Almost five months after the actual birthday of the daughter of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit (both 48), the gala dinner for the coming of age of the future Queen of Norway, which had been postponed due to the pandemic, was made up for on Friday evening in the Royal Palace in Oslo. Also present: almost 200 invited guests.
Ingrid Alexandra is second in line to the throne of Norway, making her the first woman to ascend the throne in the country. She had already come of age on January 21st. Larger celebrations had to be postponed at the time due to the corona pandemic.
Numerous royals honored Ingrid Alexandra, including the Dutch royal couple Willem-Alexander (55) and Maxima (51), Spain’s monarch Felipe VI. (54) and the Danish crown prince couple Frederik (54) and Mary (50). Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria (44) and her husband Prince Daniel (48) brought their children Princess Estelle (10) and Prince Oscar (6) with them. The British, on the other hand, were absent.
Ingrid Alexandra wore a diamond and pearl headdress that had once belonged to her great-great-grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden. She wore a violet dress that her mother Mette-Marit had already worn in 2005 when the Japanese imperial couple visited Norway.
Despite the obvious excitement, the princess mastered her speech. She thanked her parents and siblings – her mother, among other things, for being able to lie on the couch together and watch series like “Sex and the City”. Grandfather King Harald V. (85) was thanked for always having a joke up his sleeve when the mood was bad. She ended her speech with a solemn “Skål!” to loud applause. – Cheers!
Source: Nachrichten
