Perhaps it's time to start going through the daily royal engagements again:
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On May 16 King Harald received Li Zhanshu, Chinese chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), at the Royal Palace:
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Well, we have finally got our relationship with China back on track (yes, they got angry with us after Liu Xiaobo was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize of 2010). And The Prime Minister cosies up to them like no-one before her, which is actually starting to make us look ridiculous. Because, as politicians/commentators from both sides of the political spectrum here have said/written, we're not dependent on China buying our salmon!
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This year's season started for the King's Ship Norge. King Harald embarked on the ship today, inspects the ship at the beginning of the season.
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When being asked about his daughter's new boyfriend, he answered he hadn't met him yet but that he found it nice that she had a new boyfriend.
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Today, May 21, King Harald handed out the Abel Prize 2019 to Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck. A dinner for the Abel Prize will follow this evening:
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People on social media have been pretty critical of how journalists have literally hunted down this elderly man to ask him about Märtha. Yes, on Tuesday, an NRK-reporter was just a meter away from HM when the latter was about to get into his state-car, A2.
But despite all of this (which must be difficult for him), our utterly amazing monarch is just getting on with it.
About The Abel Prize: Established by the Norwegian government in 2002 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel's birth (read about him in the two below English links). The Prize, which has been handed out every year since 2003, recognises contributions to the field of mathematics that are of extraordinary depth and influence - and carries a cash award of 6 million NOK.
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This year's laureate: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (
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''For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.''
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And yet, the shaman said in the interview on television that he had already met the King and Queen ... This guy is full of lies (the shaman .. not the King ..).
The King spoke to the media on May 14th, while the shaman guy and Märtha said on May 16th that he had met them the day before (on the 15th), so he was actually speaking the truth here. ??
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Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 67th Bergen International Festival today, May 22, a rainy start..
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Today, May 23, Queen Sonja attended the opening of the 2019 Bergen International Festival Exhibition:
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HM is looking great, almost 82-years-young.
And although it can't be easy for her with all this craziness going on, she's still out doing her duty!
About Bergen International Festival: Annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen (Norway's second-most populated city and municipality) that started in 1953, and which is the largest one in its genre within the Nordic countries.
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