is incredibly impressive and is no doubt one factor in the Crown Princess' popularity. Eighty-two per cent of the Danish population is now in support of a monarchy, up from 77 per cent before Crown Princess Mary joined the family. And it's paving the way for the Crown Prince Couple as they head closer to Crown Prince Frederik's future as King with his wife beside him as Queen Consort. The Crown Princess turns 46 in February and 2018 will mark 14 years since she joined Denmark's royal elite. Sorensen says Danes are not only thrilled with their Aussie royal, they are also really proud of her. </div>
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<i>"The Danish people feel that Crown Princess Mary really cares about Danes and is interested in all aspects of Danish society. Especially in her work for children with health or social problems and for women all around the world. By her international activities, the Crown Princess contributes to making Denmark visible on the global scene. Danes appreciate this a lot."</i> The first step towards bonding with her people was learning the language. <i>"Crown Princess Mary's Danish is very good, and she learned quickly,"</i> explains Sorensen. <i>"Especially in a small country like Denmark, it is important a person from abroad learns the language. It's about Danish national identity and self-understanding."</i> And while the pomp, ceremony and living quarters of royal life take the royal children into a whole different realm, the young princes' and princesses' daily lives are as `normal' as they can. Indeed as we go to press on this story, Crown Princess Mary is preparing to bring her family back home to Australia for the holiday season. Intriguingly, the Crown Prince Couple has managed to forge a unique and respectful relationship with the Danish public and media, and even though their family attracts crowds wherever it goes, this hasn't prevented them from venturing outside Palace walls. Unlike the British royals, who are plagued with paparazzi, this is a couple regularly seen around Copenhagen and left in peace. <i>"Crown Princess Mary rides her bike around Copenhagen with her children and she goes to sports with them such as horseback-riding, swimming and ballet,"</i> says Helle Bill Madsen, journalist and royal watcher at Denmark's popular Her&Nu magazine. <i>"What's more, she is considered a great, loving and supporting wife to Crown Prince Frederik."</i> It's been quite a journey from Aussie commoner Mary Donaldson to Crown Princess and it hasn't been completely plain sailing. </div>
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Loneliness is another of the cornerstone issues for the Mary Foundation, and while the Foundation's work is with chronic situations and debilitating social isolation, it is a topic the Crown Princess has personal experience of. <i>"I did experience a feeling of loneliness — short-term — when I first moved to Denmark,"</i> she admits. <i>"Moving to Denmark was a huge change in my life; a new culture, new language, new friends and another way of life. So, I see it as quite natural that at times I felt quite alone or a little bit like I was on the outside looking in. Luckily, I had a lot of caring and supportive people around me and I was also aware that it would take time to find my place and feel settled — to feel like I belong."</i></div>
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<i>"When we talk about loneliness, it's important to distinguish between short-term and long-term loneliness,"</i> the Crown Princess explains. <i>"Short-term and situation-specific loneliness is a natural part of life and something we can all experience when big changes in our lives happen, such as divorce, loss of a loved one or moving to a new environment. This is the body's way of reminding us that we should seek relationships with others. Loneliness over a longer period or chronic loneliness is different; it can lead to harmful consequences for our quality of life and health." The research the Foundation has carried out discovered that "employment and having a partner are protective factors when it comes to the risk of experiencing long-term loneliness". </i></div>
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The current Danish monarchy is suffering its own pangs of loneliness. Prince Henrik, 83, retired in 2016, leaving 77-year-old Queen Margrethe to shoulder the burdens of royal office alone. Denmark's Queen is positively youthful compared to 91-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, whose "rock", Prince Philip, 96, similarly retired this year, but for Queen Margrethe there were more troubling circumstances to deal with. </div>
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In September 2017, a heart-rending announcement revealed that Prince Henrik was suffering from dementia and together Denmark is supporting their Queen through this tough time. But the persistent rumour that Queen Margrethe will abdicate and hand over to her son continues to swirl despite Her Majesty stating she will hold the throne until she dies. </div>
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In the meantime, Crown Princess Mary has more work to do, and the the third focus area of the Mary Foundation is tackling the issue of domestic violence, now at epidemic levels globally. <i>"Violence against women is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world,"</i> explains the Crown Princess. <i>"It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. Globally, an estimated one in three women will experience sexual or physical violence in her lifetime, and gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and independence of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. </i></div>
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<b>Originally published by Australian Women's Weekly's January 2018 Issue. Interview by Juliet Rieden.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The royal house has today announced that his Royal Highness Prince Henrik does not want to be buried in Roskilde Cathedral, as it has otherwise been planned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Prince's decision implies that the Prince will not lie next to her Majesty Queen Margrethe under the sarcophagus that Professor and sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard has prepared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Queen has for some time been familiar with the decision of His Royal Highness and agrees with the decision. The Prince's decision does not change the Queen's funeral plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been promoted in the media that the Prince wants to be buried in France. This is not correct. The prince still wishes to be buried in Denmark, but the circumstances are not yet in place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Prince's changed funeral plans are not due, as the media have otherwise wondered that he should be buried in his native France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"It has been promoted in the media that the Prince wants to be buried in France. This is not correct. The prince still wishes to be buried in Denmark, but the circumstances are not yet in place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The royal office communications manager Lene Balleby tells BT that Prince Henrik's decision is due to dissatisfaction with his role in the Danish monarchy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The dissatisfaction has grown more and more in recent years. For the Prince, the decision not to be buried beside the Queen is the natural consequence of not having been treated equally in relation to his spouse - by not getting the title and function he has wanted, Lene Balleby says to BT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ekstra Bladet has previously written that it costed NOK 29 million to make the chapel clear and make a glass of sarcophagus.</span>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-59169869280567022912017-07-19T13:23:00.000-07:002017-07-19T13:23:26.779-07:00Märtha-Louise of Norway: "Critics don't affect me, I do not seek to be liked".<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">“Oh, Elena!” exclaims Märtha-Louise of Norway when she sees a portrait of the Infanta at the estate that will hold the photo session, near Aranjuez. The Princess, expert rider, knows the owner, who she has competed against in various occasions. “I will compete again in October”. Besides, two of her best Friends have a place near Málaga where she goes frequently. Casually, days after our encounter, her ex-husband, writer Ari Behn, will visit Jerez de la Frontera. Märtha-Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Oslo, 1971) is one lover of Spain that will enjoy the Madrid night as soon as the day ends. She has chosen a hotel at the center to stay in and asks for the hottest places to have dinner and a drink, even though the next day she will fly first hour in the morning to Frankfurt for the funeral of Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark and brother-in-law to Queen Margrethe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The firstborn of King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway and sister to the heir to the throne, Prince Haakon Magnus, is a very peculiar woman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">She studied physiotherapy. In 2002 she married Behn, a provocative novel writer —his most famous work is the Trist som faen collection (Sad as hell) published in 1999— that has also tried his luck on cinema, television, and painting. They have three daughters: Maud Angelica (14), Leah Isadora (12) and Emma Tallulah (8). They’re not Princesses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">During their 14 years of marriage, Behn alternated explosive declarations, like admitting that they had an open relationship or that he was a “bad husband” that drank daily, with appearances wearing a drag queen or homeless costume beside a poster saying “I’m a poor Norwegian writer/artist. Please, help me”. On December 2015, the press published a photo of Behn kissing the boobs of one well-known blogger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">—I have never talked about it. You can write that I’m okay and our relationship is a good one—she replies sharply.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The singularities of this Athletic and freckled woman, that transmits warmth but also steadiness, don’t en don her failed marriage with a mister that back in 2009 described himself as pathologically defiant, rebel and childish. “I create problems and involve people on compromising situations and stupid fights. It’s really difficult to live with me”, he recognized. Märtha-Louise is hypersensitive. Her 5th book about the topic, Born Sensitive, is a best seller in her country. A “hereditary talent” that has been written a lot about on the new age literature, and that she shares with the 15% or 20% of the population. “At the beginning, I thought that it affected everyone. If you enter a room and someone has a back pain, you have a back pain too. I wasn’t capable of detecting if the pain was mine or not —she tells—. It’s like constantly having an app downloading, with the correspondent energy waste. It’s draining. When the phone’s battery is dead you charge it; but, what do you do with your body?”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">This trait marked her childhood. “I was too tough, a little tomboy. I loved to climb trees, to ski, to ride my bicycle really fast and enjoy nature. But on the other side, I was too sensible. When I spent the weekend in the typical cabin in the woods with my friends, something really usual in Norway, all of the sudden I needed to go into the woods alone and sit under a tree to cry. I thought I was a weird bug… I was over stimulated”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Hypersensibility also affects the senses. The Princess remembers one anecdote. “My mother is very athletic. She has climbed almost every hill in Norway. She runs. I’m not capable of keeping her pace yet and she just turned 80. When she practiced activities out in nature she didn’t wear any makeup and smelled like her, like </span>mother<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">. But every time she went to a gala dinner, she put on Chanel N°5. She went to say goodbye and I could smell her perfume from 20m. Since then, I hate fragrances. It sickened me. I thought I would lose her.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Her status aggravated the situation. “Official obligations were a challenge. I remember going to a church and everyone turned their heads to see me. I felt judged and persecuted; I was unable to look them at the face. While I was walking down the aisle, I thought ‘My God, I have survived!’”. With everything, she doesn’t doubt to califícate her childhood and youth as happy ones. “Norway is a very free and equal country, there is no aristocracy. I grew in contact with people. I went to a public school. I was raised like any other child. Of course, I was always aware of my role and that my family environment was different.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">—You don’t wake up one morning and realize you’re a Princess. You are just born into that family and for you is natural.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Precisely to explain on what her role consists of, she published in 2005 a children’s book “Why Kings and Queens Don’t Wear Crowns. “Every time I want to an engagement, the parents pushed their children towards me while they wondered ‘Where is the Princess? And the Crown?’. That’s why I wrote it”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">In 2002 she renounced to the Royal Highness treatment so she could work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">“Now they just simply call me Highness, which is an enormous difference”, she said between laughter to ABC newspaper. Since then, she pays taxes as any other citizen. And she works where she likes. Five years later, she made public her hyper sensible condition and announced that she was going to concéntrate her efforts to help people with her same ability. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">She founded Astarté with her partner, Elisabeth Nordeng, and in 2014 she renamed it as Soulspring. A spiritual consulting that gives online courses. The decision was harshly criticized by the media in her country. Also by the Norwegian church, which her father is head of. Her most particular confession caused a big polemic. “My first contact with angels was when I was with my horses. I later understood the value of this enormous gift and wanted to share it with everyone.”, she published on her web.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">—There are energies around us. When you’re hypersensitive, you can contact them. It happens to many people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">She admits that her job is her biggest extravagance. And insists that she doesn’t care for the critics. “They don’t affect me. I was used to them saying that I wasn’t wearing the appropriate shoes or that I had done something wrong. I don’t do this for people to like me, but to help those who are interested. I don’t care what people think”. Today, she has 500 students on her eight courses. “There are all kinds of people: lawyers, doctors, businessmen or housewives”. Her public is mostly feminine. The Princess also has healing abilities, “but not focused only on physical pain, but to general well-being, to having a break in our lives. For me, that’s also healing”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Princess doesn’t regret anything in general. And everything thanks to her grandmother, Dagny Ulrichsen. “When I was 10, I asked her if she regretted something. ‘Of the things I haven’t done’, she replied. I decided to follow her example”. She doesn’t consider herself as a rebel. “I have tried to keep true to myself. Everyone has that right. I’m conscious that I’ve adopted decisions that other Princesses would never take. But there are also many like me; for example, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, sister to Princess Beatrix. I’m not alone!”. She has the support of her family, whom she is very united. “They always encouraged me to be myself. I suppose that at this time, my father regrets to insist so much”, she says between laughter. She laughs frequently. But when she hears a question that she considers inopportune, her blue look turns glacial. She can be as close as inflexible.</span></span></div>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-8103309104102497852017-07-13T10:31:00.000-07:002017-07-13T16:34:07.409-07:00Princess Madeleine's homage to her sister: "It will be fun".<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill have landed in Sweden to celebrate the Victorian 40th birthday of the Crown Princess.<br />
Exclusively to Expressen, the couple now tells how the family's private birthday celebration at Öland will look like - with dinner and gift delivery.<br />
<i>"Carl Philip and I have arranged a gift together,"</i> said Madeleine.<br />
Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill, who usually live in London, landed in Sweden on Monday.<br />
Since then, the couple has kept themselves lowkey and prepare before the big day. They have also met with friends and acquaintances. On Thursday Madeleine met her best friend Louise "Lussan" Gottlieb for lunch and they made several shopping together on the town.<br />
But tomorrow is the big day. Then the Crown Princess celebrates her 40th birthday.<br />
Madeleine and Chris will then attend the thanksgiving service in Stockholm and then fly to Öland to celebrate the Victorya Day organized there every year.<br />
But it will also be a private celebration, of course.<br />
<i>"It will be so much fun. It's always fun to celebrate my sister on her birthday,"</i>says Madeleine when Expressen meets her in Stockholm.<br />
Chris O'Neill also looks forward to the big day.<br />
<i>"We look forward to celebrating her birthday,"</i> he says, adding: <i>"My wife has arranged gifts from us. She has been responsible for steering it up,"</i> he says with a smile.<br />
When Princess Madeleine hears what her husband has said, she laughs.<br />
<i>"Well, I'm well the best part of our family,"</i> she says with the glimpse of the eye, and continues:<br />
<i>"No, but Carl Philip and I have arranged a gift together. We have spoken together."</i><br />
When will the Crown Princess get that gift?<br />
<i>"The program is full tomorrow, so I do not really know when it will be! Maybe it will be the day after,"</i> Madeleine says, laughing.<br />
<i>"No, it will be enough in the evening after she has been celebrated on Victora Day. Then we usually have a family dinner together and then we will celebrate her privately."</i><br />
The rest of the summer, Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill will stay mainly in Sweden, something that the couple looks forward to.<br />
This is where the entire royal family is gathered and Madeleine and Chris tell with great joy how they look forward to meeting the King, Queen and Victoria and Carl Philip with their respective families.<br />
<i>"It feels wonderful to be in Sweden. As always,"</i> Chris says.<br />
<i>"We are so excited to be in Sweden. The Swedish summer is the best, and spending it here and at Öland is something we appreciate very much,"</i>said Madeleine.<br />
Before Madeleine finishes she says smoothly:<br />
<i>"We look forward to this summer!"</i><br />
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<i>Original article published by Expressen.</i>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-90915719401490788152017-06-22T08:46:00.000-07:002017-06-22T08:46:22.748-07:00Princess Marie of Denmark: "My husband is a real Viking"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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While Denmark is often cited as an example for its social model and the well-being of its inhabitants, the wife of Prince Joachim welcomed us to the royal palace of Amalienborg to speak with enthusiasm and passion of her adoptive country.<br />
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<b>For years, Denmark has been considered "the country of happiness". How do you explain it?</b><br />
There are many factors. The social model, education and even the weather! The rigor of the climate justifies the Danes being so robust and courageous: no storm will stop them. Long winters also make them like to spend time at home, it is the famous "Hygge", this pleasure to stay together with the family, to share simple joys. We do that a lot too. Being at home, lighting candles everywhere for more cheerfulness, sitting by the fire, hearing the children playing inside, reading a good book, what could be more enjoyable? In general, Danes have a balanced relationship between work and family life.<br />
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<b>How does this happen?</b><br />
Here we do not work until 8 pm. My fellow citizens are effective, they avoid the loss of time and start their day early. Besides, as a Frenchwoman, I had rather Latin schedules. This required some rehabilitation to be fully productive at 6 in the morning! But I made it ... And with the children, anyway, we have to get up early. Another form of wisdom, the Danes are gifted enough to leave their laptops when they get home. It's difficult. For my part, I tend to want to respond quickly to the mails I receive.<br />
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<b>But you still have a "Danish" daily life?</b><br />
We live a simple life. I have a point of honor to take care of my children. They are all for me, and it is important that they are not brought up by people other than my husband and myself. Of course, we are fortunate enough to have some help in getting our job done, but I want to take on the job. If my daughter needs something, she calls me. Same for my son. Even if I tell them sometimes that I do not have time! (Laughter). We have the same existence as our fellow citizens, with the difference that when we work, the press is present.<br />
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<b>Is this exposition complex to manage?</b><br />
It depends on the personalities. It should be noted that, despite all good will, unfortunately we can not please everyone. In any case, I would not be able to play a role, not to be myself. This is how. I am doing my best. The human being has always been critical, perhaps today with the social networks that is more understood, but I know how to concentrate on what is important.<br />
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<b>If you were to describe in three adjectives the Danish spirit...</b><br />
First in everything, positive, without hesitation.<br />
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<b>It looks like you!</b><br />
I may look very cheerful, but you know, I can also be quite French ... (laughs). Otherwise the other two adjectives that immediately come to me are: peaceful and honest. You can really count on the Danes.<br />
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<b>Your fellow citizens are so honest that we find at the entrance to restaurants and shops strollers with sleeping children in without relatives in the immediate vicinity...</b><br />
It's actually great. This shows that the Danes feel good, they are not afraid, they trust. It is a safe country, where society works harmoniously. This does not mean that the model is exportable all over the world.<br />
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<b>Is this harmony linked to the small size of the country?</b><br />
The size probably plays, because the territory is homogeneous. But we must also take into account our very ancient history. We have the oldest monarchy in Europe and are deeply attached to our traditions. At the same time, the country is very modern. Education also plays a great role.<br />
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<b>In which way?</b><br />
In Denmark, it is taught not to compare each other. The idea is to be happy with what you are, with what you have. This avoids jealousy and competition. At school, there are no notes, for example, until very late. Everyone is on the same level. Children do not feel devalued. They do not doubt of themselves. You can always find negative aspects, but it seems to me that on the whole, it is fundamentally positive. Particularly because children like to learn. My son cries if he can't go to school! He is overjoyed to go there in the morning.<br />
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<b>What are the keys to learning?</b><br />
The creativity of children is very encouraged. They are taught to be themselves, not to be stressed. In France, we had, from toddlers, satchels filled with very heavy books. Here, children enter school only at the age of 6. It is considered that before they need to play. I have adopted this idea for one of my children, the other will start a little before 6 years because I feel it is the right time. Each personality is different.<br />
Another Danish feature is that there are less classes per day here. My son starts for example at 8 am and finishes at 1 pm. Then the afternoon is devoted to extra-curricular activities such as sports, art, music or excursions. This afternoon, my son leaves to the forest to go and watch animals. They are outdoors as often as possible, and the connection with nature is fundamental. From birth, babies sleep a lot on the outside.<br />
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<b>Even in extreme cold?</b><br />
Be careful when the temperature falls below 0°C. (Laughter). The first time my husband showed me this method, I was ... quite surprised! I was frankly frightened, but I was quickly converted. Children sleep visibly very well ...<br />
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<b>Do you have any education what's coming from your family?</b><br />
I am very riding on the fundamentals. Politeness of course, good manners at the table ... For example, children do not have to interrupt adults who are talking. They have to look carefully at the person they say hello. I am very strict on these points, and I find that it does not prevent a child from being free, having fun and feeling loved. Respect for adults is very important. We must be able to live together. There are moments of adults and moments of children.<br />
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<b>Your father-in-law is of French descent, would you say your husband is a perfect Dane?</b><br />
He resembles his mother very much, he inherited a great creativity. He is very talented in artistic fields even if nobody knows. From his father, he took elegance, a considerable culture and also a good living side. He's of an ultrapositive nature and very equanimous. I've never seen him in a bad mood! He will always see the bright side of things. He never complains. He's indeed a perfect Dane while being open to the world, since he has chosen a foreign woman.<br />
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<b>And your children?</b><br />
They are really a mixture of the two of us. With a little of my spirit of freedom. They have a formidable character and a great curiosity.<br />
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<b>Since in Denmark we value simple pleasures, could you tell us what are your "little pleasures"?</b><br />
Go and get my kids to school. I do not get enough of it. Being with my husband just before dinner. Drink a glass of wine together, talk about our days. And then the great walks in nature. I can walk for hours. As soon as I have the opportunity, I walk. On the other hand, I do not like running!<br />
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<b>Is there a Danish proverb that strikes you at the corner of common sense?</b><br />
<i>"The word is silver and the silence is golden."</i> It also exists in French, but it seems to me particularly adapted to the Danish spirit. My fellow citizens speak very little about themselves. They know how to listen, which sometimes makes them a little silent. I find this ability to be interested in others charming.<br />
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<b>On the contrary, are there any clichés about Denmark that annoy you?</b><br />
What for example?<br />
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<b>That it is a country of Vikings.</b><br />
It's also true. My husband is never sick. He never goes to the doctor. He's very tough. It's quite a Viking. They have very good genetics!<br />
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<b>That all the Danes travel by bike ...</b><br />
That is true! Even the ministers. You see even very sophisticated women, in stiletto heels, facing the rain and the wind, or mothers who use it to drop their children to school. I totally adopted this habit: I take my son, my daughter and my dog! Everyone does it.<br />
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<b>The dog must be of reasonable size, then?</b><br />
Yes, it's a curly bichon. It's called Apple. I had her before coming to Denmark.<br />
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<b>How old is she?</b><br />
12 years old and has an absolute obligation to stay fit. I want her to stay with us for a very long time.<br />
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<b>Did some things surprise you when you arrived in Denmark?</b><br />
People who bathe in the winter! It seems that this creates a real feeling of euphoria. I will try it because I am very curious and I do not want to die silly ...<br />
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<b>Another important part of a culture: gastronomy...</b><br />
The Nordic and Danish kitchens are now extremely popular and internationally renowned. Tourists from all countries come to discover this culinary school based on the naturalness of the products, the importance of organic, the creativity of the agreements. I am also a patron of the Copenhagen Cooking & Food Festival, which is a great pleasure for me because I am very glutton! And this commitment goes hand in hand with another mission that is dear to me, the fight against food waste. Denmark is a pioneer in this fight. We are taking more initiatives on this issue than any other European country.<br />
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<b>Could you tell us a traditional dish that you particularly like?</b><br />
I like to cook a lot and one of my favorite recipes is the fæskesteg, the "crispy pork", which is eaten almost like chips. It is eaten all over the country, however it is not very "dietetic". Another delicious thing: the bread of rye, there are two hundred different kinds. We do not have white bread here. I also cook French dishes of course...<br />
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<b>If you were to introduce our readers to your country, where would you start?</b><br />
When friends come to visit us, I like to show them the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Louisiana Museum outside Copenhagen, but also the small galleries of the city. The Opera is worth a visit, as are the ballets at the Royal Theater: a must! Finally, the magnificent castles are truly the historical identity of the country. And what could be more enjoyable than a walk on the beautiful Nyhavn harbor with of course a mandatory passage to Tivoli for the children ... and the parents! Another thing to discover absolutely and that fascinates me: the design that has become one of our trademarks. It began in the 1950s and since this purified, ultra-modern trend, has not stopped developing.<br />
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<b>Do you have any houses to recommend us?</b><br />
A tour at llumsbolighus will give you a good idea of the Danish style. There are some for all generations. The classics and the oldest such as Royal Copenhagen porcelain, furniture by Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl or Fritz Hansen, silver and jewelery by Georg Jensen ... You will also find new houses such as Hay , Very young and creative, Normann Copenhagen or Muuto. The architecture is really dynamic too. Today we have the chance to see the success of the young architect Bjarke Ingels. At just 42 years old, he creates exceptional places around the world. For example, he was selected to build the second tower of the World Trade Center and the Google campus in California, while in Copenhagen he is preparing to build a waste incinerator whose roof will be transformed into a... ski run. In France, he oversees the Europacity project, near Roissy.<br />
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<b>Even in the country of happiness, there are things to improve, could you tell me about the causes for which you have committed yourself?</b><br />
Wherever you are, you have to pay attention to the most vulnerable among us. I take care as much as possible of those with disabilities, such as autistic children or people with epilepsy. I also work with the foundation of the fight against AIDS. These moments are important to me. I love to spend time with these people, and I am proud to live in a country that takes care of its people.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pointdevue.fr/familles-royales/danemark/princesse-marie-de-danemark-mon-mari-est-un-vrai_1996.html" target="_blank">Originally published by Point de Vue</a>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-8294012337992880982017-06-22T07:58:00.001-07:002017-06-22T07:58:40.818-07:00Interview: "My whole life is for Sweden" - Crown Princess Victoria talks about her personal life.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The interview was done on a glassed-in veranda facing the private part of the garden behind the palace. From here you can see the gravel path and into the sandbox on the playground, where the aunts of the Crown Princess - the Haga Princesses - played in childhood.<br />
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<b>What did you feel after returning to Haga?</b><br />
It was something very special for me, I did not have the opportunity to meet my grandparents, so when I moved to Haga, I learned a lot about what was important to them, what was important for their children - it's incredible. It seems that I'm getting closer to them, trying to find out.<br />
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<b>How do you combine your activities with the role of the mother of a 5-year-old girl and a one-year-old baby?</b><br />
I have many responsibilities, but I want to be a really good mother, real, I also want to be a mother who is a role model, and I admit that it's not easy to do. Unfortunately, I miss many important moments of my children's life. To those people who want to carefully monitor them to take care of them and educate them themselves. I watch them, and often record their small victories and undertakings.<br />
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<b>The king once expressed the hope that you would be "a mother and care for your family" as long as possible, before it's time to take on his responsibilities.</b><br />
"It's a different time now, not the same as before, I'm often at home, they're still young, and I still need them very much. With age, when they grow up, it can change." Oscar is very calm. "Quietly calm. He is calm and respectful of people and loves his older sister. Estelle is very cheerful, loves people, she's self-confident and has a great sense of humor and she is very caring"<br />
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<b>Tell us about the day after the terrorist attack, when you came to Drottinggatan to pay tribute to the victims.</b><br />
"I felt great sorrow, all of Stockholm, all of our society, plunged into it, it was an attempt to hit us, but we showed that we can be a united backgammon, take part in the universal sorrow."<br />
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<b>How did you cope with anorexia?</b><br />
"It was a hard period, I was lost for a long time, nothing unusual at that age, I'm grateful that I got help because it's not so easy to get out of that situation when you feel very bad."<br />
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"I'm not a closed person, I feel much better when I'm on the street. So for me it means a lot - to get out, enjoy a walk or run, walk with the kids. "<br />
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<b>One day you will have to sit on the throne.</b><br />
"My whole life is for Sweden It may seem pretentious, but I feel it, it's true, I see my parents and their tireless work, and I notice with joy how they do it, with never-ending interest. I hope that I can experience the same joy at their age."<br />
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"Aaa ... It flows fast enough, I do not feel like a 40-year-old, but Princess Lillian always said that you are who you feel, in that case she's right, because I do not feel that I'm 40. Right now I'm ready to begin my summer vacation!"<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the walkway outside the school there is a Prince. He is there to learn more about how the students at Bällstaberg School in Vallentuna combine study and movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of the 4C class is out on glossary. This means that they take turns after laps along a small loop, while they are training to understand different English words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">When I'm going to learn something, I usually go for a walk. I bring the paper that I'm going to read,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His visit is a surprise for the children. Kerstin Nilsson, associate professor and teacher in sports and health, has prepared the students for Dagens Nyheter to come. But she has not revealed that the purpose of our visit is to make an interview with a member of the Royal Family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was the court that chosen the place of the meeting: Bällstaberg School is featured on the Prince's list of schools that he wants to visit, schools that try to get the pupils in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Kerstin Nilsson's lessons in sport and health, it is not a question of letting school classes race to the high jump rink or that students can choose teams on the soccer field.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"Now we are in the forest almost all the time with adventures and we play. We drive in the rough terrain and that gives students versatile exercise and balance</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, she tells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her guest can only praise that attitude: Swedish schools have to go back to the movement.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"For many, sport lessons can be an exposed environment. Here is the weakest link that must be given the chance. Those who play football and hockey and basketball and exercise five times a week and have parents who are warm to them, they do not need more stimuli. They need to learn to adapt to those who don't have it so easy, "</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kerstin Nilsson tells that she encouraged the parents to go out and move together with the children now on the spring edge. Such suggestions may well work for many of the families in Vallentuna's residential neighborhood.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"But depending on who the recipient is, it can be very tough. If I'm a single mother-in-law who works in health care, then I'm not wondering if I'm going to stand out and jog with my children. I will have the clothes clean and the food in order, "</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what we meet in Vallentuna: A Royal that wants to talk about equality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Bällstaberg School there is a blue flag, but the study visit takes place without any ceremonies. Instead, it happens to be crazy hair day. We meet students with wigs and artificial pastries in the hair. A teacher has released the hair into a cactus wrinkle. The racer wears a diadem with two rocking hearts.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"I was getting a little extra this morning. I would also like to be a little crazy,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he assures the students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I embrace myself by turning the "prince" and "you" into the appeal, with an inconsistency that can cure both royalists and republicans in the reading circle. When I regret, he quickly says there is nothing he reflects on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was last summer that the Crown Princess couple launched Generation Pep, a non-profit organization that brings together big companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations in the fight for children and young people's health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">It's a paradox. We belong to those who exercise most in Europe, and to those who are most quiet,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the prince finds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Both he and his wife, Crown Princess Victoria, have noticed the differences during their travels in the country.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"We have good conditions, we are just getting more and more aware. Those who already have it tough financially and socially, they are those who always suffer from disease and even there is the hardest thing. One may feel that it is so unfair,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prince Daniel has taken the impression of Scapis (Swedish cardiopulmonary bioimage study). It is a unique study in which all six university hospitals collaborate to study the presence of cardiovascular disease and lung diseases with studies of 30,000 people.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"In the pilot study in Gothenburg, it was seen that those living in areas where they are less privileged and have a worse financial situation, they have twice the risk of having a stroke, depression and myocardial infarction. And they have up to three times higher risk of type 2 diabetes,"</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">And I mean: what? In Sweden? Today? Depending on where you were born? It's so incredibly unfair. And this is part of my commitment to this issue. We can not have it like this. We must try to change it with common forces. Everyone must ask themselves how they can contribute.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are several high-ranking politicians who find it hard to be as committed as the Prince when they are agitating against injustice. But his dedication also raises questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who see the Monarchy as the height of inequality, it is not clear how a member of the Royal Family should address class differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"I think it's quite clear that I can gather and one lot of strong forces in a common endeavor to improve, for example, public health,"</i> replies Prince Daniel. </span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, hopefully, you will write about this in a good way. Those who read your newspaper may not be the most vulnerable. But there are perhaps many decision makers and people who can influence their own environment and have the resources and ability to engage. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We want all children in Sweden to be able to move for sixty minutes a day. If we can get it, we would change public health enormously.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The latest initiative from Generation Pep is a collaboration with Bonnier Carlsen with a book in the series Saga-sagas by Josefine Sundström and Emma Göthner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Nice Body and Pretty Button" is about how Saga tries to embroider an S and is sent out to play. After an adventurous moment in the fresh air, the task goes a lot better. Readers will also learn about the body and the brain, and some tips on fun everyday games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The book will be published to all 4-5 year olds in Stockholm.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"I've read it to Estelle and she loves it,"</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Just reading for our children is so incredibly important. This time I personally value it so highly, because you get close and you can talk about everything possible. I see this as a little inspiration and education. How easy it is to take the kids out. So spontaneal that is so important. It's about adding positive habits. It permeates our thinking. We know it's so hard to take away the bad habits. Then we want people to add.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">These tips on everyday movements - like ramp dancing and living pyramids - will you try it out at Haga?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Yes I hope so! But it is also the case that we are the ones who are out with our children. It is not us who have problems. It's great fun to hear what we do. But I'm not worried about Estelle and Oscar when it comes to these pieces.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is not everyone in the schoolyard who recognizes the man in the red-randed shirt and understands that it is a member of the Royal Family who took part in the ball game "King" at Bällstaberg School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those who think about it find it funny when the Prince can advance in the field and change the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not just the ball game "King"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> who has to stick to the frames. Even for a member of the real Royal Family, certain restrictions apply. When a successful gym owner marries a Crown Princess, he must take good care of life as an entrepreneur. It took nine years from the first meeting to the wedding, so he thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His life has taken the most special of turns. However, his interest in sport and health forms a straight line from growth to today.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"You do not choose the career I did if you do not desire to change people's health. I have devoted all my adult life to it. As a teenager, I also dedicated myself to training and writing training programs to others and trying to inspire friends and the environment to live healthy. I knew early that I would work with people and sports and health,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a teenager, Daniel Westling received the message that he had a congenital but non-inherited disease on the kidneys, and that he eventually needed a transplant. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">From time to time, his future plans were affected - not at all.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"I did not believe the doctor when he said I would need a new kidney at any time. I was the world's most active and did not feel any symptoms,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was far later that he understood that he was actually suffering from a disease. But then there was also a suitable donor: Dad Olle Westling gave a kidney to his son in May 2009.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">- Not at all, so long as I suffer in some way. But it has given me a deeper understanding when someone says "I am sick, I feel bad, I have these concerns." If I continue to feel like this, I can feel that experience has been good and that it has added something to my life. A humility for life and for others who are much worse.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even during the illness, he tried to keep physically alive, albeit at a low level. He sees it as an example of how people adapt to the conditions.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">During these years and even before the last refugee crisis, Victoria and I have met very many unaccompanied refugees and have been in refugee camps focusing on single-born refugees. No comparisons in general. But we humans are amazing at getting through things. We adapt. We accept. Let's move on. We buy the situation. You can not lay down and die. There's always somebody who's worse,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He would like to take this opportunity to peep others with their positive experiences from the transplant.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">If I go to take samples, I usually try to ask the doctor if they can plan so I can meet some families and some children that are going through something. Then I can be a good example of how it can go.</i></div>
<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">It has almost given me more gratitude and humility to life than my own situation. Because it went quite sharply anyway.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Between 1994 and 1996 the future Prince studied sports education at a public high school. There was an awareness of the problems that people moved too little and ate too much already. But Sweden has also changed since then.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Just take the soda. What did you drink? What size? Take the fast food entry in Sweden. It has been a very fast development,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A private trip to the United States with Crown Princess Victoria 12-14 years ago made a strong impression.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">By the coast we came to a long pier into the water with big stones. Just like when I was a child, I began to bounce between the stones on it. It was not the same excitement, though, the gods will know. But we got such energy and thought back on how we could go on like that when we were children. One bounced out. But then I see a guy. A giant overweight guy. He goes on all four. Zero joy. Just anxiety. He could not stand upright on these stones because he was so overweight.</i></div>
<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">It was such a moment when I felt that this should not be it.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was in February 2009 that Daniel Westling and Crown Princess Victoria announced their engagement. In a small movie, the prince found that his primary task would be to support his wife and her important role for Sweden. But he also wanted to contribute himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Healthcare and entrepreneurship is what I'm passionate about,</i> he said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I had enough thoughts early on how I could use my interests in this role, with this incredible platform,</i> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In conjunction with the wedding in June 2010, a foundation was established to counteract exclusion and promote good health. Since then, Prince Daniel has also spent time on the Prince Daniel Fellowship and the task of supporting young people to become entrepreneurs.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I do not drop those questions, not at all. But now in recent years I have started thinking more and more and putting more and more time on health issues. If you are to succeed in things then you have to focus and not do everything at the same time. It was the place to create something new,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An entrepreneur is usually described as a person dare to try new and see opportunities rather than obstacles. I think it was with the entrepreneur's eyes that the former gym owner Daniel Westling entered his new role as Prince.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He does not protest against that description.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">-That's how it is. Absolutely. I have the ability to want and dare to do things and test. I would not mind if I did not try to make the most of my possibilities. Then we'll see. Come back in 30 years and see if I've done anything.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">When can you feel this falls in place?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I have never thought," What should I do? ". We make lots of exciting things, with our travels and meetings with people. We try to draw attention to key issues. There is so much to do. It is important to prioritize and do things that make a difference.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just six years ago, I followed the Crown Princess couple in the tracks when they went to Ockelbo. It was the Prince's first official visit to his home municipality.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I'm incredibly homely. I really love Ockelbo. To my hometown in this role ... It's clear that I thought before: How should this be?</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the train with the Royals rolled in to the train station in Ockelbo, the hill was facing the village packed with people. Old and young.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">What a great thing it was. To see everyone, from the youngest and then the entire age range. I remember how my friend and big brother stood there and waved and said hello. Then I met my old colleague at the retirement home and hugged her.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess couple's journey continued on some worn countryside roads to villages and companies: Window manufacturers, Pannkaksfabriken, Museijärnvägen. Vikortsvackra was the hills and valleys of the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I best remember the older ladies who got up at the roadside to get a glimpse of the royals on the way to the Åmot public park. The schedule was hectic, yet the minibus brake. The Crown Princess couple stepped out and greeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The tants became so happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>- What privilege to have a situation where you can enjoy happiness just by saying hi and watching someone in your eyes and asking how are they. It's an incredible luxury,</i> says Prince Daniel. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>It is one of the strengths of our state that we have the ability to donate joy and draw attention. But then you have to like it. It's very easy if you think it's fun to stay there. You have to think it's fun to come out here at school and meet teachers and students.</i></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Has that role always felt comfortable?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I have been in charge of the job in various contexts, and have had the staff to enjoy and create energy and see people. Just like my dad. We are very similar, he and I. He is also social and thinks it's fun to be with people and to create energy.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Olle Westling worked for a period as Social Manager in Ockelbo. He has never given interviews about his relationship with the Royal Family. But after a few hours at the Bällstaberg School in Vallentuna, I think that his work with vulnerable he has been an important source of inspiration for a future Prince.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a 22 miles trip between Stockholm and Ockelbo. It is the distance between a growing metropolis and a shrinking rural community north of Dalälven. Perhaps we get stuck in the subject because I come from the countryside too. But Prince Daniel repeatedly recalls how he feels strength and joy to grow up in Ockelbo.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"You care about each other and have a sense of community and unity that is incredibly strong,"</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was also a strong ideal commitment. An example was the ski slope run by the Open Air Promotion. During the winters it was an obvious gathering place.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">- Every weekend there was a family who drove this facility. My parents were also included. Then we were in other smaller backs as well. Then you had mini slides. And then you jumped up the hill and drove down,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not just the memories from the ski slope and, for that matter, the basketball court and the hockey stick that makes him pay tribute to the upbringing. There was and is something else too. That everyone can join.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He tells about people with disabilities who always had a place in society.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">It is clear that, as a child, I may not be listed in those who had difficulties. There have always been those who lived in challenging situations. But I feel that this trust and this social security network were so very strong where I grew up. Everybody knows everyone in a small society, one knows who is the parent of what child and his brother, his sister. I believe that the strong trust is one of the success factors on which Swedish society is based. Of course, there is a difference in trust if you live in Ockelbo, compared to whether you live in a big city with many people with no relation.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">A Prince who was raised in the countryside - what perspective does the Royal Family bring?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe the King or Queen should answer. They are the Stockholmers who have been in most of the rural areas. They have traveled around a lot. I think they understand as well as me and know how it is in rural areas.</i></div>
<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">At the same time, it is clear that I am very pleased that my wife has her background, and I have mine, and they are very different. I think we give our children very good through it. I have worked with children with special needs, I have worked with retirees, I have run my own business and encountered all possible people. It has enriched me very much. And it's experiences that I have a lot of enjoyment in the role I have now.</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I think we can broaden it to the whole community. I think of the scouts, the open air promotion, Friskis & sweat. We hope that we will be able to maintain this so that we parents today who think we are so incredibly important and stressed that we take the time to practice teams and engage in the scouts. So it does not happen that you do not have time and that any professional should do it. There is, of course, a quality in it, but I also think that there is a quality of being involved as a parent.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Can it be done if you are a part of the Royal Family?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I speak less about myself and more generally. But that's not impossible. Now Estelle goes to dance and I'm not the right person to step in there. Even if I like to dance.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">But you go to games?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Exactly. Being with your children is the best activity. I also think it's important to let the kids be in all environments. One should know how the subway works and how it is to go by bus and how it is to quit and what it is like to feel this passion in the sports movement when there's a game and the Black Army sings for full neck. That's something I do not want them to miss.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the teacher's room, cakes and a craft await, and I wonder what it's like to be a health conscious Royal woman and always meet with dignity.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">It's worse if you come to a hometown farm and there are some older women who make sure that their business survives. Then they have baked seven kinds of cakes. Then I take seven varieties and enjoy it,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He is used to questions about how he can live healthy with all the fine dining. The answer is that it's okay just watching the alcohol.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">You could drink seven glasses of wine. But you do not have to. If you want to drink at all, you can take very little. And then I think the food is so good. Even if there are three, four dishes,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prince Daniel does not complain. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the contrary, he repeatedly emphasizes how privileged he is.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">He might be in the coolest team if he did not always return to the injustices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before Kerstin Nilsson goes on to her lesson - where she will be part of a crazy hair day with a big banana in plastic as a headdress - she tells us that it was the 1994 curriculum that made her think differently about how she would get the students in motion .</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Then you went to sport from three occasions a week to two or one occasion at some schools. It was in that turn that I began to think. Can we get moving during school days, at the classes in, for example, Swedish and math? We felt that we all need to be helped. Then there has been a catastrophic decline in the students' fitness, stamina and versatile mobility over the past ten years,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prince Daniel points out that there are schools that do not even have a gymnasium.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">What I understand, they run one or two weeks of intensive camp somewhere. A few days from morning to evening to prick the subject, </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Generation Pep has devoted a lot of time to understanding how Swedish students are, and the organization plans to do more in the school environment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The members of the Royal Family are expected to avoid taking a stand in social issues with party political charge. It makes it difficult to, for example, discuss economic allocation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I ask Prince Daniel to try to give his opinion on how the health gaps in society arose, he just points to the role of the school.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">We need a school where teachers get the opportunity to do their job. Professional teachers are so incredibly important. That they should be given the opportunity to provide good education and that students should be able to receive this education, it feels like a very important reason. Then it is clear that there are people coming to Sweden with different things in their luggage, and they may need more support than what we grew up in small municipalities in the 70s and 80s. But it's about resources and that the one who does not really have the conditions gets support and help.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Prince returns to the example of the single-parent mother of three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You can not expect that person to have energy after work to be the world's best in supporting their children in physical activities. The school has an incredibly important role. That's the reason. All children are in school. It is so important for our equality.</i></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Is it in school that it has broken?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">It's very different how it looks in schools. Both knowledge and health. Getting good education and getting health, it feels like two extremely important and basic things to build our future on.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In December, the Crown Princess couple released a film where the spouses wished a merry Christmas together with their children from a sizzling sausage grill in Tyresta National Park.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">We would like to inspire. We have incredible environments close to us, even us that live in big cities. We like to be out in nature and want our children to have the same opportunities we have had to feel safe in that environment, </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">says the prince.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess couple lives at Haga Palace with Haga Park around the knot.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Now Estelle is in the age when she's learning to cycle and it's incredibly fun.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">What can we think about getting children in motion in the summer?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Generally, our children are hooking on us. They do what we do. We may interest them for different things. I have a wife who is incredibly skilled and knowledgeable in everything that has to do with nature. Estelle can already be sure - I do not know how many kinds of flowers and birds and plants she knows better than me. Children do what we do, not what we say. Test what's going on for the kids and what they think is fun.</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Keep together in big and small - is it that we are supposed to summarize the message from Haga Palace?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where the Republicans sees the Monarchy as an obstacle to equality, the royalist chooses to describe the Royal House as a symbol of a national community.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">We are from a time when everyone looked at the "Children's Journal" because today it is so individualistic. We can be a one-way force. Just take our wedding. There were half a million people on Stockholm's streets and squares. It was this joy,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> says Prince Daniel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess couple visited Drottninggatan the day after the terror attack on April 7 this year. Crown Princess Victoria received the question of how Sweden would move on and responded, noticeably touched, in a single word: </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Together."</i></b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">"She has the ability to put words on things,"</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he says.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">What did the prince learn from it?</b></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">It is not even possible to compare ourselves. She is so good and strong and has the ability to feel and see where an encouraging word and a pat on the shoulder when they are needed. But we both are really interested in people and have a strong social commitment. It is very stimulating to have a wife who has been involved in so many exciting things.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When Prince Daniel describes his mission, it sounds as if the own school of Royalty never ends.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">You can of course say and think, "What do they know about how common people are?" Yes, maybe more than most of the people.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">We meet everyone, from those who have the most difficult lives, to those who decide, and everyone in between. The entrepreneurs. The lonely mother. It is a benefit to gain that insight and hopefully deeper knowledge and understanding of the world in which we live. I feel so privileged that I have these opportunities. I feel grateful.</i><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.dn.se/arkiv/lordag/prins-daniel-om-halsoklyftorna-i-skolan-vi-kan-inte-ha-det-sa-har-vi-maste-med-gemensamma-krafter/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Original interview in Swedish</a></li>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-53743830129956005002017-05-09T17:10:00.000-07:002017-05-09T17:10:35.202-07:00The King and Queen 80th anniversary: The Queen's speech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your Royal Highnesses,<br />Excellencies,<br />What an evening!<br />If I had known it was going to be <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this</em> fun, I would have liked to turn 80 a long time ago! But to be quite frank: Just like my husband, I don’t feel like 80 at all.<br />Let us take this with us in our everyday lives, wherever we live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear friends and family,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has helped me describe why in his famous novel “Love in the Time of Cholera”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To me, that explains it beautifully! Isn’t this true to all of us..?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I would like to add an aspect that my husband always reminds me of: The importance of playing, of having fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we where in South Africa in February, the two of us suddenly found ourselves in quite a rare situation: We were sitting quietly next to each other – for the second day! – reading our books. Then Harald turned to me and said slowly: “Sonja, this is the closest we’ll ever get to retirement.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to thank each and every one of you who have contributed here tonight. Thank you so much for warm words and for great fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You have made this evening unforgettable!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Queen Margrethe, you have been a vital support all since I became part of this family. In addition to being an invaluable adviser, you are a close friend with whom I share common interests like nature and the arts. Thank you so much for all our walks and talks, and for your ability to discover comic aspects on special occations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I feel deeply privileged to be able to share this celebration with you all tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to thank Haakon and Märtha, Mette, Ari – and all our wonderful grandchildren, for a relationship based on trust, love and respect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to thank you for shared experiences and adventurous trips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing matters more at this stage in life – feeling that we belong together and that we can enjoy each other’s company across generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to thank Haakon and Mette in a very special way. Thank you for the strength we feel by working together, by giving each other space, showing each other understanding and support. Thank you for your openness, for discussions, and for fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And dear Märtha, thank you for being who you are. Thank you for being such a couragous person and loving daughter. In difficult periods, your laughter lights up the day and makes us all happy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to thank the rest of our family, Princess Astrid in particular, and our friends – some of you have been with us for almost 80 years! That is invaluable – and perhaps especially in lives like ours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now – we are celebrating birthdays. I have already received my present from my husband. He is known for being a modest man, so he gave me one of his own belongings: A stable, which was already in his possession here on the Palace grounds. The stable will be transformed into a gallery open to the public as Queen Sonja Art Stable, in July. Not that I am not grateful – I really am! In fact, I was completely overwhelmed and deeply touched…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I decided to give you something in return, my dear Harald. My gift to you is also a house, it is a “stabbur”, a store house, for the royal cottage Prinsehytta in Sikkilsdalen. A store house was in the old days used as a place to keep and preserve food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So when I admire art in the stable, you can admire the victims of your hunting and fishing in the stabbur! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In closing, I would like to repeat and build on Harald’s call to gratitude for life in his welcoming speech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day is a gift that we should never take for granted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day is an opportunity to do good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day we can be there for our loved ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And we can acknowledge those who need to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because above all – regardless of roles – we are human beings. People who are meant to support each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you – each and every one of you – so much for being here, for sharing this celebration with us! This is truly a night to remember!</span></div>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-58108028188015463702017-04-19T14:51:00.002-07:002017-04-19T14:51:39.514-07:00Crown Princess Victoria in Japan - Day 2.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess's second day in Tokyo began with a visit to an Aeon supermarket. Aeon is Japan's leading retail group, which operates malls, department stores, supermarkets and pharmacies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The company is one of Japan's key actors in sustainable fishing, and they are actively working to integrate sustainability aspects into their purchasing policies for fish and shellfish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the afternoon, the Crown Princess participated in a seminar on the UN Global Sustainability Goal, </span>organised<span style="font-family: inherit;"> by UN University in Tokyo. The theme of the seminar was the promotion of the UN's global sustainability goals with a particular focus on sustainable seas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess gave the following speech:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your Imperial Highness,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rector, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ladies and Gentlemen.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just over 60 years ago, Japan joined the United Nations as its 80th member: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Secretary-General at the time was Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat with a great interest in Japanese poetry. His diary notes, published after his death, contained 110 haiku inspired poems.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the time of Dag Hammarskjöld’s secretary-generalship, the environment was barely on the UN agenda. It was an age of ecological innocence.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, we know better. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, we know that environmental crime – like poaching, wildlife trafficking and illicit fishing – is a global security issue. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We know that the effects of climate change affect poor countries to a greater extent than richer parts of the world. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we need only to open a newspaper to read about drought-related violence killing men, women and children.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The facts are there, in plain sight. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The question is: how do we act upon them? </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I would like to quote something that the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld said at the University of Chicago in 1960. In a speech that he would later refer to as his “confession of faith”, he stated:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Working at the edge of the development of human society is to work on the brink of the unknown”. </span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He added that much of what is done will one day prove to have been of little avail. But, he said, there is no excuse for the failure to act in accordance with our best understanding. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our best understanding. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The facts on the table.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A year and a half ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its 17 global goals. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was a major achievement by the member states. I am convinced that Japan, with its long history of great contributions to the work in the UN, will be a force to reckon with in the years to come.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All my life, I have had the privilege to live near the water. My most precious childhood memories are connected to the sea. So when I had the honour to be appointed as Advocate for the global sustainable development goals, it was an obvious choice for me to focus on issues related to water and health. It is this commitment that has brought me to Japan - and to this seminar here at the UN University.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, we are going to talk about sustainable oceans. But what we are really talking about is our ability to feed a growing global population. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fish is the largest source of animal protein in the world. But almost 60 percent of all stocks are already fully fished. 30 percent are even overfished.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let there be no doubt: the situation is urgent! </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The figures can be overwhelming. But let us remember: together, we have a superpower. The power of consumer demand. The choices we make in our everyday lives have enormous impact on the future of our planet.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As consumers, we have a right to know and an obligation to ask. We need to let producers know that we want the right choice to be the easy choice. So please, let us make use of that superpower! Today and every day.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dag Hammarskjöld spoke about working on the brink of the unknown. Today, just like then, we have more questions than we have answers about the future. </span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will we be able to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius? </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will we succeed in our efforts to end poverty and hunger?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And will future generations thank us for what we did, or blame us for not doing more? </span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The truth is, we don’t know. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But we do know that Dag Hammarskjöld was right: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We all have a moral obligation to act in accordance with our best understanding. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And right now, that means doing everything we can to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not only our obligation; </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">it is our only option.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the seminar discussions about the global goals were held, how young people can be inspired to contribute to the achievement of the goals and the state of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The seminar is linked to the forthcoming UN conference The Ocean Conference, held in June in New York. Sweden and Fiji have jointly taken the initiative to support the work of saving the world's ocean and achieving the global sustainable development target for marine and marine resources, Objective 14 of the UN Agenda 2030.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crown Princess's day ended with a dinner together with Princess Takamado of Japan.</span><br />
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<br />Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-24534666416253394962017-04-18T15:33:00.000-07:002017-04-18T15:33:19.259-07:00Crown Princes Victoria in Japan - Day 1.<div class="tr_bq">
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From Tuesday 18 april to Friday 21 april, Crown Princess Victoria is on a visit to Japan. The trip aims to deepen the Crown Princess's work in sustainability, marine and fishing issues - issues that the Crown Princess as an ambassador for the UN global sustainability has chosen to focus in particular</div>
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The Crown Princess began her visit in Tokyo with a lunch with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan.<br />
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Afterwards, the Crown Princes visited the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo where a meeting was held about Japan's efforts on sustainability issues.<br />
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The day ended with a reception at the Swedish Embassy for Japanese fishing companies and fishing experts. The meeting was a follow up of the Soneva Dialogue, held in the Maldives in November 2016, where multinational companies in the fishing and aquaculture took part along with leading scientists from both Europe and North America and Asia.<br />
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During the reception, the Crown Princess held a speech and said:<br />
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<i>Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen,<br />I am honoured to be here tonight.<br />Some of you I have met before. Some of you are new acquaintances, who I am looking forward to getting to know.<br />I brought with me, here tonight, this small plant of pine. It can be seen as a symbol of my country.<br />This little plant will need to grow for about 80 to 90 years before it is ready to fell.<br />So planting it is not something you do for yourself, but for your children and grandchildren. It is an investment for future generations.<br />Now, you may wonder, why am I talking to you about forests?<br />It is because I believe that there is a common ground between Swedish forestry and Japanese fishery.<br />They are both national industries that have been around for many, many generations. They are foundations of national prosperity, closely linked to our respective histories and cultures. And thanks to ground-breaking innovation and research, they are globally competitive.<br />This little plant is small enough to fit in the palm of my hand, but it holds opportunities greater than we can imagine today.<br />The forest is a renewable resource with remarkable capacity. But like with all renewable resources, we need to manage it in a wise and sustainable way. Otherwise, we will no longer be able to make a living from it.<br />Fish is the largest source of animal protein in the world. Half of it comes from aquaculture, the other half is ocean harvested. There is a strong worldwide demand for good and affordable fish and seafood.<br />But to a growing extent, consumers are asking for more:<br />They want to know that their food is healthy, that it does not contain harmful substances, and that it has been produced in a way that does not threaten endangered species.<br />So there are strong reasons to act now to meet future global consumer demand. And, ultimately, to secure the conditions for a thriving seafood industry.<br />Sustainability is not a corporate buzz word. Sustainability is competitive.<br />In November, leaders of the global seafood industry held a dialogue meeting – the Soneva Dialogue – to discuss risks and opportunities connected to the state of our oceans. Some of you were there. And so was I.<br />The Dialogue resulted in a joint statement. The keystone actors have identified a number of areas that they will address together in order to contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<br />This is a major step forward! Moving from words to action.<br />Like this plant, the unique partnership founded in November has all the potential to develop into something strong and solid; something to build on for the future. But this will demand your effort, your commitment and your hard work.<br />For decades and centuries, your companies have been pioneers of the sea. I urge you now to grasp the opportunity to maintain that leadership.<br />I welcome you to the next dialogue meeting in Stockholm in May. I hope to see many of you there.<br />Thank you.</i></blockquote>
Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-6003390334671814742017-04-13T13:03:00.001-07:002017-04-13T13:07:40.999-07:00Crown Princess Victoria's 40th birthday celebrations.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">On 14 July 2017 HRH Crown Princess Victoria celebrates her 40th birthday. The celebrations will take place in Stockholm on Friday 14 July and on Öland on Saturday 15 July.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Crown Princess' birthday celebrations start at 10 a.m. with a thanksgiving service, Te Deum, in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Palace. Invited guests are the immediate family, representatives of the Riksdag, the Government and official Sweden, as well as the staff of the Royal Court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the thankgsgiving service a reception will be held in the Palace garden, Logården, for the guests present at Te Deum.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At 12 noon the Armed Forces will fire gun salutes from Skeppsholmen, as well as from the salute batteries in Boden, Härnösand, Karlskrona, and Gothenburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At 1 p.m. the celebrations in Stockholm end with the Crown Princess Family being escorted from the Royal Palace to the Royal Stables in a horse drawn carriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Crown Princess' birthday celebrations will continue at Borgholms IP in the presence of the Royal Family. The festivities at Borgholms IP begin at 7 p.m. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At around 11 a.m., the day after the birthday, the celebrations will end with The King and Queen and The Crown Princess Couple meeting the people gathered in front of Solliden Palace. The gates to Solliden Palace Park open at 8.30 a.m.</span></div>
Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-58519806682218555132017-04-10T07:36:00.000-07:002017-04-10T07:36:31.280-07:00Service in memory of the victims of the Stockholm attack.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Monday morning, the King and Queen, The Crown Princess Couple and Prince Couple attended Stockholm's official ceremony at the City Hall in honor of the victims of the attack of the 7th April.<br />
The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the official Sweden.<br />
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At 12.00, a national minute of silence was held for those affected by the attack. The Army Band played Segnale Solenne and the two flags fluttered at half-mast was hoisted on top.<br />
During the ceremony, Finance Commissioner Karin Wanngård, Finance County Commissioner Irene Svenonius and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke and praised Stockholm's residents and authorities that set up help and support in many ways and showed great humanity.<br />
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<br />Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-30041866673938431162016-07-26T08:15:00.002-07:002016-07-26T08:23:55.077-07:00Interview: Queen Silvia talks about being a grandmother with BUNTE.<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Sie ist eine Königin zum Anfassen: Geduldig schüttelt Silvia von Schweden (72) beim Geburtstagsempfang ihrer Tochter auf Schloss Solliden die Hände der Besucher, posiert für Selfies mit Kindern und singt mit der Menge ein Geburtstagsständchen für Victoria (38)."><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Sie ist eine Königin zum Anfassen: Geduldig schüttelt Silvia von Schweden (72) beim Geburtstagsempfang ihrer Tochter auf Schloss Solliden die Hände der Besucher, posiert für Selfies mit Kindern und singt mit der Menge ein Geburtstagsständchen für Victoria (38).">She
is a Queen of touch: Silvia of Sweden (72) at the
birthday reception of their daughter on Solliden Palace patiently shakes hands of
visitors, poses for selfies with children and sings a birthday song for
Victoria (38) with the amount. </span><span title="Schon zwei Tage zuvor hatte sie sich bei der Eröffnungsfeier des großen Reitturniers CHIO in Aachen ähnlich volksnah gezeigt.">Two days before she had shown a similar attitude at the opening ceremony of the great horse show CHIO in Aachen. </span><span title="Mit ihrem Mann Carl Gustaf (70) besuchte sie das „schwedische Dorf“ auf der Turnieranlage, sprach mit schwedischen Unternehmern und aktiven Sportlern im Pferdestall.
">With her husband Carl Gustaf (70) she visited the "Swedish Village" on the
tournament course, talked to Swedish entrepreneurs and active athletes
in the stable.</span><span title="Auch beim BUNTE-Interview wirkt die Königin nahbar und überaus freundlich.">Even during the interview with BUNTE, the Queen acts approachable and very friendly. </span><span title="Als die Reporterin ihr sagt, dass sie wie die Königin ebenfalls aus dem Raum Heidelberg komme, freut sie sich und verfällt sofort in den typischen kurpfälzischen Singsang: „Hajo!">When
the reporter tells her that she came from the Heidelberg area as the Queen also, they immediately fell into the typical Palatine
singsong: "Hajo! </span><span title="Schau an!">Look! </span><span title="Isch des nätt!">Isch of nätt! </span><span title="“
">"<br /><b><br /></b></span><b><span title="Majestät, Sie sind in Deutschland geboren, aber in Aachen als Repräsentantin Schwedens.">Majesty, you were born in Germany, but are in Aachen as a representative of Sweden. </span></b><span title="Wo fühlen Sie sich zu Hause?
"><b>Where do you feel at home?</b></span><span title="Das ist eine interessante Frage, die ich gern mit folgendem Vergleich beantworten würde: Ich glaube, wenn man das erste Kind bekommt, dann liebt man das sehr."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Das ist eine interessante Frage, die ich gern mit folgendem Vergleich beantworten würde: Ich glaube, wenn man das erste Kind bekommt, dann liebt man das sehr.">That's
an interesting question that I would like to answer with the following
comparison: I think that if you get the first child, then you love it
very much. </span><span title="Und dann kriegt man plötzlich das zweite Kind und man fragt sich: Kann man das zweite genauso lieben wie das erste?">And then you suddenly get the second child and one wonders: Is it possible to love the second just like the first? </span><span title="Und plötzlich hat man ein drittes Kind.">And suddenly you have a third child. </span><span title="Aber kann man sein Herz in drei gleiche Teile aufteilen?">But can you split your heart in three equal parts? </span><span title="Ich glaube: Ja!">I think so! </span><span title="Und so ist es auch mit meinem Heimatgefühl.">And so it is with my own feelings. </span><span title="Ich bin in Brasilien aufgewachsen, in Deutschland habe ich meine Jugendzeit verbracht und dann bin ich nach Schweden gekommen.">I grew up in Brazil, in Germany I spent my teenage years and then I came to Sweden. </span><span title="Ich liebe Deutschland, meine Wurzeln, das Land meines Vaters.">I love Germany, my roots, my father's country. </span><span title="Natürlich!">Naturally! </span><span title="Aber ich liebe auch Brasilien, weil meine Mutter Brasilianerin war und ich dort zur Schule ging.">But I also love Brazil because my mother was Brazilian and I went to school there. </span><span title="Jetzt lebe ich in Schweden, habe drei Kinder und fünf Enkelkinder – schwedische Kinder.">Now I live in Sweden, have three children and five grandchildren - Swedish children. </span><span title="Und mein Mann ist Schwede.">And my husband is Swedish. </span><span title="Ist doch verständlich, dass ich auch Schweden liebe!
">It is understandable that I also love Sweden!</span><b><span title="Viele Deutsche verehren das schwedische Königshaus."> </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Viele Deutsche verehren das schwedische Königshaus.">Many Germans are fascinated with the Swedish Royal Family. </span></b><span title="Wie erklären Sie sich unsere Faszination an Ihrer Familie?
"><b>How do you explain our fascination with your family?</b></span><span title="Hm. Das fragen Sie besser die Deutschen."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hm. Das fragen Sie besser die Deutschen.">Hm. You better ask the Germans. </span><span title="Für mich ist das schwer zu erklären.">For me, it's hard to explain. </span><span title="Aber die Bindung zwischen Deutschland und Schweden war schon immer sehr groß, vor allem auch die familiäre: Denken Sie an Sibylla von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, die Mutter meines Mannes.">But
the bond between Germany and Sweden has always been very large,
especially the familiar one: think of Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, my husband's mother. </span><span title="Oder an Königin Victoria von England.
">Or Queen Victoria of England.</span><b><span title="Sprechen Sie denn auch deutsch zu Hause?"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Sprechen Sie denn auch deutsch zu Hause?">Do you speak German well at home? </span></b><span title="Lernen Ihre Enkel Deutsch?
"><b>Have your grandchildren learned German?</b></span><span title="Noch sind sie zu klein."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Noch sind sie zu klein.">They're too small yet. </span><span title="Aber die Kronprinzessin spricht ja sehr gut Deutsch.">But the Crown Princess speaks very good German. </span><span title="Madeleine und Carl Philip sind schüchtern, aber natürlich verstehen sie die Sprache.">Madeleine and Carl Philip are shy, but of course they understand the language. </span><span title="Und die Enkel?">And the grandchildren? </span><span title="Jede Sprache, die sie lernen, ist eine Tür zur Welt.">Each language they learn, is a door to the world. </span><span title="Es ist auch viel praktischer, wenn man mehrere Sprachen kann.
">It is also much more convenient when you can speak several languages.</span><span title="Wie nennen Ihre Enkel Sie denn?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Wie nennen Ihre Enkel Sie denn?
"><b>What do your grandchildren call you then?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Wie nennen Ihre Enkel Sie denn?
"><b> </b></span><span title="Modermoder.">Moder Moder. </span><span title="Moder bedeutet Mutter.">Moder means mother. </span><span title="Großmutter dementsprechend Modermoder.">Moder Moder means grandmother. </span><span title="Oder Farmor.">Or Farmor. </span><span title="Das sagt man, wenn man die Großmutter väterlicherseits ist.">That's said, if one is the paternal grandmother. </span><span title="Auf Schwedisch weiß man immer ganz genau, von welcher Großmutter man spricht.
">In Swedish, one always knows exactly when you're called grandmother.</span><b><span title="2016 war wieder ein ereignisreiches Jahr für Ihr Königshaus: Sie sind noch zweimal Großmutter geworden, haben 40. Hochzeitstag gefeiert, jetzt der Victoriatag und im Herbst ist noch die Taufe von Enkel Alexander."> </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="2016 war wieder ein ereignisreiches Jahr für Ihr Königshaus: Sie sind noch zweimal Großmutter geworden, haben 40. Hochzeitstag gefeiert, jetzt der Victoriatag und im Herbst ist noch die Taufe von Enkel Alexander.">2016
was another eventful year for your Royal Family: You have become twice
a grandmother, celebrated your 40th wedding anniversary, Victoriadagen now and in autum the christening of your grandson Alexander. </span><span title="Alles erscheint immer wie aus dem Märchenbuch.">Everything seems more like a fairy tale. </span></b><span title="Trügt der Schein?
"><b>Appearances are deceptive?</b></span><span title="Es ist beides: märchenhaft, aber auch viel Arbeit."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Es ist beides: märchenhaft, aber auch viel Arbeit.">It is both a fairy tale, but also a lot of work. </span><span title="Wir haben ein intensives Programm.">We have an intensive program. </span><span title="Das fängt nicht um 9 Uhr morgens an und schließt um 17 Uhr, sondern es ist dauernd was los.">The events doesn't begin at 9am and finish at 17 o'clock, but it is constantly something going on. </span><span title="Es ist interessant, wirklich, dafür bin ich meinem Mann auch sehr dankbar, weil es unwahrscheinliche Möglichkeiten gibt.">It's interesting, really, for that I am my husband also very grateful because it is unlikely possibilities. </span><span title="Viele Reisen zum Beispiel.">Many trips, for example. </span><span title="Aber es ist eben auch viel Arbeit, sich darauf vorzubereiten.">But it is also a lot of work to prepare for it. </span><span title="Im Oktober sind wir zum zweiten Mal auf Staatsbesuch in Deutschland, was uns besonders freut!">In October we are especially pleased with the state visit to Germany for the second time for us! </span><span title="Beim ersten Mal waren wir noch in Bonn, nun ist Berlin die Hauptstadt und Deutschland sieht ganz anders aus.">The first time we were in Bonn, now Berlin is the capital and Germany is very different. </span><span title="Wobei wir das Land eigentlich jedes Jahr mal privat besuchen.">We actually visit the country privately sometimes. </span><span title="Immer wenn wir nach Südfrankreich reisen, fahren wir durch Deutschland und machen Halt in verschiedenen Städten.">Whenever we travel to the south of France, we drive through Germany, stopping in different cities. </span><span title="Jedes Mal nehmen wir eine andere Strecke.">Every time we take a different route. </span><span title="Ich kann das nur jedem empfehlen!
">I can only recommend!<br /><b><br /></b></span><b><span title="Das sind ja irrsinnig lange Autofahrten.">Those are insanely long car rides. </span></b><span title="Strengt das nicht an?
"><b>Straining not do this to?</b></span><span title="Ach, mein Mann ist ein ausgezeichneter Autofahrer.
"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ach, mein Mann ist ein ausgezeichneter Autofahrer.
">Oh, my husband is an excellent driver.</span><span title="Ich habe gehört, er wollte sich unbedingt noch den Mercedes-Stand hier auf dem Turniergelände ansehen ...
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ich habe gehört, er wollte sich unbedingt noch den Mercedes-Stand hier auf dem Turniergelände ansehen ...
"><b>I heard he wanted to still view necessarily the Mercedes stand here on the show grounds...</b></span><span title="Gut möglich."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Gut möglich.">Quite possible. </span><span title="Er liebt Autos.">He loves cars. </span><span title="Die haben ein paar Pferdestärken mehr.
">They have a few more horsepower.</span><b><span title="Ihre Enkeltochter Leonore scheint vernarrt in Pferde."> </span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Ihre Enkeltochter Leonore scheint vernarrt in Pferde.">Your granddaughter Leonore seems fond of horses. </span></b><span title="Kürzlich konnte man auf Fotos sehen, wie sie ihr Pony Haidi besucht.
"><b>Recently you could see on photos, as she visited her pony Haidi.</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kürzlich konnte man auf Fotos sehen, wie sie ihr Pony Haidi besucht.
"><b> </b></span><span title="Oh ja!">Oh yeah! </span><span title="Das liebt sie!">She loves them! </span><span title="Das schniegelt sie und striegelt sie, füttert und putzt es.">She grooms them, feeds and dresses them. </span><span title="Immer, wenn sie kann, besucht sie ihr Pony.">Whenever she can, she visits her pony. </span><span title="Wenn es nach ihr gehen würde, wäre sie am liebsten jeden Tag da.
">If it were up to her she would have liked to do so everyday.</span><b><span title="Ihr Credo lautet: Enkel sind das Dessert des Lebens."> </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Ihr Credo lautet: Enkel sind das Dessert des Lebens.">Your credo is: grandchildren are the dessert of life. </span></b><span title="Sind Sie eine Verwöhn-Omi?
"><b>Are you a pampering Omi?</b></span><span title="Na ja, Süßigkeiten gibt es in Schweden für Kinder nur samstags."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Na ja, Süßigkeiten gibt es in Schweden für Kinder nur samstags.">Well, there are sweets in Sweden for children on Saturdays only. </span><span title="Daran halten sich alle.">This is followed by all hold. </span><span title="Zahnärzte propagieren diese Regel natürlich, sagen, die Kinder sollen besser an einem Tag so viel essen, wie sie wollen, und dann gut Zähneputzen, als jeden Tag Süßes zu naschen.">Dentists
propagate this rule, of course, say that children are better on a day
to eat as much as they want, and then good brushing, than to nibble
everyday Sweet. </span><span title="Manchmal fragen mich die Kinder: „Ist heute Samstag?">Sometimes I ask the children: "Is today Saturday? </span><span title="“ Dann sage ich: „Nein.“ Und dann meinen sie: „Nein?">"Then I say," No. "And then they say:". No? </span><span title="Ach, dann warte ich.“ Das ist gar kein Problem.
">Oh, I'll wait. "That's no problem.</span></span><br />
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<li><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><a href="http://mobil.bunte.de/royals/schwedisches-koenigshaus/silvia-von-schweden-die-koenigin-spricht-ueber-heimatliebe-und-ihre-enkel-343911.html?utm_referrer=redirect" target="_blank"><span title="Ach, dann warte ich.“ Das ist gar kein Problem.
">Original in German. </span></a></span></li>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-81117294333683257452016-07-24T17:49:00.000-07:002016-07-26T08:17:52.250-07:00Chris O'Neill talks family life and work with Expressen.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="SOLLIDENS SLOTT.">Solliden Palace. </span><span title="Prinsessan Madeleine och Chris O'Neill njuter av svenska sommaren på Öland.
">Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill are enjoying the Swedish summer on Öland.</span><span title="I en stor sommarintervju berättar nu Chris O'Neill om tennismorgnarna och familjekvällarna hemma på Solliden, hur Nicolas tagit sina första steg häromdagen och hur lillprinsen ser upp till Leonore – och att Chris O'Neill hoppas se familjen växa mer.
"> In a big summer interview, Chris O'Neill tells us now about tennis mornings and
family home evenings at Solliden, how Nicolas took his first steps the
other day and how the little Prince looks up to Leonore - and Chris
O'Neill hopes to see the family grow more.</span><i><span title="– Vi vill ha fler barn."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Vi vill ha fler barn.">We want to have more children. </span><span title="Både jag och Madeleine vill ha en stor familj.">Both Madeleine and I want a big family. </span><span title="En eller två till.
">One or two more.</span></i><span title="Så blir Estelles sommar på Öland - 18 jul
"></span><span title="Det är tidig förmiddag inne vid Sollidens slott."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det är tidig förmiddag inne vid Sollidens slott.">It is an early morning at Solliden Palace. </span><span title="Om en liten stund ska slottet öppna upp för allmänheten och kungafamiljen tar sig ner till det privata båthuset nere vid Kalmarsund för att njuta av det strålande vädret.
">In a moment, the Palace shall be open to the public and the Royal Family get
down to the private boathouse down by Kalmar to enjoy the glorious
weather.</span><span title="En av familjemedlemmarna, Chris O'Neill, har valt att ta en liten paus den här förmiddagen.
"> One of the family members, Chris O'Neill, has chosen to take a little break this morning.</span><span title="Senast för nästan exakt ett år sedan berättade han för mig om varför han och Madeleine den hösten skulle lämna Sverige och flytta till London.">I'ts almost exactly a year ago that he told me why he and Madeleine would leave Sweden in the fall and move to London. </span><span title="Nu har de i snart 12 månader bott i London och Chris summerar intrycken:
">Now they have been living in London for almost 12 months and Chris summarizes the impressions:<br /><i><br /></i></span><i><span title="– För mig var det som att komma hem igen, så klart.">For me it was like coming home again, of course. </span></i><span title="För Madeleine var det något helt nytt att flytta från New York till London, men det har fungerat fantastiskt bra.
"><i>For Madeleine it was something completely new to move from New York to London, but it has worked wonderfully well.</i></span><i><span title="– Vi flyttade för att komma närmare Sverige och jag ändå skulle kunna sköta mitt arbete."> We moved to be closer to Sweden and I would still be able to do my work. </span><span title="Nu är det så mycket enklare och närmare att kunna ta sig fram och tillbaka till Stockholm för Madeleine.">Now it is so much easier being able to get back and forth to Stockholm for Madeleine. </span></i><span title="Det blir en helt annan frihet.
"><i>It's a completely different freedom.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det blir en helt annan frihet.
"><br /></span><span title="Vi träffas uppe vid kungens Kaffetorp inne på Solliden.">We meet up at the King's Coffee Torp inside at Solliden. </span><span title="Chris väljer ett bord lite avsides.">Chris chose a table a little aloof. </span><span title="Det är fortfarande tidigt och få lägger märke till honom.
">It's still early and no one gets to notice him.</span><i><span title="– Jag älskar Öland och Sollidens slott.">I love Öland and Solliden Palace. </span></i><span title="Det är ett fantastiskt ställe och en underbar plats att få vara på sommaren, menar han.
"><i>It is a fantastic place and a wonderful place to be in the summer</i>, he says.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det är ett fantastiskt ställe och en underbar plats att få vara på sommaren, menar han.
"><br /></span><span title="Hur har första året i London varit?
"><b>How has the first year in London been?</b></span><i><span title="– Mycket har ju handlat om att komma in i allt och framför allt ta hand om Nicolas och Leonore."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Mycket har ju handlat om att komma in i allt och framför allt ta hand om Nicolas och Leonore.">We're about to get into everything, and above all, Nicolas and Leonore. </span><span title="De är ju vad man brukar kalla för pseudotvillingar i och med att de är så nära varandra i ålder.
">They're what is called pseudo twins because they are so close in age.</span><span title="– Det har varit ett intensivt år.">It has been a busy year. </span><span title="Både jag och Madeleine har arbetat mycket.">Both Madeleine and I have worked great. </span><span title="Vid sidan om mitt jobb och Madeleines kungliga uppdrag och engagemang i Childhood kretsar mycket kring familjelivet och barnen.">Besides my job and Madeleine's royal mission and commitment to Childhood, we focus heavily on family life and children. </span><span title="Vi har exempelvis förberett barnens skolgångar.">For example, we prepared the children's schools. </span><span title="Leonore börjar förskolan i höst.">Leonore starting kindergarten in the fall. </span></i><span title="Det känns bra.
"><i>It feels good.</i><br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Hur länge ska ni bo i London?
"><b>How long will you stay in London?</b></span><i><span title="– Vi har inte satt någon tidsgräns.">We have not set any time limit. </span><span title="Däremot blir det minst två till tre år framåt.">However, it will be at least two to three years. </span></i><span title="Sedan får vi se vad som händer.
"><i>Then we'll see what happens.</i><br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Är det okej för Madeleine?
"><b>Is it okay for Madeleine?</b><i> </i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Ja, absolut.">Yes absolutely. </span></i><span title="Vi trivs båda väldigt bra i England.
"><i>We feel both very good in England.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hjälper andra företag
"><br /></span><span title="Chris O'Neill har tidigare berättat om sitt arbete - hur han hjälper andra företag med olika betalningslösningar genom sitt bolag Wilton Payments.">Chris
O'Neill has previously reported on his work - how he helps other
companies with different payment solutions through his company Wilton
Payments. </span><span title="Hjälpa stora företag att säkra nya affärer till lägre kostnader, långtidskontrakt och elektroniska betallösningar.
">Helping large companies to secure new business at lower costs, long-term contracts and electronic payment solutions.</span><i><span title="– Jag arbetar på med det.">I'm working on it. </span><span title="Det tar längre tid än du tror att utveckla sådana betalningslösningar med stora företag.">It takes longer than you think to develop such payment solutions to large enterprises. </span><span title="Du kan komma med en bra idé och ändå tre år senare sitta kvar i samma process.
">You can come up with a good idea and yet three years later remain in the same process.</span><span title="– Framför allt om du arbetar med stora företag."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Framför allt om du arbetar med stora företag.">Especially if you work with large companies. </span><span title="Det är lite som en oljetanker.">It's a bit like an oil tanker. </span><span title="Men när du väl har styrt om den och har rak kurs och gör ett bra jobb blir det företaget dig lojal.">But once you've driven it and have a straight course and do a good job, it will be the company that will be loyal to you. </span></i><span title="Det gäller att hela tiden vara närvarande och det kräver mycket av mig.
"><i>You have to constantly be present, and it requires a lot of me.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det gäller att hela tiden vara närvarande och det kräver mycket av mig.
"><i> </i></span><span title="Hur mycket arbetar du?
"><b>How much do you work?</b><br /><br /><i>A lot.</i></span><i><span title="– Mycket."> </span><span title="Jag reser framför allt mycket, men är ungefär 75 procent i London.">I travel a lot, but above all, about 75 per cent in London. </span><span title="Resorna jag gör till exempelvis Zürich eller Milano är över dagen, så att jag på det sättet slipper spendera en natt på hotell.
">The trips I make, for example, Zurich or Milan is the day, so that I don't have to spend a night in a hotel.</span></i><span title="– Hemma i London har jag ett kontor som jag delar med några andra företag och på kvällarna kan jag vara hemma med Madeleine och barnen.
"><i> Back in London, I have an office that I share with a few other
enterprises, and in the evenings I can be home with Madeleine and
the children.</i><br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Hur ser veckorna ut i London?
"><b>How is the weekend in London?</b><br /><i><br /></i></span><i><span title="– London är så mycket mer barnvänligt än New York.">London is so much more child-friendly than New York. </span><span title="Det brukar på helgerna bli mycket parker som Richmond Park och Hyde Park.">Usually on the weekends you can go to lots of parks like Richmond Park and Hyde Park. </span><span title="Även museer och en rad olika akvarier.">Even museums and a variety of aquariums. </span><span title="Både London och Stockholm är mer barnvänligt byggda än New York.
">Both London and Stockholm are built more child-friendly than New York. On the e</span><span title="– Kvällarna prioriterar vi hemma med barnen.">venings we prioritize being at home with the children. </span></i><span title="Både jag och Madeleine är väldigt mycket för just familjemiddagar och bara vara hemma.
"><i>Both Madeleine and I are very much about family dinners and just being at home.</i></span><span title="Chris börjar med stolthet i rösten prata om barnen prinsessan Leonore och prins Nicolas:
">Chris begins to proudly talk about the kids Princess Leonore and Prince Nicolas:<br /><br /><i> </i></span><i><span title="– Både Madeleine och jag är rörande överens om att livet inte kan vara mycket bättre än vad det är i dag med de här två små liven.">Both Madeleine and I agree that life can not be much better than what it is today with these two little creatures. </span></i><span title="Det är två helt olika karaktärer där man nu märker att Nicolas tittar på varenda sak som Leonore gör och beundrar henne.
"><i>There are two completely different characters and you can see now that
Nicolas is watching every single thing that Leonore makes and admires her.</i><br /><i><br /></i></span><span title="– Nicolas tog sina första steg häromdagen!"><i>Nicolas took his first steps the other day!</i> </span><span title="säger Chris och skiner upp.">says Chris and shining up. </span><i><span title="Det är väl inte de mest säkra, men sina första steg.">They weren't the most secure, but they're his first steps. </span><span title="Leonore gick när hon var 12 månader.">Leonore went when she was 12 months. </span></i><span title="Men jag läste någonstans att tjejer går oftast tidigare än killar.
"><i>But I read somewhere that girls usually go earlier than boys.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Skillnader
"></span><span title="Vad är skillnaden mellan Leonore och Nicolas?
"><b>What is the difference between Leonore and Nicolas?</b><br /><br /><i>They're</i></span><i><span title="– Det är ju två helt skilda individer."> completely different individuals. </span><span title="Nicolas är en soft liten kille.">Nicolas is a soft little guy. </span><span title="Leonore är dominerande och en bestämd liten tjej.
">Leonore is dominant and a certain small girl.</span></i><span title="– Jo, förresten, säger Chris."><i> And by the way,</i> says Chris. </span><i><span title="Jag tror att Nicolas har ärvt en sak av sin morbror Carl Philip och morfar kungen.">I think Nicolas has inherited something of his uncle Carl Philip and grandfather the King. </span><span title="Han älskar allt som har en motor.">He loves everything that has a motor. </span><span title="Fullständigt besatt med allt som har motor.">He's completely obsessed with everything related to the engines. </span></i><span title="Så där vet vi hur det kommer bli i framtiden, säger han och skrattar.
"><i>So we do know how it will be in the future,</i> he says, laughing.<br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Vill ni ha fler barn?
"><b>Do you want more children?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Ja, absolut.">Yes absolutely. </span><span title="Sedan är ju inte det någon självklarhet.">Since it's not a foregone conclusion. </span><span title="Jag och Madeleine älskar att ha en stor familj.
">Madeleine and I love having a big family. </span><span title="– Men vi vill vänta med barn just nu.">But we want to wait with the kids right now. </span><span title="Jag känner att vi måste fokusera på Nicolas och Leonore.">I feel that we must focus on Nicolas and Leonore. </span><span title="Se till att de får vår tid och att vi ser dem till 100 procent.">Make sure they get our time and that we see them 100 percent. </span></i><span title="Men i framtiden, absolut!
"><i>But in the future, absolutely!</i></span><b><span title="Hur många till?"> </span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Hur många till?">How many more? </span><span title="Ett barn?">A child? </span></b><span title="Två barn?
"><b>Two children?</b></span><span title="Chris skrattar:
"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Chris skrattar:
">Chris laughs: </span><span title="– En eller två, exakt, säger han och skrattar igen.
"><i>One or two, accurate</i>, he says and laughs again.</span><span title="I vintras var Chris och Madeleine med i ”Skavlan” i SVT och berättade för första gången om sin relation i tv.">Last winter was Chris and Madeleine were in "Skavlan 'on SVT and told for the first time about their relationship on TV. </span><span title="Chris är glad att han gjorde det:
">Chris is happy he did it:<i> </i></span><i><span title="– Jag har fått väldigt många positiva reaktioner.">I have received many positive reactions. </span></i><span title="Det känns bra.
"><i>It feels good.</i></span><span title="Många har sagt till mig att de hade en "helt annan bild av dig" innan ”Skavlan”."> <i>Many have told me that they had a "very different picture of you" before "Skavlan".</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span title="Många har sagt till mig att de hade en "helt annan bild av dig" innan ”Skavlan”."> </span><span title="Känner du igen det?">Do you Recognise it? </span></b><span title="Att folk som inte känner dig har en förutfattad mening?
"><b>That people who do not know you have a preconceived idea about you?</b></span><i><span title="– Ja, absolut."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Ja, absolut.">Yes absolutely. </span><span title="Vi har ju alla bilder och uppfattningar om människor som vi kanske inte känner.">We all have images and perceptions of people we may not know. </span><span title="Mina vänner vet vem jag är och vad jag är för slags person.">My friends know who I am and what kind of person I am. </span></i><span title="Sedan är jag övertygad om att det finns personer som ändrar uppfattning efter att kanske sett ett program som ”Skavlan”.
"><i>Since I am convinced that there are people who change their minds after perhaps seen a program like "Skavlan". </i></span><span title="– Det är alltid lätt döma någon, men jag tror på att ge alla en chans och lära känna dem som individer.
"><i>It's always easy to judge anyone, but I believe in giving everyone a chance and get to know them as individuals.</i></span><span title="Tycker du det är jobbigt att vara offentlig?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Tycker du det är jobbigt att vara offentlig?
"><b>Do you find it hard to be public?</b></span><i><span title="– Det är vad det är."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Det är vad det är.">It is what it is. </span><span title="Jag börjar bli mer och mer van.">I'm getting more and more used to it. </span><span title="Som att göra en tv-show som ”Skavlan” med så många tittare var ju naturligtvis nervöst.">Like making a TV show like "Skavlan" with so many viewers I was of course nervous. </span><span title="Det var inte det lättaste.
">It was not the easiest.</span><span title="– Att vara en offentlig person har alla sina aspekter."> Being a public person has all its aspects. </span><span title="Alla paparazzis om man är på semester är en sådan sak.">All the paparazzi if you are on vacation is such a thing. </span><span title="Det kan bli irriterande efter ett tag.">It can get annoying after a while. </span></i><span title="Men det är ett litet pris som du betalar.
"><i>But that's a small price you pay.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hur då?
"><b>How?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hur då?
"><b> </b></span><i><span title="– Jag tänker inte så mycket på det längre.">I do not think much about it anymore. </span><span title="Jag har min fantastiska familj och barnen och måste säga att jag tycker att vi har fått ha ett bra och skyddat privatliv det senaste året.
">I have my amazing family and kids and have to say I think we've got to have a good and protected the privacy of the past year.</span><span title="– Madeleine och jag är måna om att ge barnen så pass normal uppväxt som möjligt."> Madeleine and I are committed to giving children a childhood as normal as possible. </span><span title="Att de skyddas och kan få ha sitt liv.">That they are protected and can have their life. </span><span title="Sedan är ju både jag och Madeleine medvetna om att det aldrig blir 100 procent normalt, som för andra barn som inte är offentliga.
">Since're both Madeleine and I are aware that there will never be 100 percent normal, as for other children who are not public.</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="Sedan är ju både jag och Madeleine medvetna om att det aldrig blir 100 procent normalt, som för andra barn som inte är offentliga.
"></span></i><span title="Säljer huset
"></span><b><span title="Ni har lämnat USA och sedan en tid tillbaka ligger ert sommarhus i Florida ute till försäljning.">You have left the United States and your summer house in Florida is on sale. </span></b><span title="Varför?
"><b>Why?</b></span><i><span title="– Det är enkelt."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Det är enkelt.">It is easy. </span><span title="Vi använder det inte längre.">We do not use it anymore. </span><span title="Att ha ett hus i Florida betyder stora omkostnader och hela tiden ett ständigt underhåll av allt från trädgård till pool och även när vi inte är där måste vi ha på luftkonditioneringen.">To
have a house in Florida means a constant
maintenance of everything from garden to pool and even when we are not
there we need to have the air conditioner. </span><span title="Sådant kostar mycket i längden.
">Things like those cost a lot on the long run.</span><span title="– Sedan är det Florida med alla försäkringar.">Then there is Florida and all the insurances. </span><span title="Allt från försäkring mot översvämning till orkan.">Everything from insurance against flooding, to hurricanes. </span><span title="Även det drar i väg kostnadsmässigt.">While it pulls in the way of costs. </span><span title="Nu behöver vi inte huset längre och därför beslutat oss för att sälja.">Now we do not use the house any longer, and therefore decided to sell it. </span></i><span title="Inget går snabbt i Florida så det kommer nog ta sin tid att sälja.
"><i>Nothing goes fast in Florida so it will probably take its time to be sold.</i></span><span title="Chris och Madeleine är sedan en tid tillbaka på Öland för att njuta av den svenska sommaren.">Chris and Madeleine are in Öland to enjoy the Swedish summer. </span><span title="Chris sköter sin verksamhet från slottet:
">Chris manages his operations from the castle:</span><i><span title="– Kungen har haft den vänligheten att låna ut ett kontor till mig och därifrån kan jag styra min verksamhet.">The King had the kindness to lend an office to me and from there I can control my business. </span><span title="I resten av Europa och USA är det inte nu semester.">In the rest of Europe and the United States now in the holidays. </span><span title="Där håller alla på att slutföra allt för att gå på semester.">We're are all about to complete everything to go on vacation. </span><span title="Så det gäller för att kämpa på ännu hårdare.
">So you have to fight on even harder.</span><span title="– Jag åker i helgen fram och tillbaka till London och kommer så göra de kommande veckorna."> I go this weekend back and forth to London and will do so in the coming weeks. </span></i><span title="Madeleine stannar däremot på Öland med barnen i minst ett par veckor till.
"><i>Madeleine, however, will stay in Öland with the children for at least a couple more weeks.</i></span><span title="Vad gör ni dagarna på Öland?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vad gör ni dagarna på Öland?
"><b>What do you do everyday in Öland?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vad gör ni dagarna på Öland?
"><b> </b></span><span title="– Jag börjar varje morgon med att spela tennis.
"><i>I begin each morning with a game of tennis.</i></span><span title="Vem spelar du mot?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vem spelar du mot?
"><b>Who do you play against?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vem spelar du mot?
"><b> </b></span><i><span title="– Det kan vara Madeleine eller Carl Philip.">It could be Madeleine or Carl Philip. </span><span title="Jag har också en professionell tennistränare från Borgholm som kommer och kör olika pass med mig.">I also have a professional tennis coach from Borgholm coming and run different sports with me. </span><span title="Sedan brukar vi gå ner till båthuset med barnen och bara bada.">Since we usually go down to the boathouse with the kids and just swim. </span><span title="Jag älskar att bada med barnen.
">I love to swim with the kids.</span><span title="– Det finns så otroligt mycket att göra inne på Solliden."> There is so much to do inside at Solliden. </span><span title="Är det inte alla fantastiska jordgubbs- eller hallonodlingar så är det hästarna för Leonore.">If it's not the fantastic strawberry or raspberry plantations, it's horses for Leonore. </span></i><span title="Sedan umgås vi mycket med övriga familjen och morfar kungen och mormor Silvia.
"><i>Then we hang out a lot with the family and grandfather King and grandmother Silvia.</i><b><br /></b></span><span title="Äter ni frukost ihop med resten av kungafamiljen?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Äter ni frukost ihop med resten av kungafamiljen?
"><b>Do you eat breakfast with the rest of the Royal Family?</b></span><i><span title="– Ja, absolut."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Ja, absolut.">Yes absolutely. </span></i><span title="Vi brukar försöka samlas på morgonen för just frukost.
"><i>We usually try to gather in the morning at breakfast.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vi brukar försöka samlas på morgonen för just frukost.
"><i> </i></span><span title="Hur ser kvällarna ut?
"><b>How do evenings go out?</b></span><i><span title="– Oftast lagar vi mat först till barnen och sedan lägger dem."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Oftast lagar vi mat först till barnen och sedan lägger dem.">Usually we cook food first to the children and then add them. </span><span title="Efter det brukar det bli middag med resten av familjen.">After that we usually get dinner with the rest of the family. </span><span title="Ibland nere vid stranden när vädret är bra.
">Sometimes down at the beach when the weather is good.</span></i><span title="– Sedan kan jag och Madeleine ha kvällar när vi bara tar en pizza och kollar en film.
"><i> Then Madeleine and I can have nights when we just take a pizza and watch a movie.</i><b><br /></b></span><span title="Vilka filmer då?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vilka filmer då?
"><b>Which movies then?</b></span><i><span title="– Jag älskar gamla klassiska filmer, exempelvis "Ubåten" och "Jakten på röd oktober.""> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Jag älskar gamla klassiska filmer, exempelvis "Ubåten" och "Jakten på röd oktober."">I love old classic movies such as "submarine" and "The Hunt for Red October." </span></i><span title="Komedier är också något som jag gillar.
"><i>Comedy is also something that I like.</i></span><span title="Vad gillar Madeleine?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vad gillar Madeleine?
"><b>What about Madeleine?</b></span><i><span title="– Hon tycker om action och nya filmer."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Hon tycker om action och nya filmer.">She likes action and new movies. </span><span title="Sedan gillar vi båda serier.">Since we both like series. </span></i><span title=""The good wife" och "Suits" är två som vi tittar på.
"><i>"The Good Wife" and "Suits" are two that we are watching.</i><br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Har ni sett "Making a murderer" på Netflix?
"><b>Have you seen "Making a murderer" on Netflix?</b></span><i><span title="– Nej, helt missat den."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Nej, helt missat den.">No, I have completely missed it. </span><span title="Den är bra, alltså?">It is good, then? </span></i><span title="Tack för tipset!
"><i>Thanks for the tip!</i></span><span title="Hur är din relation till kungen och drottningen?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hur är din relation till kungen och drottningen?
"><b>How is your relationship with the King and Queen?</b></span><i><span title="– Fantastisk."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Fantastisk.">Amazing. </span><span title="Det är två helt underbara och generösa personer.">They are two wonderful and generous people. </span><span title="Med både sin tid, kärlek och värme.">With both their time, love and warmth. </span><span title="De är dessutom två otroligt bra bollplank.">They are also two incredibly good sounding board. </span><span title="Båda har så mycket kunskap som jag kan fråga om i olika frågeställningar.
">Both have as much knowledge as I can ask about the different issues.</span><span title="– Drottningen är väldigt ödmjuk."> The Queen is very humble. </span><span title="Hon är som hon själv brukar säga en kvinna med brasilianskt hjärta och tysk hjärna.">She is as she usually say a woman with Brazilian Heart and German brain. </span><span title="Otroligt skarp.
">Incredibly sharp.</span><span title="Kungen, då?
"> </span></i></span><br />
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</span></span></i></b><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kungen, då?
"><b>And the King, then?</b></span><i><span title="– Ja, han har ju en livserfarenhet som är enorm."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Ja, han har ju en livserfarenhet som är enorm.">He has a life experience that is huge. </span><span title="Bara få sitta på kvällarna och höra alla hans historier och allt han har varit med om.">Just sit in the evenings and hear all his stories and all he has been through. </span><span title="Det är enormt.">It is huge. </span><span title="Och väldigt underhållande.
">And very entertaining.</span></i><span title="– Jag har också en fantastiskt bra relation med de andra i familjen som Victoria och Daniel och Carl Philip och Sofia.
"><i> I also have a fantastic relationship with the others in the family such as Victoria and Daniel and Carl Philip and Sofia.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="– Jag har också en fantastiskt bra relation med de andra i familjen som Victoria och Daniel och Carl Philip och Sofia.
"><i> </i></span><span title="Kände du dig välkommen från början i kungafamiljen?
"><b>Did you feel welcome from the beginning into the Royal Family?</b></span><i><span title="– Från dag ett!"> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– Från dag ett!">From day one! </span></i><span title="Utan tvekan.
"><i>Undoubtedly.</i></span><span title="Varför tror du?
"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Varför tror du?
"><b>Why do you think so?</b></span><i><span title="– För att alla litar på Madeleine och hennes omdöme."> </span></i></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span title="– För att alla litar på Madeleine och hennes omdöme.">Everyone rely on Madeleine and her opinion. </span></i><span title="De vet vilken oerhört klok kvinna hon är.
"><i>They know the incredibly wise woman she is.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="De vet vilken oerhört klok kvinna hon är.
"><i> </i></span><span title="Vi avslutar intervjun för att ta en promenad uppe på Alvaret och ta bilder på Chris.">We end the interview taking a walk up on Alvar and taking pictures of Chris. </span><span title="Väl där berättar Chris att Alvaret är ett andningshål för honom och Madeleine:
">Once there, Chris tells us that Alvar is a beathtaking for him and Madeleine:<br /><i><br /></i></span><i><span title="– Vi brukar försöka ta oss hit varje dag.">We usually try to get here every day. </span></i><span title="Det är ju enormt vackert.
"><i>It's tremendously beautiful.</i></span><span title="Där mitt på Alvaret börjar jag och Chris prata om allt det som just nu sker i världen.">There, in the middle of Alvar, Chris and I talk about everything that is currently happening in the world. </span><span title="Allt från dåden i Nice till nu senast Turkiet.
">Everything from attacks in Nice to, most recently, Turkey.<br /><i><br /></i></span><i><span title="– Det är alldeles fruktansvärt.">It's just terrible. </span></i><span title="Alldeles fruktansvärt, säger han och skakar på huvudet.
"><i>Just terrible,</i> he says and shakes his head.</span><span title="Vi pratar om det engelska valet för att stanna eller lämna EU.">We're talking about the English choice to stay or leave the EU. </span><span title="Det som blev brexit – lämna EU:
">It became brexit - leave EU</span><i><span title="– Med tanke på mitt arbete förstår du säkert vad jag tycker om brexit.">Due to my work, you probably understand what I think about brexit. </span><span title="Så klart England inte ska lämna.">Of course England will not leave. </span><span title="Jag tror att nej-sidan vann för att det var just de som är missnöjda och vill ha ut England från EU gick och röstade.">I believe that no side won because it was precisely those who are dissatisfied and want out England from the EU went and voted. </span></i><span title="Hade fler som vill stanna gått till vallokalerna hade det sett annorlunda ut.
"><i>Had more people who want to stay gone to the polling stations had been different.</i></span><span title="– Men det som sker nu är inget bra.
"> <i>But what is happening now is not good.</i></span><span title="Innan vi ska skiljas åt frågar jag Chris om han följer det kommande valet i USA:
">Before we be separated, I ask Chris if he follows the forthcoming elections in the United States:</span><span title="– Ja, självklart.
"><i>Yes of course.</i><br /><b><br /></b></span><span title="Trump eller Hillary?
"><b>Trump or Hillary?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Trump eller Hillary?
"><b> </b></span><i><span title="– Jag kan väl säga så mycket som att om Clinton blir vald har vi tre kvinnor i ledning i fem av världens ledande ekonomier.">Well I can say as much as that of Clinton is elected we have three
women in leadership in five of the world's leading economies. </span></i><span title="Det vore fantastiskt.
"><i>It would be amazing.</i></span><span title="Chris ursäktar sig.">Chris apologizes. </span><span title="Inne på Solliden väntar Madeleine och barnen Leonore och Nicolas.
">Inside Solliden are waiting Madeleine and the children Leonore and Nicolas.</span><i><span title="– Madeleine har lite vänner på besök med barn.">Madeleine has some friends visiting with children. </span><span title="Så det blir stranden och bad i dag.">So it becomes the beach and swimming in the day. </span></i><span title="Ännu en fantastisk familjedag på Öland, konstaterar han med ett stort leende."><i>Another great family day at Öland, </i>he says with a big smile.</span></span><br />
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<li><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ännu en fantastisk familjedag på Öland, konstaterar han med ett stort leende."><a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/kungligt/chris-madeleine-och-jag-vill-ha-fler-barn/" target="_blank">Read original in Swedish. </a></span></span></li>
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-17246016190819430382016-07-11T12:45:00.000-07:002016-07-11T12:45:06.362-07:00Crown Princess Mary for VOGUE Australia, August 2016.<center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his was going to be the story of a beautiful princess in a faraway kingdom surrounded by her handsome prince and adorable children living happily ever after. Twelve years on from our first Vogue interview with HRH Crown Princess Mary, just months after the royal wedding in 2004, this was to be the next chapter in a fairytale. Following my trip to Copenhagen I can attest that HRH Crown Prince Frederik is indeed intelligent and handsome, with a charming grin and twinkle in his eye. The four young royal princes and princesses are irresistibly gorgeous, polite and being raised by loving parents. But my visit to Copenhagen also taught me that to end the story there would be an injustice to the Crown Princess, who inspires so much more than a belief that real-life fairytales can come true. There are palaces, manicured gardens, ballrooms and jewels in this story, along with obvious and very real love in the life of the Crown Princess. From what I witnessed, this young royal family manages duty, majesty and an admirable amount of normality with aplomb. Priorities, love and discipline seem to be keys. I left Copenhagen thinking: 'There is a woman who wakes up every day and tries to be her best self', and feeling like I needed to commit to the same thing. Inspiring people to do better seems to be somewhat of an innate talent of the Crown Princess, who leads by setting a fine example, and I was certainly not immune. In Australia, we pore over images of the Crown Princess dressed in beautiful and appropriate outfits attending events in Denmark or abroad on royal tours, but we only see part of the picture. Crown Princess Mary handles her royal occasions with grace and poise while remaining welcoming and friendly: the perfect blend of regal and real. Dressed up or down, her presence is commanding, but what is most striking is her intelligence; she is a focused and dedicated woman who is making her mark as a global leader and agent for change on the world stage.<br />
In Danish there is a word, ildsjael, which roughly translates to mean "someone with a fire in their belly", and the Crown Princess is certainly an ildsjael who burns for a
cause and has the power to act. She is committed to using the position
royalty allows to speak up for those who do not have a voice, as a
champion for gender equality and sustainability.<br />
During the month Vogue
and Mario Testino visited Copenhagen to photograph this cover and take
these beautiful pictures, the Crown Princess also opened two important
conferences: the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which focuses on sustainable
practices within the fashion and textile industries; and Women Deliver
2016, the largest global conference on the rights, health and wellbeing
of girls and women in the past decade. And aside from her family and
country, it's clear this is where her passions lie.<br />
"I see my role as
not just being a voice of the voiceless, but also being able to be a
catalyst for bringing people and relevant actors together," she tells
me. "I believe that in order to find solutions to some of the most
pressing global challenges of today we need to take a holistic approach
that requires us to consider the social, environmental and economic
aspects and work together in new and innovative partnerships, maybe with
people and organisations we wouldn't have thought about working with
before. <br />
"It will require a continuous effort and patience, and strong and authentic leadership: it takes time to create real and sustainable change. I try, as effectively as possibly, to use the platform that I have built up over the years to advocate and work for the empowerment of women and girls and the protection and respect of their human rights."<br />
I ask her if she sees herself as a role model: "I find it difficult to speak of myself as a role model, as role models are defined by the individual. It is what they see in a person that gives meaning or inspiration to them that makes another person a role model for them. It's not something I consciously think about. But at the same time, I am very aware of my role and my responsibility. If I can inspire others and if others see something in me that can motivate them, then that's a big compliment." Many women, including Natasha Stott Despoja, who was an Australian delegate at the Women Deliver conference, admire the Crown Princess for her authentic and commendable commitment to the issue of gender equality.<br />
"For me, gender equality means equal access to education, health services and information, economic participation and political representation," explains the Crown Princess, who wants all girls and women to have equal opportunities so they can fulfil their full potential. She becomes particularly impassioned when we discuss some of the remarkable women and ildsjaels she has met: "They and the youth at the Women Deliver conference are the people who inspire and motivate me."<br />
Unlike celebrity, royalty comes with a large amount of duty, which is something royals have managed with varying degrees of success. Modern royalty comes with the added complication of an unforgiving media spotlight, which is never switched off. In this environment it would be easy to understand why a royal might choose an easier path than committing herself to tackling some of the most pressing problems on the planet. But Crown Princess Mary is not that type of royal; she is not one to shy away from a challenge. Her desire to help is governed by a deep sense of justice and fairness is a strong, overarching value.<br />
"One thing I have always found difficult from as early as I can remember is seeing people who appear to be alone," she says. "It has always affected me deeply and I can't explain why. To see people standing on the outside looking in, who can't understand why they aren't part of a community or group. We all have this innate fear of not belonging; as humans we have a fundamental need to feel like a valuable and an accepted member of a community or group."<br />
And so the Mary Foundation was formed 10 years ago, thanks to a generous wedding gift of 1 million Danish Krone, and the idea of creating a foundation that was different and could give something back to people who are socially isolated.<br />
"We all have the right to belong. Domestic violence, bullying and loneliness, they are our three focus areas," explains the Crown Princess, and within these focus areas we have different initiatives, projects and partnerships to address the complex problems within these focus areas. Those three areas were chosen because they all have links to social isolation and many of them are very taboo or overlooked. The abused woman, the bullied child and the lonely adolescent feel very, very alone in the world with their problems and will often never share them. The problem feeds on isolation and isolation feeds on the problem; the Mary Foundation is all about the value of community and belonging, something that is fundamental for each and every one of us."<br />
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Her commitment to tackle difficult, often taboo issues was a driving force 10 years ago, but where did it come from? "It's difficult to explain; I have not always been so driven. Over the years you develop and grow, you have your earlier years where you just do what you have to do but, once you find your passion, things change in many ways. One thing my parents always said to me was: 'Do your best', whether you were going to a sporting event, sitting an exam or helping a friend, it was always: 'Do your best', and I think that builds in you a sense of duty and responsibility to fulfil your potential."<br />
Her father, John Dalgleish Donaldson, is a professor of mathematics and has spent more time working in Copenhagen since her wedding; her mother Henrietta Clark Donaldson was an executive assistant at the University of Tasmania, and passed away in 1997. The hymn Eternal Father was included in the royal wedding ceremony in 2004 in memory of her.<br />
It was obvious from the moment she appeared in public life that the Crown Princess was a perfect fashion plate and it was no surprise that the Danish fashion community was quick to adopt her as its patron of the Danish Fashion Fair. But the Crown Princess is not the type of woman to be content simply sitting in the front row of fashion shows as a celebrity guest. Instead, she has used her influence and knowledge to promote the most significant global summit on sustainable fashion, which in this its seventh year attracted a powerhouse of speakers and guests.<br />
"The Danish Fashion Institute approached me to get involved and at that time it was clear that the fashion industry needed to make some fundamental changes?" explains the Crown Princess. "I believed in the Fashion Institute's initiative and its ideas to be a catalyst for bringing influential decision makers in fashion, business and politics together to engage in discussions on how to tackle the growing environmental and social footprints that the industry leaves across the globe."<br />
Denmark is an obvious choice to host such an initiative, with its strong reputation for and focus on renewable energy, often demonstrating that it is possible to generate economic growth while causing minimal environmental damage. In July last year, unusually strong winds meant Denmark's windfarms produced 140 per cent of the nation's electricity needs and the surplus was sold to neighbouring countries Germany, Norway and Sweden. A surge in windfarm installations could mean Denmark is able to produce half its electricity needs from renewable sources and meet its 70 per cent target date of 2020. By 2050, the country plans to meet 100 per cent of its energy needs from renewables, abandoning coal, oil and gas forever.<br />
And it isn't just in sustainability that Denmark is leading the way. In March this year the country was again rated the happiest place in the world by the UN World Happiness Report (WHR). It's a nation offering admirable leadership in environmental challenges, and design in Denmark is unsurpassed (every restaurant and public space in Copenhagen is a study in good taste), yet it is also a country of high taxes and long dark winters, which is not what you would call the perfect recipe for a happy population. The secret to their success seems to me to be a sense of fairness and equality. Denmark is a country with a constitutional monarchy, a royal family with the longest continuous royal lineage, and yet in this nation you don't get an overarching sense of an aristocracy or privilege shared only among a select few. This relatively egalitarian approach to life is nothing new. The 18th-century Danish philosopher Nikolaj Grundtvig said Denmark was a country where "few have too much, and even fewer have too little".<br />
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It is also a country in which a royal family has not only survived but thrived. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik's mother, is known for her love of painting and the arts. Danes celebrated with gusto when the much-adored monarch turned 76 earlier this year.<br />
Likewise, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess are applauded for their unaffected manner: the royal couple are often spotted pedalling their young twins, five-year-olds Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, to school — they sit in a little bucket on the front of their mother's bike.<br />
The day following our photo shoot we bumped into the Crown Princess while fashion director Christine Centenera and I were out exercising. I am not sure who I felt more sorry for: the royal guards who, dressed in their regalia, raised their guns in salute until HRH left the square, which we delayed because of our chatter; or us, dressed in our sweats. When I was a little girl my grandmother instructed me to always leave the house looking my best, because you never know who you might run in to. Her words were ringing in my ears as I talked to the Crown Princess in my trainers.<br />
And yet the Crown Princess made us feel comfortable, as though she was
just another mother on the school run, albeit beautifully but casually
dressed, and perfectly groomed. The Crown Prince is equally warm and at
ease in public, as we discovered when Testino photographed the royal
couple on a chalup for Vogue, with the Amalienborg Palace glowing behind
in the sunset. It was an unusually sunny day in Copenhagen and some
happy Danes had decided to take out an open barge and indulge in a few
drinks at sundown. Recognising the royal couple, they directed the
skipper to come closer to the yacht and called out waving and cheering.
The Crown Prince smiled broadly, laughing and waving back as though they
were long-lost friends.<br />
Patrick Kinmonth was also on the photo shoot
and is a long-time collaborator of Testino's. He was a creative director
for fashion and portraiture shoots for British Vogue, and has been
responsible for many royal portraits during his career, including the
famous images Testino took of Diana, Princess of Wales, for Vanity Fair
in 1997, and the portraits of the Crown Prince and Princess that were
hung in the Mario Testino No Limits exhibition, which opened in
Copenhagen the week we were in town. Today, Kinmonth is widely known for
his stage, costume, opera, ballet, interior and architectural designs.<br />
"The Crown Princess looks more beautiful than ever and profoundly
settled into her working life in the royal family," says Kinmonth. "One
of their outstanding qualities is in the sharing of their privilege and
making one feel completely at home. I cannot say which of them is more
adept at this — it's a tie!"<br />
Amalienborg Palace is actually made up of
four different palaces that surround a square. The Crown Prince and
Princess live with their family in the north-eastern palace named after
royal forbearer Frederik VIII; it is also known as Brockdorff's Palace.
The royal couple renovated their home in 2009. With his critical eye,
Kinmonth best sums up the beautiful interiors, which feature the work of
young Danish artists prominently, saying the radical inclusion of works
by contemporary artists in this historical Danish landmark building is
integral to the decor, which he feels speaks to the way this thoroughly
modern royal family choose to live.<br />
"There is a wonderful relaxed
atmosphere and genuine warmth and elegance," he says. There are grand
rooms, but within the palace there is also a comfortable home including a
chic modern, wooden Danish kitchen, in which Vogue took the beautiful
family portrait featured in this issue.<br />
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I was one of the speakers
invited to dinner at Frederik VIII's Palace on the eve of the opening of
the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. Another of the palaces across the square
is usually used for official receptions and I was told it was unusual
for the royal couple to open their home.<br />
We arrived into a grand
reception room, where our names were collected to be read out
individually so that we might be formally presented to the Crown Prince
and Princess. (Yes, just like in the fairytales.) I have to confess,
walking towards this beautiful couple, who were all smiles but so
handsomely dressed and possessing an even more regal presence in such a
grand situation, was a rather surreal moment. Once inside, I could fully
appreciate the beautiful decoration and scale of the sumptuous rooms.
Then things became more surreal when we were seated at the dining table
under a row of enormous chandeliers sipping from glassware each stamped
with the double monogram of the couple, and the Copenhagen Boys Choir
surrounded us and began to sing. I have seen many a haute couture show
and some rather amazing events, but this was far more beautiful.<br />
Much
has been written about the Crown Princess's former life in Australia,
where she was born in Hobart in 1972, mostly focusing on her chance
meeting with the Crown Prince during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. What is
often omitted is that she holds a Bachelor of Commerce/ Laws, having
graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1994. Between 1996 and 2003
she had several jobs in advertising and she made a move to Paris in
2002. When she moved to Copenhagen she was employed by Microsoft
Business Solutions. Australians who knew her before she married tell me
she was always exceptional and insist she was destined for great things.
Danes who I spoke to — from my taxi driver to a school friend of the
Crown Prince —adore her and rave about her ability to learn Danish so
quickly and proficiently, which speaks again of her intelligence and the
impeccable job she has done in her royal role. Today she speaks English
with a European accent and apologises when she occasionally labours to
find an English translation for something she is trying to explain; she
clearly thinks in Danish. And yet there were a few instances during our
shoot when she suddenly breaks into her Australian accent just for our
entertainment.<br />
Humour, intelligence and a desire to give their children
as normal an upbringing as possible are just some of the qualities the
royal couple share. Their first son, Prince Christian, was born on October 15, 2005. Now 10, he will succeed his father as a future King of Denmark one day. Princess Isabella arrived in 2007, and then the royal couple decided they would add one more to their family, only to be pleasantly surprised with twins: Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, in 2011. With such a young family I wonder if her children understand the importance of the work their mum is doing.<br />
"(Gender equality) as a topic of conversation is probably something that occurs more subconsciously. It's not an issue we discuss directly unless, of course, I'm sharing with them stories or experiences from my travels and work. It's interesting to hear what their responses and reflections are. It is not only what they see and experience but what the messages we as parents give them both consciously and unconsciously. They are privileged to be growing up in a (Danish) society where men and women, for the most, are equal, and they also see that in our relationship."<br />
When Vogue interviewed the Crown Princess in 2004, she said she believed monarchies today are flexible and open enough to allow a modern woman to combine her aspirations with tradition and that she hoped she proved worthy of the enthusiastic acceptance she had received from the Danish people. "I have to believe I wouldn't be here if I couldn't do this," she said. When I suggest she should be proud of her achievements and that Australians certainly are, for the first time in our conversation she struggles to respond. The Crown Princess is not very good at taking a compliment.<br />
"I would say I'm not very good at accepting praise and recognition," she agrees. "I have a strong perfectionist streak, which means that, for example, if I look back over a speech I tend to focus on the bit that was not quite right, instead of everything else that was good." The famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen wrote: "Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale." He might have written that for Crown Princess Mary, who is living each day giving it 100 per cent.<br />
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She's a fierce advocate for gender equality, but it's Crown Princess Mary's charm and intelligence that made her message all the more powerful as honoured guest at a welcome reception hosted by the Australian ambassador to Denmark to celebrate Australia's participation in one of the most dynamic women's conferences in the world. Women Deliver, held in Copenhagen in May, was the largest global conference on the health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women in a decade, and the Australian-born princess was its patron. I led the official Australian delegation, joined by 80 Australian delegates from non-government organisations, universities, youth groups and medical research institutes.<br />
Many of these people are unsung heroes in their work, which ranges from maternal and child health to ending child marriage. As specialists in their field, they are not easily impressed, yet they were all in awe of Crown Princess Mary's knowledge, perception and understanding of the issues. The Crown Princess chatted happily and informally for hours with us, covering topics such as sexual and reproductive health, midwifery, the role of young people and LGBTI rights. The tabloid headlines the next day, however, focused on her sartorial choice and debated whether she had stepped out in an electric blue dress or a jumpsuit. Apparently it was a pantsuit, as the Crown Princess was gracious enough to do a twirl when asked by some of the guests. It is this down-to-earth manner and charm that endears the Crown Princess to her nation and to legions of fans around the world. These admirers are no clutch of simpering royal watchers: it is the global women's movement that has come to respect and claim her. In September 2015, at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York, which celebrated the adoption of the UN sustainable development goals, Crown Princess Mary asked: "Next time someone asks you or you ask yourself: 'What the most important thing that can be done to improve the world?' You know the answer: gender equality."<br />
I recall literally bumping into her at that event as I rushed around to catch a glimpse of Coldplay and Malala Yousafzai. She looked like any hip New Yorker. She was one of the crowd and seemed surprised that anyone would recognise her. Her pronounced support for gender equality is not new. Her commitment to these issues has been ongoing for more than a decade. The Crown Princess has used her power and privilege to advance these causes in her home country and abroad. She is a staple at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and is a member of the High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development, which works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights. But Women Deliver was Crown Princess Mary's most significant platform to date.<br />
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About 6,000 women descended on Copenhagen and it was the perfect city for such a conference. The conference centre, like the capital, is sustainable, modern and edgy. It had everything from an abundance of environmentally friendly bathrooms to recycled brown paper packaged lunch bags. Copenhagen is a picture-postcard liveable, green city. Everyone is on a bike and the town is clean and accessible. Denmark is also a nation used to women in positions of power and to powerful men who talk as easily about women's empowerment and sexual and reproductive rights as they do about football. <br />
As a former senator, I felt I was in an episode of Borgen, the Danish series featuring a progressive female leader of a minor party who becomes Prime Minister. The Danes are not afraid of powerful women. And the royal family exemplifies this commitment to gender equality, at least. Crown Princess Mary's opening address to Women Deliver frankly pleaded with governments and society to do more to achieve gender equality. She stated that closing the gender gap should be a priority in all modern societies. "It will require strong and authentic leadership from governments and civil society. By working as one and closing the gender gap we become more powerful," she said. It is not unusual to see the front row of multi-lateral summits reserved for royalty along with heads of states and ministers. Women Deliver was no different, as modern European, mostly female, royals lined the rows.<br />
Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands ("Call me Mabel") chairs Girls Not Brides, which is committed to ending child, early and forced marriage. She sat with Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. It can be a challenge for us hard-line republicans, but these contemporary monarchs are using their privilege and opportunities for domestic progress and for the global good. Crown Princess Mary has established the Mary Foundation, which focuses on bullying and wellbeing, domestic violence and loneliness. In addition, she is patron of the Maternity Foundation, which works to secure survival of women when pregnant or giving birth. She is patron of the United Nations Population Fund, which tries to ensure each pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and young people do not get HIV/AIDS. And she is patron of the Danish Mother's Help, which gives support and counsel to families or single mothers. She is our strongest link in our blossoming Australian-Danish relations. As I left the conference, I drove past Amalienborg Palace, where Crown Princess Mary and her family live, and saw that an Australian and Danish crowd had gathered for a function to commemorate Jim Utzon, the Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.<br />
The first time I met Her Royal Highness was during her first official visit to Australia when she came to the Federal Parliament. Like many politicians and their families, I was part of a scrum in the Great Hall keen to see an Australian princess. I was with my husband, Ian, and my 12-week-old son, Conrad. As Conrad was restless in the BabyBjorn held by Ian, we began to bounce up and down to cajole him. Just as we were about to leave, the Crown Princess appeared. She greeted us warmly with a noticeable Australian accent (these days her English has a strong Danish inflection), but as I shook her hand I blurted: "Oh goodness, we are still bouncing!" She replied: "That's fine, we will all bounce together." And she did. That moment crystallised her empathy and kindness and I have been fortunate to see it on the world stage ever since.<br />
As Jill Sheffield, the president of Women Deliver, remarked: "She does her homework, she delivers and she's well-spoken and smart." At Women Deliver, Crown Princess Mary urged us: "Together, let's deliver for girls to have choice, not chance." Our Australian-born princess is using every chance to ensure just that. ■ <i>Natasha Stott Despoja is the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls. </i><br />
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<li>Photos: Mario Testino</li>
<li>Article originally published on August issue of VOGUE Australia.</li>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Drottningen och kungen ser tillbaka på fyrtio år av familjeliv.">The Queen and King look back on forty years of family life. </span><span title="
Trebarnsföräldrarna om bilden av Madeleine, Estelle i offentligheten och hur vi tar emot flyktingbarnen som kommer över Öresundsbron.
">Being parents of three children, on photos of Madeleine and Estelle in public and
how we receive refugee children coming across the Oresund Bridge.</span><span title="Det är en av sommarens första riktigt varma kvällar."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det är en av sommarens första riktigt varma kvällar."></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det är en av sommarens första riktigt varma kvällar.">It is one of summer's first really warm evenings. </span><span title="På uppfartsvägen till Drottningholms slott går grupper av turister med näsan i kartan och studenter kånkar picknickkorgar.">On
the driveway to Drottningholm Palace there are groups of tourists with
their noses in the map and students drag picnic baskets. </span><span title="I barnvagnarna som knastrar förbi i det tjocka gruset ligger värmeslöa barn i solhattar och håller lojt om nappflaskor och gosedjur.
">The baby carriages crunching past in the thick gravel and children in sun hats and holding lazily on baby bottles
and stuffed animals.<br /></span><span title="Det här är kungaparets hem den största delen av året.
">This is the royal couple's home the biggest part of the year.<br /></span><span title="Vi rullar upp med bilen till vakten vid den privata delen av slottsparken.">We roll up the car to the guard at the private part of the park. </span><span title="Vi får höra att kungen är försenad.">We are told that the King is delayed. </span><span title="Samma dag har han här i DN varit kritisk mot Nobel Centers placering och i medierna cirklar reaktionerna runt.">The same day, he was critical on the Nobel Centers placement and media circles reactions around. </span><span title="Fotografen Paul Hansen blir lite stressad eftersom han vet att han måste ha tid på sig för att rigga en bra fotoplats.
">The photographer Paul Hansen gets a little stressed out because he knows that he must have time to rig a good photo spot.<br /></span><span title="Snart ska kungen berätta om hur fri han kände sig på internatskolan på Sigtuna, han som vuxit upp inne på slottet i stan.">Soon, the King explains how free he felt at the boarding school in Sigtuna, how he grew up inside the castle in the town. </span><span title="Men där är vi inte ännu.
">But we are not there yet.<br /></span><span title="Jag har alltid varit fascinerad av kungahuset.">I have always been fascinated by the Royal Family. </span><span title="När jag som barn lekte kontor klippte vi ut bilder ur veckotidningar och klistrade upp på kartong och hade som ”fästmän” på skrivbordet, precis som vi sett på film.">When I played office as a child, we cut out pictures from magazines and glued them up on the board and had our "fiancés" on the desktop, just like
we've seen on films. </span><span title="Mina kompisar hade Björn Ulvaeus eller Svenne Hedlund.">My friends had Bjorn Ulvaeus or Svenne Hedlund. </span><span title="Själv hade jag kungen, i full mundering med medaljer och allt.
">I myself had the King in full regalia with medals and all.<br /></span><span title="Kungafamiljen är en sorts förhöjd familj som man studerar, om det så gäller kläder eller relationer.">The Royal Family is a kind of elevated family that you study, if it comes to clothes or relationships. </span><span title="När jag läste kulturminister Alice Bah Kuhnkes intervjubok med kronprinsessan, ”Victoria, Victoria”, tänkte jag: hon är ju jag!">When I read Alice Bah Kuhnke's book of interviews with the Crown Princess, "Victoria, Victoria," I thought, she's me! </span><span title="En högpresterande storasyster.
">A high-performance big sister.<br /></span><span title="När jag yppar detta lilla specialintresse tar det sällan mer än några sekunder innan jag är inne i en animerad diskussion om det absurda och odemokratiska i att man 2016 kan ärva ett ämbete.">When
I disclose this small special interest it takes rarely more than a few
seconds before I'm inside an animated discussion on the absurd and
undemocratic that 2016 may inherit in office. </span><span title="Allt det stämmer.">All that is true. </span><span title="Ändå är det konstigt att just den här fascinationen är en sådan trigger.">Yet it is strange that this particular fascination is such a trigger. </span><span title="När jag härom veckan skrev en krönika om min fäbless för kungabröllop kom en kollega fram och viskade: ”jag är precis som du!">When I last week wrote a column about my exitement for the Royal Wedding a colleague came to me and whispered: "I'm just like you! </span><span title="Jag minns liksom hur jag tillsammans med mormor och mamma tittade på gästernas klänningar i Hemmets journal”.
">I remember as well how I along with grandmother and mother looked on guests dresses in Home's Journal ".<br /></span><span title="När hon säger det faller något på plats.">When she says something, it falls into place. </span><span title="Det här intresset är klart starkare i den kvinnliga delen av befolkningen.">This interest is clearly stronger in the female population. </span><span title="Därför anses det också extra löjligt och beklämmande.
">Therefore, it is also considered additionally ridiculous and sickening.<br /></span><span title="Så därför sitter jag stolt här i bilen och tänker dessutom prata med kungaparet om ett ämne som anses hedervärt men lite jolmigt, något som borde vara högstatus men definieras som lågstatus.">So
therefore I sit here proud on the car and also think talking to the Royal Couple about a topic that is considered honorable, something that should be high status but is defined as the low
status. </span><span title="Barn.
">Children.<br /></span><span title="På väg till fotograferingen.">On the way to the shoot. </span><span title="Drottning Silvia, hovets informationschef Margareta Thorgren, DN:s Åsa Beckman, adjutant med hunden Brandie och kungen.
">Queen Silvia, the court Communications manager Margareta Thorgren, DN's Åsa Beckman and the King accompanied by his dog Brandie.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Drottning Silvia, hovets informationschef Margareta Thorgren, DN:s Åsa Beckman, adjutant med hunden Brandie och kungen.
"><br /></span><span title="Nu blir vi äntligen insläppta och rullar in genom de gröna grindarna.">Now we are finally let in and roll through the green gates. </span><span title="Vi får höra att kungen har anlänt och att drottningen bara ska byta kläder.">We are told that the King has arrived and that the Queen should just change clothes. </span><span title="I den privata delen av parken ner mot Mälaren börjar Paul rigga utrustningen.">In the private part of the park towards Lake Mälaren, Paul begins rigging his equipment. </span><span title="Solen sjunker och medan vi väntar får vi flytta om fotoblixten flera gånger.">The sun drops and while we wait, we move on photo flash several times. </span><span title="Ett rådjur skjuter skrämt ur ett snår och flyr över en av träbroarna så att klövarna smattrar i tystnaden.
">A startled deer shoot out of a thicket and flees across one of the wooden bridges so that the hooves clatter in the silence.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ett rådjur skjuter skrämt ur ett snår och flyr över en av träbroarna så att klövarna smattrar i tystnaden.
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">The Queen</span><span title="Först dyker drottningen upp bakom en rhododendronbuske, lugnt promenerande i gräset."> is the first to pop behind a rhododendron bush, calmly strolling in the grass. </span><span title="Hon är klädd i en ljus dräkt med beiga skor.">She is dressed in a light suit with beige shoes. </span><span title="Efter kommer kungen med den bayerska viltspårhunden Brandie i koppel, iklädd blå kostym och vit skjorta.">Afterwards comes the King with Brandie, wearing a blue suit and white shirt. </span><span title="Hunden har ivrigt nosen långt framme, hon känner att det varit något vilt här.">The dog has eagerly nose forefront, she feels that there has been something wild here. </span><span title="”God kväll, ers majestäter”, säger vi, även om vi vid förmötet på slottet informerats om att man inte behöver vara så fasligt formell i mindre sammanhang.
">"Good evening, Your Majesties," we say, even if we are at the
preliminary meeting, the palace informed that we didn't need to be so
dreadful in less formal contexts.<br /></span><span title="Paul har sett ut en bänk som informationschefen Margareta Thorgren snabbt torkat av.">Paul has been sitting in a bench that Communications Manager Margareta Thorgren quickly dried off. </span><span title="Kungaparet slår sig ner och informationschefen påpekar att det ju är 40 år sedan de gifte sig och att de gärna får se lite romantiska ut.">The Royal Couple sits down and the Communications Manager points out that it's 40
years since they were married and that they would get to see a little
romance out. </span><span title="Drottningen böjer sig vänligt fram mot kungen och tittar uppmärksamt på honom.">Queen bends friendly toward the king and looks intently at him. </span><span title="Han tittar åt lite olika håll och påpekar att det finns bävrar i viken.
">He looks slightly in different directions and points out that there are beavers in the Gulf.<br /></span><span title="Sedan går vi tillbaka mot slottet och släpps in i en än mer avgränsad trädgård, inramad av jättelika, ståtliga tujor.">Then we go back to the castle and are dropped into an even more distinct garden, framed by giant, stately Thuja. </span><span title="Gruset är noggrant krattat.">The gravel is carefully raked. </span><span title="Kungaparet sätter sig tillrätta på en bänk och jag på en lite allmogeartad stol framför dem.">The Royal Couple sets themselves comfortable on a bench and I on a little peasant-like chair in front of them. </span><span title="En robotgräsklippare rör sig långsamt, fram och tillbaka, bakom oss.
">A robotic lawnmower is moving slowly, back and forth, behind us.<br /></span><span title="En bit bort står adjutanten i motljus och håller kungens hund.
">A short distance away stands the adjutant of the backlight that keeps the King's dog.<br /></span><span title="Kungen tillsammans med sin bayerska viltspårhund, som blev känd för svenska folket i tv-dokumentären ”Ensamt majestät”.">The King is accompanied
with his wild Bavarian bloodhound, who became known to the Swedish
people in the television documentary "Ensamnt Majestät". </span><span title="Under en intervjupromenad med Claes Elfsberg rymmer hunden och utlöser kungliga svordomar.
"><br /></span><span title="Sedan kungens tsunamital 2005 har jag varit nyfiken på deras syn på barn och föräldraskap.">After the King's speech after the 2005 tsunami, I have been curious about their views on children and parenting. </span><span title="Vid den stora minnesceremonin i Stadshuset klev kungen fram och talade om hur vuxna nu måste sluta upp runt barn som mist föräldrar, syskon, vänner.">At
the large memorial ceremony at the City Hall, the King stepped up and talked
about how adults now must rally around the children who lost parents,
siblings, friends. </span><span title="Och han riktade en speciell vädjan till män i hans generation som haft extra svårt att visa känslor.">And he directed a special appeal to the men of his generation who had extra hard to show feelings. </span><span title="Ett ovanligt tal för en statschef, både stadigt och skört och just därför förtroendeingivande.
">An unusual number for a head of state, both stable and fragile, and precisely because confidence.</span><span title="Han är hertig av Jämtland.
"><br /></span><span title="När jag säger att jag vill prata med dem om barn undslipper sig kungen ett ”jösses!” men stramar snabbt upp sig.
">When I say that I want to talk to them about the children, the King lets out a "gee!" But quickly tightens up.<br /></span><span title="– Vi har lyckan att ha både barn och barnbarn.
"><i>We have the good fortune to have children and grandchildren.</i><br /></span><b><span title="Ni har ju fått fem barnbarn på bara fem år.">You've got five grandchildren in just five years. </span></b><span title="Hur har det förändrat familjen?
"><b>How has it changed the family?</b><br /></span><span title="– Jag tycker att Prins Carl Philip uttryckte det väldigt fint efter tedeum (tacksägelsegudstjänsten, reds anm), säger drottningen."><i>I think that Prince Carl Philip put it very nicely on the Te Deums</i>, the Queen says. </span><i><span title="I ett litet tal till gästerna pratade han om hur svårt det är att beskriva känslan av att ha fått barn.">In a little speech to the guests, he talked about how difficult it is to describe the feeling of having a baby. </span><span title="Det är ett sånt under.">It is one of those wonders. </span><span title="Man känner stor värme och tacksamhet, men också ett otroligt stort ansvar.">You feel great warmth and gratitude, but also an incredible responsibility. </span><span title="Jag tror att alla föräldrar känner samma ansvar, de vill göra det bästa för sina barn.">I think all parents feel the same responsibility, they want to do the best for their children. </span><span title="Men dagen går, man har sitt arbete, sedan stressar man hem.">But the day is, it has its work, since stress to home. </span></i><span title="Det är svårt för barn att befinna sig i den stressen.
"><i>It is difficult for children to be in the hustle.</i><br /></span><span title="– Vi själva hade ju ett ganska fullt program, säger kungen."><i>We ourselves had a fairly full program, </i>says the King. </span><i><span title="Det är nog inte förrän efteråt man har förstått att vi var borta väldigt mycket.">They won't probably understand until afterwards what we went through. </span><span title="Tyvärr.">Unfortunately. </span><span title="Något som vi kanske inte märkte eller kände då.">Something we may not be noticed or felt then. </span></i><span title="Vi hade ju alltid en barnflicka som kunde hjälpa till och vara stand in men det är ju aldrig samma sak.
"><i>We always had a nanny who could help and be stand out but it's never the same thing.</i><br /></span><span title="Han tittar på gräsklipparen som vänder vid en kaprifol.
">He looks at the lawnmower aimed at a honeysuckle.<br /><i><br /></i></span><i><span title="– Nu efteråt har vi förstått att barnen tyckte att det var tråkigt att vi var tvungna att lämna dem så ofta som vi gjorde.">Afterwards, we have understood that the kids thought it was sad that we had to leave them as often as we did. </span><span title="Det tänkte man inte på då.">The thought is not the time. </span><span title="Jo, man tänkte på det men satt fast i programmet och det var svårt att bryta det.">Well, you thought about it but was stuck in the program and it was hard to break it. </span></i><span title="Jag har inte räknat, men jag tror att Victoria är mer hemma än vi var.
"><i>I have not counted, but I think Victoria is more at home than we were.</i></span><span title="– Hon är mammaledig och det var ju inte vi på den tiden, säger drottningen.
"><i> She is on maternity leave, and we didn't do that at the time,</i> says the Queen.</span><span title="Nu efteråt har vi förstått att barnen tyckte att det var tråkigt att vi var tvungna att lämna dem så ofta som vi gjorde."> </span><span title="Kungen
"><br /></span><b><span title="En vän till mig brukar säga att man alltid kommer att sörja den förälder man aldrig blev.">A friend of mine used to say that a new child gets the parent you never were. </span></b><span title="Stämmer det?
"><b>Is it true?</b><br /></span><span title="– Javisst, så är det, säger kungen.
"><i>Yes, it is,</i> says the King.</span><span title="– Det tänker man ju på varje gång man fått ett nytt barn, säger drottningen."> <i>I think it depends after every time you have a new child, </i>the Queen says. </span><i><span title="På ett sätt får varje barn i en syskonkull andra föräldrar, trots att det är samma.">In a way, each child has other parents than their siblings had, even though it is the same. </span><span title="Man förändras hela tiden själv.">It changes all the time for myself. </span><span title="Man kräver inte lika mycket av det sista barnet som man gjorde med det första.">The last child doesn't require as much time as you did with the first. </span><span title="Man är mindre nervös.">It is less nervous. </span></i><span title="Varje barn får egentligen nya föräldrar.
"><i>Each child really gets new parents.</i><br /></span><span title="De säger båda att de alltid blir lika förvånade när de lyssnar på barnen eftersom de beskriver sin uppväxt så olika.
">They both say that they always will be as surprised when they listen
to their children as they describe their childhood so different.<br /></span><span title="– Själv gick jag ju på internatskola, säger kungen."><i>Of course, I went to boarding school,</i> says the King. </span><i><span title="I början var det jobbigt men sedan blev den en positiv upplevelse.">In the beginning it was hard, but then it became a positive experience. </span><span title="För mina kamrater var det betydligt jobbigare eftersom de hade det friare hemma.">For my colleagues it was much harder because they had a freer home. </span><span title="Men för mig blev livet enklare, inte så kringskuret.">But for me, life was simpler, not so circumscribed. </span></i><span title="Jag bodde ju på slottet, jag kunde inte röra mig fritt, men i Sigtuna kunde jag göra det, i alla fall när jag blev lite äldre.
"><i>I was staying at the castle, I could not move freely, but in Sigtuna, I could do it, at least when I was a little older.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Jag bodde ju på slottet, jag kunde inte röra mig fritt, men i Sigtuna kunde jag göra det, i alla fall när jag blev lite äldre.
"><i><br /></i></span></span>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Jag bodde ju på slottet, jag kunde inte röra mig fritt, men i Sigtuna kunde jag göra det, i alla fall när jag blev lite äldre.
"><br /></span><span title="För nästan exakt 40 år sedan, den 19 juni 1976, gifte sig kungen och drottningen.">Almost exactly 40 years ago, on June 19, 1976, the King and Queen got married. </span><span title="De hade träffats vid München-OS fyra år tidigare.">They had met at the Munich Olympics four years earlier. </span><span title="Det var det första kungabröllopet sedan 1700-talet och mediepådraget var stort.">It was the first royal wedding since 1700, and the media blip was great. </span><span title="Bruden bar en renlinjig duchesseklänning, sydd av Dior.">The bride wore a gown sewn by Dior. </span><span title="Enligt kungens vilja skulle det vara ett så öppet bröllop som möjligt och inte bara själva vigseln i Storkyrkan utan också lunchen direktsändes i tv.
">According to the King it would be a wedding as open as possible
and not just the actual wedding ceremony in the Cathedral but also the
lunch was broadcasted live on television.<br /></span><span title="Den 33-åriga Silvia Sommerlath, som var född i en tysk företagarfamilj men vuxit upp i Brasilien hade 1957 flyttat hem till Tyskland och utbildat sig till tolk.">The
33-year-old Silvia Sommerlath, who was born in a German family of
entrepreneurs, but grew up in Brazil in 1957 had moved to Germany and was a
trained interpreter. </span><span title="Hon bodde i München och arbetade för den olympiska kommittén.">She lived in Munich and worked for the Olympic Committee. </span><span title="Nu lämnade hon ett normalt vardagsliv och gick in i ett liv som drottning med främsta uppgift att stödja sin man, statschefen.">Now, she left a normal life and went into a life as a Queen with the main task to support her husband, the head of state. </span><span title="Och att säkra tronarvingar.
">And to secure the heirs to the throne.</span><span title="Kung Carl Gustaf och Silvia i Storkyrkan den 19 juni 1976. Foto: Pressens bild
"><br /></span><b><span title="Alla föräldrar funderar på vad man för vidare till sina barn.">All parents are considering what to pass on to their children. </span><span title="Och kungaparet har fört vidare ett väldigt bestämt liv – privilegierat och upplevelserikt, men också mycket reglerat.">And the Royal Couple has brought forward a very determined life - privileged and rich experience, but also highly regulated. </span></b><span title="Vad tänker ni om det?
"><b>What do you think about that?</b><br /></span><span title="– Man vet ju inte riktigt vad som går in, säger drottningen lite svävande.
"><i>You do not know really what goes in</i>, the Queen says with a little suspense.<br /></span><b><span title="Ni visste att de skulle få leva påpassade liv som skulle hårdbevakas i medierna.">You knew that your children would be closely watched and they would be strictly monitored in the media. </span></b><span title="Har det hänt att ni stått och tittat på dem när de sovit och det huggit till i hjärtat och ni tänkt: ska de behöva ut i det här?
"><b>Has it happened that you stood and looked at them as they slept and
got stabbed in the heart and you thought: should they need to be out of this?</b><i><br /></i></span><span title="– Vi försökte ju vara lite mer skyddande när det gällde medier, säger kungen."><i>We did try to be a little more protective when it came to media,</i> said the King. </span><i><span title="Våra ungdomar har i dag en helt annan vana vid mediebruset, en annan relation.">Our young people today have a completely different accustomed to media noise, another relationship. </span></i><span title="Det har förändrats kolossalt.
"><i>It has changed enormously.</i><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Sju barn ställer frågor till kungaparet
">Seven children asking questions to the Royal Couple.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Sju barn ställer frågor till kungaparet
"></span><b><span title="Johan Grundberg, 6 år:
">Johan Grundberg, 6:</span></b><span title="Är det jobbigt att vara kung – det är ju så många tal och så?
"> Is it hard to be King - are there so many numbers and so on?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Är det jobbigt att vara kung – det är ju så många tal och så?
"></span><span title="Kungen: Ja."><b>King:</b> Yes. </span><span title="Det är alltid väldigt jobbigt att vara i fokus hela tiden.">It is always very hard to be in focus all the time. </span><span title="Enormt jobbigt.">Huge hassle. </span><span title="Men det är samtidigt mycket roligt.">But it is also very funny. </span><span title="Jag får lära mig mycket.
">I get to learn a lot.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Jag får lära mig mycket.
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Jag får lära mig mycket.
"></span><b><span title="Ester Örn, 8 år:
">Esther Eagle, 8:</span></b><span title="Vem är mäktigast av kungen och drottningen?
"> Who is the mightiest of the King and Queen?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vem är mäktigast av kungen och drottningen?
"></span><span title="Drottningen: Det vågar jag inte svara på.
"><b>Queen:</b> That I do not dare to answer.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Drottningen: Det vågar jag inte svara på.
"></span><span title="Kungen: Det vågar jag heller inte svara på!
"><b>King:</b> That I dare not to answer!</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kungen: Det vågar jag heller inte svara på!
"></span><span title="Nej, men det är kungen, rättar drottningen till.
">No, but it is the King, the Queen informs.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Nej, men det är kungen, rättar drottningen till.
"></span><span title="Enkat3
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat3
"></span><b><span title="Cecilia Sundberg, 7 år:
">Cecilia Sundberg, 7:</span></b><span title="Gör kungen och drottningen mat själva på morgonen?
"> Do the King and Queen cook themselves food in the morning?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Gör kungen och drottningen mat själva på morgonen?
"></span><span title="Kungen: Vi är båda intresserade och tycker det är roligt att laga mat, även frukost.
"><b>King:</b> We are both interested and think it's fun to cook, even breakfast.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kungen: Vi är båda intresserade och tycker det är roligt att laga mat, även frukost.
"></span><span title="Enkat4
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat4
"></span><b><span title="Ludvig Kroon, 7 år:
">Louis Kroon, 7:</span></b><span title="Hur många böcker om kungar har kungen?
"> How many books about Kings, does the King have?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hur många böcker om kungar har kungen?
"></span><span title="Kungen: Det var en svår fråga!"><b>King:</b> It's a difficult question! </span><span title="Men vi har Bernadottebiblioteket på Stockholms slott.">But we have the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace. </span><span title="Där finns böcker av kungar, om kungar och böcker som kungar samlat.
">There are books of Kings, for Kings and books gathered by Kings.</span><span title="Enkat5
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat5
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat5
"></span><b><span title="Matilda Persson, 7 år:
">Matilda Persson, 7:</span></b><span title="Kan drottningen virka?
"> Can the Queen crochet?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kan drottningen virka?
"></span><span title="Drottningen: Ja, det kan jag."><b>Queen: </b>Yes, I can. </span><span title="När jag var fyra år delade mamma på en virknål så att jag skulle kunna hålla i den.">When I was four years old mom shared on a crochet hook so that I could keep it. </span><span title="Sedan dess har jag kunnat virka.
">Since then I have been able to crochet.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Sedan dess har jag kunnat virka.
"></span><span title="Kungen: Jag kan slå en pålstek.
"><b>King:</b> I can beat a bowline.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kungen: Jag kan slå en pålstek.
"></span><span title="Enkat6
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat6
"></span><b><span title="Liana Kahsay, 8 år:
">Liana Kahsay, 8:</span></b><span title="Hur många pengar har kungen?
"> How many money does the King have?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hur många pengar har kungen?
"></span><span title="Kungen: Oj, det var en svår fråga."><b>King:</b> Oh, it's a difficult question. </span><span title="Det vet jag inte riktigt.">I do not know really. </span><span title="Det beror på hur man räknar.
">It depends on how you count.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det beror på hur man räknar.
"></span><span title="Enkat7
"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Enkat7
"></span><b><span title="Kian Dempsey-Malmqvist, 8 år:
">Kian Dempsey Malmqvist, 8:</span></b><span title="Vilket är ert favoritland som ni åkt till?
"> What is your favorite county that you went to?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Vilket är ert favoritland som ni åkt till?
"></span><span title="Kungen: Det vågar vi inte svara på!
"><b>King: </b>That we dare not to answer!</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kungen: Det vågar vi inte svara på!
"></span><span title="Drottningen: Vi säger Öland.
"><b>Queen:</b> We say Öland.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Drottningen: Vi säger Öland.
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Drottningen: Vi säger Öland.
"><br /></span><span title="– Ja, vi släppte in media vid vissa tillfällen, som vid jul eller påsk, säger drottningen."><i>Yes, we let the media at certain times, like at Christmas or Easter,</i> the Queen says. </span><i><span title="Medierna respekterade det och följde inte barnen när de exempelvis gick i skolan.">The media respected that and did not follow the children when they, for example, went to school. </span><span title="Så i vardagen var de ganska skyddade och kunde röra sig fritt, det var väldigt fint.">So everyday they were quite protected and could move freely, it was very nice. </span><span title="Men med sociala medier har ju det förändrats enormt.">But with social media, of course, it has changed enormously. </span><span title="Var och en har en Iphone, var och en är en paparazzi.">Everyone has an iPhone, everyone is a paparazzi. </span></i><span title="Nu är man påpassad hela tiden.
"><i>Now it heavily backed throughout.</i><br /></span><i><span title="– Men de kan ju också meddela sig med sina vänner på ett helt annat sätt med … ja, jag kan inte alla de här olika förkortningarna!">But they can of course also communicate with their friends in a totally
different way of ... well, I can't tell all these different acronyms! </span><span title="De lever ju så, det är inga konstigheter.">They live so, there is nothing strange. </span><span title="Jag tycker att det är jättekonstigt att hela tiden vara tillgänglig, både med röst och med bild.">I think it's really weird to always be available, both with voice and picture. </span></i><span title="För dem blir det naturligare att ha med sig sina barn i media, säger kungen.
"><i>For them it will be more natural to have their children with them in the media, </i>says the King.<br /></span><span title="Pratar ni om sånt vid era familjemiddagar?
"><b>Are you talking about things in your family dinners?</b><br /></span><span title="– Jag vill inte lägga mig i så mycket, säger kungen."><i>I do not want to put myself in the way as much, </i>says the King.<i> </i></span><i><span title="De har alltid gjort som de har velat.">They have always done as they wanted. </span></i><span title="De har starka viljor!
"><i>They have strong wills!</i><br /></span><i><span title="– Man vet inte heller vad som är bäst.">You do not know what is best. </span><span title="Jag vet att svenska folket älskar att se lilla Estelle.">I know the Swedish people love to see little Estelle. </span><span title="Och hon är ju bedårande och rolig och alert – och föräldrarna lägger ut bilder på henne.">And she's adorable and funny and alert - and her parents release pictures of her. </span><span title="Men de gör det alltid på ett skyddat sätt, alltid samma fotograf.">But they always do it in a protected manner, always the same photographer. </span><span title="Hon klarar det bra.">She can handle it well. </span><span title="Alla barn skulle kanske inte göra det, men hon gör det.">All children might not make it, but she does. </span></i><span title="Det där är så personligt.
"><i>That is so personal.</i><b><br /></b></span><span title="Har det farit genom kungaparets huvud att priset för det här livet har varit för högt?
"><b>Has it gone through the royal couple's head that the price of this life has been too high?</b><br /></span><span title="Båda är tysta en stund.
">Both are quiet for a while.<br /></span><span title="– När de fyllde 18 år, säger drottningen, ändrade sig plötsligt media och var mer på våra barn."><i>When they turned 18,</i> says the Queen,<i> the media suddenly changed and was more on our children. </i></span><span title="Då var det svårare att hantera det.
"><i>Then it was difficult to manage it.</i><br /></span><span title="Och bevakningen av barnbarnen just nu?
"><b>And coverage of your grandchildren now?</b><br /></span><span title="– Ja, säger drottningen och blir lite spänd i rösten, jag blir ledsen när jag ser hur media bevakar särskilt ett av våra barn.
"><i>Yes,</i> says the Queen and becomes a little tense in her voice,<i> I get
sad when I see how the media is monitoring everything especially our children.</i><br /></span><span title="– Men hon frågade ju om våra barnbarn!"><i>But she did ask you about our grandchildren!</i> </span><span title="säger kungen och låter lite brysk.">says the King and sounds a bit brusque. </span><i><span title="Var det inte så?">Was it not so? </span></i><span title="Våra egna är ju vuxna, de är inga barn.
"><i>Our own are adults, they are not children.</i><br /></span><span title="Jag fortsätter vända mig till drottningen och säger att man förstått att hon reagerat på behandlingen av prinsessan Madeleine.
">I continue to turn to the Queen and say that you understood that she reacted to the treatment of Princess Madeleine.<br /></span><i><span title="– Hon är en fantastisk och engagerad person.">She is a fantastic and dedicated person. </span><span title="Det visar man inte.">It shows you do not. </span></i><span title="Jag önskar att man skulle vara mer fair.
"><i>I wish it would be more fair.</i></span><span title="Drottningen
"><br /></span><span title="I tsunamitalet talade ju kungen om hur det var att växa upp faderlös.">In his tsunami speech, the King spoke about how it was to grow up fatherless. </span><span title="Kungen förlorade sin pappa innan han ens fyllt ett år.">The King lost his father before he was even a year old. </span><span title="Gör det att man får lättare att identifiera sig med barn som har det lite tufft?
"><b>Is it easier to identify with children who has it a little tough?</b><br /></span><span title="Kungen harklar sig.
">The King is clearing his throat.</span><i><span title="– Jag vet inte, jag tror inte det."> I don't know, I don't think so. </span><span title="Problemet är … inte problemet men … jag visste inget annat.">The problem is not the problem ... but ... I knew nothing else. </span><span title="Det är märkligt.">It is strange. </span><span title="På så sätt led man inte så mycket av det.">In this way i didn't suffer so much of it. </span><span title="Jag hade inte haft någon annan upplevelse.">I had not had any other experience. </span><span title="Jag förstod att det var något som saknades.">I understood that there was something missing. </span><span title="Kompisar hade någon manlig förälder, en pappa.">Friends had no male parent, a father. </span><span title="Man ställer om sig.">It resets itself. </span><span title="Visst finns det traumatiska händelser hos barn som upplevt förfärliga händelser.">Certainly there are traumatic events in children who have experienced terrible events. </span><span title="Men samtidigt är de ju väldigt starka.">But at the same time they are of course very strong. </span></i><span title="De flesta klarar ju av svåra situationer, bättre än de anar.
"><i>Most can handle the difficult situations, better than they anticipate.</i></span><span title="– Ta bara de ensamma flyktingbarn som kommer till Sverige i dag, fortsätter han, visst har de traumatiska händelser bakom sig, men de är ju väldigt tuffa och klarar sig."><i>Take only the unaccompanied refugee children who come to Sweden today,
</i>he continues, <i>the traumatic events behind them, but they are
very tough and can handle themselves. </i></span><i><span title="Inte alla, men många.">Not everyone, but many. </span><span title="Det kommer kanske att märkas på andra sätt senare i livet.">It will perhaps be felt in other ways later in life. </span><span title="Men det är trots allt märkligt hur starka de är.">But after all it is strange how strong they are. </span></i><span title="Det är en sorts instinkt, naturens gång.
"><i>It's a sort of instinct, of nature.</i><br /></span><span title="Kommer kungen ihåg någon speciell situation när han som barn kände sig extra sedd eller hjälpt av en vuxen?
"><b>Will the king remember any specific situation when as a child he felt extra seen or helped by an adult?</b><br /></span><span title="Han blir tyst.
">He becomes quiet.</span><i><span title="– Det måste jag fundera på."> I have to think about. </span><span title="Inte spontant.">Not spontaneously. </span></i><span title="Nej, det är svårt.
"><i>No, it is difficult.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Nej, det är svårt.
"><i> </i></span><span title="Just behovet av vuxna som ser är grundläggande i det arbete som stiftelsen Childhood, som drottningen startade 1999, bedriver."> </span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Just behovet av vuxna som ser är grundläggande i det arbete som stiftelsen Childhood, som drottningen startade 1999, bedriver."> </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Just behovet av vuxna som ser är grundläggande i det arbete som stiftelsen Childhood, som drottningen startade 1999, bedriver.">We need adults who see the essence of the work of the Childhood Foundation, which the Queen founded in 1999. </span><span title="De talar mycket om ”allas rätt till en barndom”.">They talk a lot about "everyone's right to a childhood." </span><span title="I projekt över hela världen försöker de förhindra att barn utsätts för övergrepp och exploatering.">In projects all over the world and try to prevent child abuse and exploitation. </span><span title="Inriktningen är gatubarn men också ”barn som befinner sig på resande fot (mellan olika städer och länder)”.
">The focus is the street children but also "children who are on the move (between different cities and countries)."<br /></span><b><span title="I dag befinner sig 30 miljoner barn på flykt.">Today there are 30 million refugee children. </span><span title="Under 2016 väntas 27.000 ensamkommande barn till Sverige.">In 2016, the expected 27,000 unaccompanied children arrived to Sweden. </span></b><span title="Finns det behov av att skruva upp ert fokus på dem just nu?
"><b>Is there a need to tighten up your focus on them right now?</b><br /></span><i><span title="– Ja, de är särskilt utsatta.">Yes, they are particularly vulnerable. </span><span title="I Tyskland stödjer Childhood just nu flera projekt för ensamkommande barn.">In Germany, Childhood supports now several projects for unaccompanied children. </span><span title="De har kanske förlorat sina föräldrar, i hemlandet eller under resans gång.">They may have lost their parents, at home or during the journey. </span><span title="De har mist allt: familjer, vänner, sina rötter.">They have lost everything: family, friends, their roots. </span><span title="Och så kommer de till en plats där de inte känner någon.">And so they come to a place where they do not know anyone. </span></i><span title="Vi utbildar vuxna som kan fungera som förebilder, som kan leda barnen.
"><i>We educate adults who can serve as role models, who can lead the children.</i></span><span title="”Vi utbildar vuxna som kan fungera som förebilder, som kan leda barnen”, säger drottningen om organisationen Childhoods insatser i Tyskland för ensamkommande flyktingbarn.
"><br /></span><span title="Ett par måsar seglar förbi.
">A couple of seagulls sail by.<br /></span><span title="Jag säger att jag förstått att flyktingkrisen engagerat hela kungafamiljen under året och att de besökt asylboenden och olika integrationsprojekt.
">I say that I understand that the refugee crisis involved the entire Royal Family during the year and they visited the asylum accommodation
and various integration projects.<br /></span><span title="– Det är ju inte bara vi som reser runt i världen, säger kungen."><i>It's not just us who travel around the world,</i> says the King. </span><i><span title="Många svenskar åker på semester, i alla möjliga världsdelar, och kommer kanske ännu närmare den här problematiken än vi gör.">Many Swedes go on holiday, in all possible parts of the world, and are perhaps even closer to this problem than we do. </span></i><span title="De måste ju rimligtvis också reagera och ta med sig minnen och bilder.
"><i>They have to also react reasonably and take with them memories and pictures.</i></span><span title="– Men vi har ett stort nätverk, fortsätter kungen, och möjlighet att få utlopp för de känslorna;"> <i>But we have a large network</i>, the King continues, <i>and the opportunity to vent those feelings; </i></span><i><span title="att starta något, att ta kontakt, att tala med folk, att lyfta frågor.">to start something, to contact, to talk to people, to raise questions. </span><span title="Det är den stora förmånen vi har genom vår position.">It is the great privilege we have by our position. </span><span title="Och den måste man ta.">And it has to be taken. </span><span title="Om vi inte skulle utnyttja den plattformen för att hjälpa andra, vore det ju nästan tjänstefel.">If we would not take advantage of the platform to help others, it would be the almost misconduct. </span><span title="Det är en fantastisk förmån.">It is a great privilege. </span></i><span title="Sånt kanske man inte riktigt förstod i början.
"><i>Such things may not quite understandable at first.</i><br /></span><span title="I livet som kung?
"><b>In life as king?</b><br /></span><i><span title="– Ja, i 30-årsåldern.">Yes, in the 30s. </span><span title="Man hade inte riktigt tid och ork att ta till sig det då.">They did not have time and energy to embrace it then. </span></i><span title="Men jag har också sett och lyssnat och hört på dig genom alla år – säger han och vänder sig till drottningen – och har blivit medveten om problematiken."><i>But
I have also seen and heard of you through the years -</i> he says
and turns to the Queen <i>- and have become aware of the problem. </i></span><i><span title="Nu är jag i en annan fas, det här är nästa utmaning.">Now I'm in a different phase, this is the next challenge. </span></i><span title="Det står ju inte still, drivkraften finns kvar.
"><i>As it is not still, the momentum is still there.</i></span><i><span title="Jag berättar att jag på radion hörde om hur Tärnaby välkomnat flyktingar som kom i höstas.">I tell you that I heard on the radio about how Tarnaby welcomed refugees who arrived last fall. </span><span title="I det lilla norrländska samhället finns det vintertid inte så mycket annat att göra än att åka skidor.">In the small northern community, there in the winter there is not so much else to do than to go skiing. </span></i><span title="Så med hjälp av lokala sponsorer lyckades man köpa in skidutrustningar och starta skidskola för alla nyanlända.
"><i>So with the help of local sponsors they managed to buy ski equipment and started a ski school for all new arrivals.</i><br /></span><span title="Kungen ser nöjd ut.
">The king looks pleased.</span><span title="Kungen
"><br /></span><span title="Är det viktigt att kungahuset under vissa historiska perioder markerar extra mycket närvaro – ungefär som danska kungahuset gjorde under kriget.
"><b>Is it important that the Royal Family during certain historical
periods, have the extra presence - much like the Danish Royal Family
did during the war?</b><br /></span><i><span title="– Ja, men det bara blir så.">Yes, but it just happens. </span></i><span title="Det är inte något uttänkt, säger drottningen."><i>It is not something we plan,</i> says Queen.<i> </i></span><span title="Situationen …
"><i>The situation ...</i><br /></span><span title="– … växer fram, fortsätter kungen."><i>... Is emerging,</i> continues the King. </span><i><span title="Man tänker alltid: vad kan vi göra?">You always think: what can we do? </span><span title="Det gäller inte bara flyktingboenden utan även i problemområden som Rosengård eller Angered.">It applies not only to the refugee accommodation but also in problem areas like Rosengård or Angered. </span><span title="De är inte sedda.">They are not seen. </span><span title="De känner sig förbigångna.">They feel fleeced. </span><span title="Att bli sedd och accepterad som individ, det är absolut det viktigaste.">To be seen and accepted as an individual, it is absolutely the most important. </span><span title="Vi kan komma på besök.">We can come to visit. </span><span title="Även om vi bara säger hej och god dag kan vi försöka förmedla en känsla.">Even if we just say hello and good day, we try to convey a feeling. </span></i><span title="Då känner de: Vi är inte bortglömda här.
"><i>Then they know: You are not forgotten here.</i><br /></span><span title="När jag sitter där på den lilla allmogestolen tänker jag att kungahuset är så mycket mer paradoxalt än skvallertidningarnas sockrade bild eller republikanernas betydligt saltare."></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="När jag sitter där på den lilla allmogestolen tänker jag att kungahuset är så mycket mer paradoxalt än skvallertidningarnas sockrade bild eller republikanernas betydligt saltare.">When
I sit there on the little rustic chair, I think that the Royal Family
is so much more paradoxical than the gossip papers sugary image or
Republican considerably saltier.</span><span title="Visst är tillvaron här innanför tujorna på många sätt vadderad.
"><br /></span><span title="Samtidigt: hur många ser så olika sidor av Sverige under ett år som de här två personerna på bänken?">At the same time, how many people see so many different sides of Sweden during a year that these two people on the bench? </span><span title="Visst, de besöker ofta uppfejade sjukhus, industrier och skolor och de har alltid nervösa kommunalråd och hovpersonal i släptåg men likväl: de är där och ser.
">Sure, they often visit hospitals, factories and schools and
they have always nervous councilor and staff in town but still:
they are there and look.</span><span title="Det är förmodligen betydligt mer än de som tycker att kungaparet lever i en bubbla gör.
"> It is probably far more than those who think that the Royal Couple live in a bubble do.<br /></span><span title="Hunden börjar tycka att det här är tråkigt och adjutanten släpper fram henne så att hon kan buffa med nosen mot kungens hand.
">The dog begins to think that this is boring and the adjutant unleashes
her so that she can buff with her nose against the King's hand.<br /></span><span title="Om kungaparet skulle möta flyktingbarn som precis kommit över Öresundsbron – vad skulle ni vilja skicka med dem på deras fortsatta resa genom Sverige?
"><b>If the Royal Couple could meet refugees who just come across the
Öresund bridge - what would you like to send them on their continuing
journey through Sweden?</b><br /><i><br /></i></span><span title="– Jag skulle ringa någon vän, ge dem namn och adress till någon som de kan lita på, säger kungen."><i>I would call a friend, give them the name and address of someone they can trust, </i>says the King. </span><i><span title="Jag har en del vänner som är mentorer.">I have some friends who are mentors. </span><span title="Det är inte lätt!">It's not easy! </span><span title="Vansinnigt svårt!">Insanely difficult! </span><span title="Här kommer en ung människa någonstans ifrån och så ska en äldre farbror försöka bli kompis!">Here is a young man from somewhere and then an elderly uncle try to be friends! </span><span title="Det tar tid innan de hittar ett sätt att umgås på.">It takes time before they find a way to socialize. </span><span title="Men jag har hört så många gånger: utan din hjälp, utan att du gått i god för mig, hade jag aldrig kunnat få jobbet eller ta lån.">But
I have heard so many times: without your help, I had never been able to get the job or a loan. </span></i><span title="Det är oerhört viktigt.
"><i>It is extremely important.</i></span><span title="– Jag skulle vilja att det fanns en organisation som stödjer familjer så att de kan ta emot ensamkommande flyktingbarn."> <i>I would like there to be an organization that supports families so that they can receive unaccompanied minors. </i></span><i><span title="De måste få utbildning och stöd från det sociala.">They must receive training and support from the social. </span></i><span title="Vi måste ge de här barnen nya hem.
"><i>We need to give these children new home.</i><br /></span><span title="Klarar Sverige utmaningen att ge dem den barndom som för kungaparet är så viktig?
"><b>Can Sweden take the challenge to give them the childhood that the Royal Couple think is so important?</b></span><span title="– Ja, vi måste klara det, säger kungen."><i>Yes, we must do it, </i>says the King. </span><i><span title="Det finns ingen annan väg.">There is no other way. </span><span title="Vi måste hjälpa dem som är i nöd.">We must help those who are in need. </span><span title="Man hjälper en människa som är i nöd.">It helps a person in need. </span></i><span title="Så är det bara.
"><i>Thats how it is.</i></span><span title="– Bara förra året kom 70.000 flyktingbarn och hälften är ensamkommande."> <i>Just last year, 70,000 refugee children arrived and half of them were unaccompanied. </i></span><i><span title="Det är oerhörda siffror.">There are tremendous numbers. </span><span title="Det är så många öden som måste tas hand om.">There are so many fates that must be taken care of. </span><span title="Jag tycker att man gör ett fantastiskt arbete, så många som vill hjälpa till.">I think they do a fantastic job, so many who want to help. </span></i><span title="Det är så positivt att det finns så många händer.
"><i>It is so positive that there are so many hands.</i><br /></span><span title="Solen står lägre och det är dags att avsluta.">The sun is lower and it is time to quit. </span><span title="Vi reser oss upp.">We stand up. </span><span title="Hunden ser förhoppningsfull ut.">The dog looks hopeful out. </span><span title="Informationschefen går igenom några detaljer inför kungaparets morgondag.">The Director goes through some details before the Royal Couple's engagements tomorrow. </span><span title="Innan vi säger adjö vänder drottningen på sin Iphone och visar en bild på Estelle på mobilskalet.
">Before we say goodbye, the Queen turns to us with her iPhone, and shows a picture of Estelle.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Innan vi säger adjö vänder drottningen på sin Iphone och visar en bild på Estelle på mobilskalet.
"><br /></span><span title="En kavat unge som skrattar mot kameran och än så länge lever ganska ovetande om kungaplikter och mediebevakning.
">A plucky kid laughing at the camera that so far lives quite unaware of the royal duties and media coverage.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En kavat unge som skrattar mot kameran och än så länge lever ganska ovetande om kungaplikter och mediebevakning.
"><br /></span>Then, the Royal Couple disappears into the palace.</span><br />
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<li><span>Text:</span> Åsa Beckman</li>
<li><span>Photo:</span> Paul Hansen</li>
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It was in 2014 when a 2-year-old Duchess Estelle made an official visit to Östergotland for the first time, and today the story repeats itself when Duchess Leonore visited Gotland for the first time.<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Besöket inleddes på hästgården Änge i Västerhejde där Prinsessan Leonore hälsade på gotlandsrusset Haidi af Gotland."> </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Besöket inleddes på hästgården Änge i Västerhejde där Prinsessan Leonore hälsade på gotlandsrusset Haidi af Gotland."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Besöket inleddes på hästgården Änge i Västerhejde där Prinsessan Leonore hälsade på gotlandsrusset Haidi af Gotland.">The visit began at the horse farm, specifically in the Västerhejde where Princess Leonore greeted Haidi of Gotland, </span><span title="Russet är en dopgåva från Länsstyrelsen och Region Gotland till Prinsessan.
">a christening gift from the County Administrative Board and Region of Gotland to the Princess.</span><span title="Gotlandsrusset är Sveriges äldsta inhemska hästras."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Gotlandsrusset är Sveriges äldsta inhemska hästras.">The foal is Sweden's oldest domestic breed. </span><span title="Ingen vet riktigt hur länge de funnits på Gotland men fynd visar att hästarna användes redan under järnåldern."> </span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ingen vet riktigt hur länge de funnits på Gotland men fynd visar att hästarna användes redan under järnåldern."></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ingen vet riktigt hur länge de funnits på Gotland men fynd visar att hästarna användes redan under järnåldern.">No one really knows how long they have been on Gotland, but the findings indicate that horses were used during the Iron Age. </span><span title="Fram till 1800-talets mitt fanns det gott om skogsruss över hela Gotland.">Until the mid-1800s there were plenty of forest ponies across the island. </span><span title="Därefter minskade antalet dramatiskt och i början av 1900-talet var de nära att helt försvinna.">Subsequently, the number lowered dramatically in the early 1900s, they almost completely disappear. </span><span title="För att rädda de sista russen hägnade bönderna från trakten och Gotlands hushållningssällskap in ett område på Lojsta hedlänk till annan webbplats, öppnas i nytt fönster.
">To save the last ponies farmed farmers from the region and Gotland
Agricultural Society in an area of Lojsta.</span><span title="Foto: Pelle T Nilsson/Stella Pictures
"><br /></span><span title="Därefter var det lunch i trädgården på residenset i Visby.
">Then, Princess Leonore and her parents had lunch in the garden at the residence in Visby.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Därefter var det lunch i trädgården på residenset i Visby.
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Efter lunchen möttes Prinsessparet och Prinsessan Leonore av barn från Slottsparkens förskola som sjöng den gotländska visan ”Summarn kummar”.">After the
lunch, the Princess Couple and Princess Leonore met children from the
Royal Park's kindergarten who sang the song "Summarn kummar". </span><span title="Foto: Kungahuset.se
"><br /></span><span title="Dagen avslutades på Gotlands Museum där Prinsessparet och Prinsessan Leonore besökte utställningen Skepp & Skojlänk till annan webbplats, öppnas i nytt fönster.">The
day ended at the Gotland Museum where Prinsessparet and Princess
Leonore visited the exhibition Ship & Fun. </span><span title="Skepp & Skoj är museets nya barnutställning och den handlar om hav och sjöfart på Gotland genom tiderna.
">Ship & fun is the museum's new children's show and it's about the sea.</span></span><br />
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<li><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Skepp & Skoj är museets nya barnutställning och den handlar om hav och sjöfart på Gotland genom tiderna.
">More photos <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/princess-leonore-of-sweden-visits-gotland?excludenudity=false&family=editorial&page=1&phrase=Princess%20Leonore%20Of%20Sweden%20Visits%20Gotland&sort=newest#license" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="http://www.helagotland.se/familj/alla-bilder-fran-prinsessan-leonores-besok-12686581.aspx" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="http://www.helagotland.se/familj/bildextra-rymningsbenagen-prinsessa-kom-till-gotland-12686427.aspx" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="http://www.svenskdam.se/2016/06/darifran-kommer-leonores-klanningar/" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="http://www.svenskdam.se/2016/06/vi-vet-mer-om-leonores-barnflicka/" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="http://mx.hola.com/realeza/casa_suecia/2016060386232/leonore-suecia-debut-oficial/" target="_blank">6</a>, 7, 8</span></span></li>
<li><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Skepp & Skoj är museets nya barnutställning och den handlar om hav och sjöfart på Gotland genom tiderna.
">Videos <a href="http://www.helagotland.se/webb-tv/?clip=12686590" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/prinsessan-madeleine-haidi-har-mer-talamod-an-leonore" target="_blank">2</a>, 3</span></span></li>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Skepp & Skoj är museets nya barnutställning och den handlar om hav och sjöfart på Gotland genom tiderna.
">To be updated through the day. </span><span title="Om hertigdömet Gotland
"></span></span>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-31399955907852402322016-05-20T09:26:00.002-07:002016-05-20T09:26:57.969-07:00Opening of the Princess Ingrid Alexandra sculpture park.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Barnas egen skulpturpark
">The</span><span title="I dag ble Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandras Skulpturpark åpnet."> Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park opened on 19 May. </span><span title="Hennes Kongelige Høyhet Prinsessen sto selv for avdukingen, og tusen små og store gjester var på plass i Slottsparken
">Princess Ingrid Alexandra stood at the unveiling of the sculptures and hundreds of small and big guests were in place in the Palace Park</span><span title="19.05.2016
"></span><span title="Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandras Skulpturpark er en park av barn – for barn.">. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandras Skulpturpark er en park av barn – for barn.">The Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park is a park from children - for children. </span><span title="Den etableres i anledning Kongeparets 25-årsjubileum, og både Kongeparet, Kronprinsparet, Prins Sverre Magnus og Prinsesse Astrid, fru Ferner, var til stede sammen med Prinsessen ved åpningen.
">It is established on the occasion of the King and Queen's 25th jubilee, and both the King and Queen, Crown Prince Couple, Prince Sverre Magnus
and Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, were present along with Princess Ingrid Alexandra at the
opening.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Den etableres i anledning Kongeparets 25-årsjubileum, og både Kongeparet, Kronprinsparet, Prins Sverre Magnus og Prinsesse Astrid, fru Ferner, var til stede sammen med Prinsessen ved åpningen.
"></span><span title="Hans Majestet Kong Harald holdt åpningstale og ønsket alle barna velkommen.
">His Majesty King Harald gave the opening speech and wished all children a warm welcome.</span><span title="- Denne dagen har vi i Kongefamilien gledet oss til."> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="- Denne dagen har vi i Kongefamilien gledet oss til.">This day is a day we in Royal Family have looked forward to. </span><span title="I mange år har vi ønsket oss en skulpturpark spesielt for barn.">For many years we wanted a sculpture park especially for children. </span><span title="Og endelig står den klar, foreløpig med tre skulpturer.">And finally it stands ready, initially with three sculptures. </span><span title="To av dem er helt nye, den tredje har stått på Akershus festning.">Two of them are brand new, the third stood at Akershus Fortress. </span><span title="Etter hvert skal det bli flere.
">Eventually, there will be more.</span><span title="- De er her for dere, de er til å ta på, og ikke bare til pynt.
"> They are here for you, they are to take on, and not just for decoration.</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="- De er her for dere, de er til å ta på, og ikke bare til pynt.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="- De er her for dere, de er til å ta på, og ikke bare til pynt.
"><br /></span><span title="Og barna tok Kong Harald på ordet - det tok ikke lang tid fra avdukingen til skulpturene var i bruk.
">And the kids took King Harald's words - it did not take long from the unveiling of the sculptures when they were already in use.</span><span title="Skulpturene er de første fra en landsomfattende konkurranse som vil gå over flere år og resultere i totalt 10 skulpturer.">The sculptures are the first of a nationwide contest that will run for several years and result in a total of 10 sculptures. </span><span title="Skulpturparken er en gave fra Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.
">Sculpture park is a gift from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.</span><span title="Geometrisk rev og Kanin i trøbbel
"></span><span title="De to nye skulpturene som ble avduket i dag, er Geometrisk rev og Kanin i trøbbel laget av Sofie Sollid Gjertsen, Setermoen skole og Emma Hansen, Ballangen skole.">The
two new sculptures that were unveiled, a Geometric fox and rabbit
in trouble created by Sofie Sollid Gjertsen, from Setermoen school and Emma
Hansen, from Ballangen School. </span><span title="Deres to bidrag ble valgt ut blant flere hundre bidrag fra Nord-Norge.">Their two contributions were selected from hundreds of contributions from northern Norway. </span><span title="Det er barna som har tegnet, mens håndverkere har bygget selve skulpturene.
">The kids make the characters, while craftsmen have built the sculptures.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det er barna som har tegnet, mens håndverkere har bygget selve skulpturene.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Det er barna som har tegnet, mens håndverkere har bygget selve skulpturene.
"></span><span title="I tillegg til de to, er «Putemann» av Jonas Gjerstad, Martin Danning og Mathias Svendsen fra Sagdalen skole lånt ut fra skulpturstien på Akershus festning.
">In addition to the two, "Pillow Man" by Jonas Gjerstad, Martin
Formation and Mathias Svendsen from Sagdalen skole was borrowed from
the sculpture trail at Akershus Fortress.</span><span title="Boller og saft
"></span><span title="Omkring 900 barnehagebarn var gjester ved arrangementet i dag.">Approximately 900 kindergarten children were guests at the event. </span><span title="Sammen med sine voksne ledsagere, fikk de servert boller og saft av Hoffets ansatte.">Together with their adult companions, they were served bowls and juice of Akiko's employees. </span><span title="2500 boller og 400 liter saft gikk med.
">2500 bowls and 400 liters of sap went with.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Hans Majestet Kongens Garde spilte for store og små, og ledet an i «Norge i rødt, hvitt og blått», som barnehagebarna hadde øvd på for anledningen."></span></span></span></span>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-79427242615066420752016-05-04T13:12:00.002-07:002016-05-04T13:12:40.489-07:00New patronage for Crown Prince Frederik.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Kronprinsen har sagt ja til at blive protektor for den nye forening DenmarkBridge, som har til formål at sikre danske virksomheder og iværksættere bedre adgang til viden, netværk og kapital i Silicon Valley, USA.
">The Crown Prince has agreed to become patron of the new association
Denmark Bridge, which aims to ensure Danish companies and entrepreneurs
better access to knowledge, networking and capital in Silicon Valley,
USA.</span><span title="Silicon Valley i Californien, USA, betegnes som et epicenter for udvikling af nye teknologier og vækstorienterede forretningsmodeller."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Silicon Valley i Californien, USA, betegnes som et epicenter for udvikling af nye teknologier og vækstorienterede forretningsmodeller.">Silicon
Valley in California, USA, is described as an epicenter for the
development of new technologies and growth-oriented business models. </span><span title="Foreningen DenmarkBridge vil derfor styrke broen mellem dansk erhvervsliv og udviklingen i Silicon Valley, så Danmark kan være med til at præge denne udvikling på især IT-området.
">The association Denmark Bridge will therefore strengthen the bridge
between the Danish business and development in Silicon Valley, so that
Denmark can help to shape this development, especially on IT.</span><span title="Foreningen tilbyder medlemskab til alle danske virksomheder og organisationer."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Foreningen tilbyder medlemskab til alle danske virksomheder og organisationer.">The association offers membership to all Danish companies and organizations. </span><span title="Foreningen etableres af A.P.">The association is established by A. P. </span><span title="Møller – Mærsk, Danske Bank, DI, LEGO, og Vækstfonden i samarbejde med Erhvervs- og Vækstministeriet, Udenrigsministeriet og Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet.
">Moller - Maersk, the Danish Bank, DI, LEGO and Growth Fund in
collaboration with the Business and Growth Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and of Education and Research Ministry.</span><span title="DenmarkBridge er en del af regeringens seneste vækstpakke og skal skabe grobund for strategisk netværk og videndeling på højeste niveau og dermed understøtte danske virksomheder og iværksætteres adgang til viden og kapital i Silicon Valley.
"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="DenmarkBridge er en del af regeringens seneste vækstpakke og skal skabe grobund for strategisk netværk og videndeling på højeste niveau og dermed understøtte danske virksomheder og iværksætteres adgang til viden og kapital i Silicon Valley.
">Denmark Bridge is part of the government's recent stimulus package and
will prepare the ground for strategic networking and knowledge sharing
at the highest level and thereby support Danish companies and
entrepreneurs' access to knowledge and capital in Silicon Valley.</span><span title="DenmarkBridge vil samle en række danske virksomheder med interesse for teknologiudviklingen og de muligheder, det giver for virksomheders forretningsudvikling og vækst."> </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="DenmarkBridge vil samle en række danske virksomheder med interesse for teknologiudviklingen og de muligheder, det giver for virksomheders forretningsudvikling og vækst."></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="DenmarkBridge vil samle en række danske virksomheder med interesse for teknologiudviklingen og de muligheder, det giver for virksomheders forretningsudvikling og vækst.">Denmark
Bridge will bring together a number of Danish companies interested in
the technology development and the opportunities it offers for
companies' business development and growth. </span><span title="Konkret vil DenmarkBridge afvikle forskellige typer af aktiviteter på begge sider af Atlanten, der giver medlemmerne mulighed for at nytænke forretningsmodeller, sammentænke værdikæder og udnytte forretningskritisk teknologi med ligesindede på den anden side af Atlanten.
">Specifically, Denmark Bridge phase out certain types of activities on
both sides of the Atlantic, which allows members to rethink business
models, along thinking value chains and take advantage of business
critical technology with like-minded people on the other side of the
Atlantic.</span><span title="Foreningen er åben for alle virksomheder, organisationer og enkeltpersoner."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Foreningen er åben for alle virksomheder, organisationer og enkeltpersoner.">The association is open to all companies, organizations and individuals.</span></span>Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-15102255224138406482016-05-02T08:18:00.001-07:002016-05-02T08:18:35.942-07:00Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit lay the foundation stone for the new National Museum.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The foundation stone of the new National Museum was laid today. Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit attended together the ceremony. The ceremony took place at the triangle plot by Western Railway in Oslo, where the National Museum is expected to be completed in 2019, opening the following year.<br />
Together, the Queen and Crown Princess let foundation stone casket. The coffer contains a Coat of arms of Norway, drawings of the building, construction documents, a årssett of coins, a årssett of stamps, invitation and guest list for the foundation laying ceremony. With the casket in a sack, performance artist Tori Wrånes was hoisted up by a crane and transported over the construction site where the stone would be laid down. Live music and a salute from boats at the docks gave a masterful setting for the event.<br />
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The new National Museum was designed by the German architect Klaus Schuwerk. On the site there are at least 800 people working on the building, and the area is over 54,000 square meters. The total exhibition area will be 13,000 square meters, the equivalent of two football fields.<br />
The new National Museum will be a continuation of the National Museum, established as Norway's first public art museum by the Parliament in 1837. Later, this, along with the Museum of Decorative Arts, Museum of Architecture, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, merged into National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo in 2003.<br />
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Statsbygg is responsible for the construction of the new museum. An estimated 750,000 visitors will stop by each year.<br />
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Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-89743477133449444222016-05-02T08:09:00.003-07:002016-05-02T08:09:20.997-07:00Literature train 2016.For the third year in a row, Crown Princess Mette-Marit is out on the literature train with good writers and books on board. This year's theme is 'Outside cabinet'. Literature Train 2016 runs along the Bergen Line. In 2014 it went from Bodo to Stjørdal, and in 2015 it also stopped on Dovrebanen.<br />
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Litteraturhuset in Bergen is the venue for the first event on 1 June, the night before the departure. The train arrives to Oslo on June 3, where there will be a closing event at the House of Literature there. The literature train has one purpose: to inspire the love of reading. There is a book for everyone!<br />
On the trip from Bergen to Oslo the Literature train will stop at Voss, Gol and Hønefoss, before the last event at the House of Literature in Oslo.<br />
At each stop there will be activities in the form of discussions with authors and readings from the books at the local library. The authors participating are: Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Bergen), Agnes Ravatn (Voss), Lars Saabye Christensen (Hønefoss) and Geir Gulliksen (Oslo). There will also be meeting with biographer Kim Friele in Gol.<br />
There is also the opportunity to visit a library wagon on the train. It is equipped in cooperation with the Oslo Public Library, where one can enjoy themselves and get acquainted with new books and authors. Many of the Crown Princess's own favorite books will also be found aboard Kong carriage.Daniela S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04238506580244615913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-831377518579072212.post-37307228513843644562016-05-01T09:50:00.000-07:002016-05-01T09:55:52.942-07:00King Carl XVI Gustaf's 70th Birthday.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On 30 April, King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrated his 70th Birthday, the festivities started with a Te Deum at the Royal Chapel in Stockholm.<br />
Among foreign royal guests were King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, Princess Takamado of Japan, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Prince Albert II.<br />
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All the Swedish Royal Family attended the ceremony, including Princess Estelle.<br />
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After the TeDeum, all the royal guests were joined by Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Princess Märtha-Louise of Norway and husband Ari Behn for the Armed Forces celebration for the King at the Palace's Courtyard.<br />
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When the Armed Forces and changing of the guard ended, everyone headed to the Palace's balcony where a chorus sang to King Carl Gustaf. This time the family was joined by almost 2-month-old Prince Oscar, who was making his balcony debut.<br />
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To finish with the day celebrations, the city of Stockholm offered a lunch for everyone at the City Hall. The King and Queen arrived by carriage. Princess Sofia didn't attend the lunch as she returned home to be with Prince Alexander.<br />
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In the afternoon, a banquet was held for all the guests.<br />
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