Last Friday, Europe’s high nobility celebrated the 18th birthday of Norway’s hereditary princess Ingrid Alexandra. Almost five months after the actual birthday of Crown Prince Haakon’s daughter, the postponed gala dinner for the coming of age of the future Queen of Norway took place on Friday evening in the Royal Palace in Oslo.
199 invited guests appeared at the gala dinner; among them the Dutch royal couple Willem-Alexander and Maxima, Spain’s monarch Felipe VI. and the Danish crown prince couple Frederik and Mary. Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel also brought their children Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar with them. Only the British royals were missing.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra wears a tiara for the first time
Princess Ingrid Alexandra appeared in a deep purple Alberta Ferretti flounce dress that once belonged to her mother Mette-Marit and which she wore to a visit by the Japanese Imperial Couple to Norway in 2005. King Harald ushered the princess into the dining room of Oslo Palace. To celebrate the day, the Hereditary Princess wore a tiara inherited from her great-great-grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden. It was her tiara debut.
Second diadem debut
For Princess Amalia of the Netherlands, it was the first official trip as Crown Princess. As for the Norwegian Hereditary Princess, it was also a tiara debut for Amalia. And she has been looking forward to that for a long time, as she said in a book for her 18th birthday last year. Even as a child, she often played with her mother’s jewels and tried on a tiara. She was a big fan, she admitted to the book author. “Show me a diadem and I’ll know where it came from. I can recognize all the diadems of Europe.”
Even before the gala dinner, there was a historic moment. Four future queens of Europe posed together for a photo in their gowns: Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, Princess Estelle of Sweden, Princess Amalia of the Netherlands and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium.
Source: Stern
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