Having spent several days, thanks to VPN, watching Norwegian TV’s NRK TV coverage of the passing of King Harald V and his funeral, it was really moving to have watched his funeral. This reception of royals paying their respects to the grieving Norwegian royals proved rather telling.
First at court was HSH Prince Albert & Charlene of the Monegasque principality. Their interaction was adroit and fairly brief.
Next up, the august HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with his always reserved wife, HM Queen Silvia. The Swedish king is now the oldest reigning monarch in Europe. Queen Silvia’s pillbox hat was, of course, reminiscent of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis chic all nicely pulled off with a single strand pearl necklace.
They were then followed by Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his American Greek born wife, Crown Princess Katharine of Serbia. As they are minor royals on the periphery of royal society, they grinned and bow and seemed rather thrilled to have been invited.
They were then followed by the heir of Liechtenstein Alois and his statuesque wife. They were deferential and reserved. Hereditary Prince Alois and his wife Hereditary Princess Sofie, Duchess of Bavaria were brief in their encounter with the three senior Norwegian royals.
They were followed by Japanese Crown Prince Akishino and his delicate, serene wife, Crown Princess Kiko who performed the deepest curtsey.
I was truly stunned at how obese the new Grand Duke Guillaume V of Luxembourg has become. Of course, when recently his father Henri stepped aside in his favour, his two sons appeared for all the world to be very decidedly on the spectrum. Prince Louis was a boisterous child with 5 energy body, these boys were observed sat with legs gathered beneath themselves and parents looking as though they could not wait to return them to their nannies. As ever, they were socially awkward and not the post polished of souls. No wonder, indeed, that the couple were dismissed Queen Mette-Marit with new lungs as absolute bores to Jeffrey Epstein. Henri, Guillaume’s father, and former Grand Duke proved himself a truly suave elder statesman, reaching in and warmly hugging the new King Haakon. Their interaction was both genuine and warm.
Whist Henri rambled on with Haakon the attendant Greek and Danish royals waited, only to have the supremely handsome Queen Anne-Marie of Greece & Denmark, widow of King Constantine II of Greece sneak behind Haakon to warmly greet her lifelong peer, Dowager Queen Sonja. Her movement was both delightful and betrayed her need to console and be of comfort to the new widow as quickly as possible.
Next, Tord Magnuson partner of Danish Princess Maria-Christina steps up to salute King Haakon. However, before Maria-Christina steps up the continent’s most handsome Prince, Danish Prince Carl-Philp steps up and warmly greets Haakon, betraying the closeness of the Nordic royals. After their long chat, next it was Danish Princess Maria-Christina who greeted Haakon, it was next Princess Alexia of Greece, Crown Prince Pavlos’s sister. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece – the Duty Free Princess – was not present. Alexia performed a deep curtsey to both King Haakon and Dowager Queen Sonja.
She was followed thereafter by Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece who has truly graciously aligned numerology and he certainly acted the part at his father, King Constantine II of Greece’s funeral. The Greek royals were rounded off by Prince Nikolaos who recently changed wives with shrewd callousness; he has the look of a class 1 womaniser so not surprising. If I’m honest, I am certain if the next couple up are Prince Kyril of Preslav and Princess Rosario of Bulgaria. Kyril has, not surprisingly, populated the Epstein Files.
As he is a genuine old soul and such persons do not have time for negative persons and their malicious BS, King Frederik X simply laughs off Prince William and his vicious-looking aunt, Princess Anne, King Haakon VIII’s godmother.
There was a lot of tongue wagging and vicious enjoyed by Frederik X’s wife, Queen Mary of Denmark who like Catherine, William’s wife, is a fifth mature warrior. Fifth mature souls live for gossip and stirring the pod, so naturally she would be all ears for the Windsor gossip which most other royals on the continent have now grown bored of and dismissed the senior royals as the racists they are. Of course, Princess Anne, a 7th mature warrior looks way too much like that vile racist crossdressing man who reeks of male smegma from here to Timbuktu.
Glad to be rid of the smallminded BS, Frederik goes over warmly hugs his jogging buddy, Haakon VIII and consoles him, both men making warm eye contact and genuinely appreciative of the other’s companionship. Laughing Anne off, Frederik X was clearly happy to be rid of her and William over compensatory prosecution of their vindictive case against Harry & Meghan. Honest to god, it’s a fucking funeral and the world can see what racist boors you’ve been to Harry and his Black wife. Imagine showing up at a funeral to gossip about persons whom you’ve treated like absolute shit all with the help; of your Mafioso henchmen on Fleet Street.
Abandoning them, Frederik X takes a breather and it is obvious that Haakon could quite imagine what vile snakes the Windsor equestrian with a string of male lovers partout and the baron’s bastard were on about. Meanwhile, Queen Mary who is adept at Nordic court life moves on from the putrid royals to go have genuine rapport with King Haakon.
Up next was Princess Anne, Haakon’s godmother and of course, she talks to excess to cover the gossiping mealymouthed BS she and William engaged with Queen Mary and Frederik X who dismissively laughed them off and walked away from their damn mess – Prince Andrew’s association with Epstein and their racist campaign against Harry & his Black wife. I can just imagine how William winced when the gospel choir began singing at Harald V’s funeral which was a special request of his.
Overlong, Princess Anne carried on with her prosecution of the Windsor’s case before the continental royals and the onlooking world. Clearly, they know that decent people the world over see them for what they are, and it is not especially flattering. As if she hadn’t sufficiently held up the line along comes William more gesticulation as his guilty conscience prosecuted their version of reality.
Both the Norwegian Queen and crown princess Ingrid Alexander fawned engagement and are condescending in dealing with both Anne and William. They are a family who’ve proven more welcoming of a Black marrying, in the case of Shaman Durek marrying the King’s older sister, princess Martha Louise.
Though Norwegian media took the stance, much as Fleet Street has, of being suspicious and racially predatory towards Martha-Louise’s second husband, Durek Verrett it was the late King Harald V who called out the media and made it perfectly clear that he would not tolerate his Black son-in–law being subjected to racialised harassment in the media. Understandably, the Norwegian royals were not interested to seeing the racially predatory Britons turning up at court being mealymouthed. There is positively no way that Anne and William would have been gossiping about Prince Andrew; their smallminded chatter would without doubt have been focussed on Harry & Meghan.
Just look at Crown Princess Ingrid-Alexandra’s body language, the lowered chin, the condescending wary look with the whites of the eyes below the iris visible at both Anne and William. Ingrid-Alexandra places her hand on her chest, protecting her heart centre whilst simultaneously not extending them a welcome by touching and embracing either. Her approach to both is formal with no trace of either empathy or trust.
How daft do the Windsors have to be, the Glücksburg dynasty has a history of marital tensions, which was thankfully resolved by the time that Shaman Durek came along. Harald V’s father, Olav V. Olav, of course, was the maternal grandson of HM King Edward VII. Olav did not approve, in the Saxe-Gotha-Coburg tradition, Harald V’s choice of a fiancée, Sonja was stridently opposed because she was a commoner. Nonetheless, Harald persevered against his father, Olav V’s wishes and took Sonja as his wife. In time, Harald V’s second born, Haakon was initially opposed to take divorced mother as his bride; however, Harald V knowing of his own history with his father, gave his blessing to the marriage. Nothing surprisingly then, after his firstborn, Princess Martha-Louise’s husband Ari Behn committed suicide and she found solace with shaman Durek, Harald V was fully, without reservations fully supportive of his daughter and her choice of life partner, Durek. After all, with Ari Behn’s suicide, King Harald V would clearly wish for his daughter, Martha-Louise’s happiness above all else. This is precisely why he strongly instructed the Norwegian press to cease with its racist dog whistle reporting of shaman Durek.
Not surprisingly, King Harald V would elect to have a Black gospel song, sung at his funeral. This would not have gone unnoticed by Anne and William. Indeed, it could well have been a parting shot of Harald V at the Windsors’ embarrassing racism towards Harry and Meghan. This also goes to show that Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III could have, at any point, openly issued an official statement about the British media’s relentless open racism towards Harry and Meghan, yet they have done no such thing.
Next up, the Belgian King Philippe – with the sexiest royal nose – and Queen Mathilde in a beautiful hat and lovely multiple strand pearls. Not surprisingly, the Belgian King gestures to King Haakon warily as though the disgraced Windsor party was both tiresome and unwelcome. Mathilde, as ever, was most gracious and her brooch was rather lovely. Haakon was clearly only too relieved to embrace the Belgian King and his lovely wife. Notice, too, how King Philippe hung back and waited for Queen Mathilde to finish conversing with crown princess Ingrid-Alexandra rather than advancing ahead and having to interact with the royal boors from the island kingdom.
Next up, the gathering gets really warm and genuine. The Dutch prince Constantijn, preceded by his wife Laurentien. They were known and their reception congenial. They were followed by the big warm embrace of King Willem-Alexander for his good friend King Haakon VIII. Their interaction was companiable, relaxed and respectful. Both men rests their right hand on the others arm/shoulder and are in agreement and support for the other. Along then comes my favourite royal, Queen Maxima. She is incredibly well-educated, confident, professional and has the sexiest walk going in any royal court. Just look at her walk down the aisle on entering Westminster Abbey at William and Catherine’s beautiful wedding on April 29, 2011, Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild’s 75th birthday. She chats up Haakon and after having witnessed William and Anne yapping to excess, with a dismissive hand wave, Maxima slapped aside the malodourous presence of William and Anne at court.
Never once was crown princess Ingrid Alexandra recoiling by holding her hand on her heart with King Willem-Alexander. The most beautiful discovery of this gathering of royals at the Norwegian court was crown princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange. Poised, genuine and possessed of her mother Queen Maxima’s forthrightness, she was a refreshing discovery.
Now look at the interaction of two future Queens; both emotionally intelligent, plus warm and open towards each other – the mutual respect is admirable. They have far more important things to discuss and far more in common than to be focussed on trifling psychodrama consuming the House of Windsor. Why would the two princesses not be so keenly and genuinely engaged with each other.
Both princesses remain holding the other by the upper arm whilst caressing their loving warmth via a thumb massage; all the while, their heads are tilted to the one side whilst looking directly, lovingly into the other’s soul, filling each other up and displaying their trust in each other. After crown princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange came the diminutive princess Beatrix who abdicated in favour of her son, King Willem-Alexander. These northern European royals are all fairly close and it showed in their warm relaxed interactions.
As though ridding her aura of the stench that was Anne and William and their seedy gossip, Swedish crown princess Victoria, brushed her face before warmly stepping up and giving her beloved Haakon VIII a warm hug, kisses on both cheeks and with a raised chin looked into Haakon’s very soul buoying up his spirits. Then along come Prince Daniel, Victoria’s husband, whom I suspect is an older soul, forthrightly reaching in, gives Haakon a big warm hug, looks into him and grabbing him both both upper arms, shakes and grounds him with sound advice which no other royal, save perhaps Frederik X could have. It was obvious that on Daniel’s persistent, Haakon became grounded and reassured of the Swedish prince’s unwavering support. There is no way that William could have done this, which is all the more reason why their talking to excess and being mealymouthed was totally uncalled for. Prince Daniel then moved on and also gave a bear hug to Queen Sonja.
Moving along, Ingrid Alexandra also gets a hug from Daniel. In each instance, he reaches up his right arm inviting his subject to partake in a bear hug. This is another reason why I suspect that he is an older soul. He is like a centuries old Sitka, he wants to radiate and infuse the subject his focussed love, warmth and acceptance. Daniel is rather shamanic.
Princess Victoria’s dress was rather stunning. Next up, the ever elegant lastborn of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s three children, Princess Madeleine. Her American husband was present and she did wear a pillbox hat and performed a graceful curtsey. Madeleine was then followed by her sister-in-law, princess Sofia who won the day for best hat. Sofia’s hat was a black netted flapper affair, which added to her charm of the delicate Swedish beauty with the sexy gap-toothed smile.
When Madeleine’s American husband greets the Norwegian King, it is formal and adroit. They are not close and he has married in; however, there is no hauteur on Haakon’s part. The couple who follows Mr. O’Neil I do suspect is Princess Alexandra, daughter of King Frederik X’s aunt, Princess Benedikte and her spouse. Either way, the couple are the last couple to be seen greeting King Haakon VIII.
What was telling in the close bond between the Nordic royals. This is perfectly understandable, all three countries Sweden, Denmark and Norway previously formed a kingdom. Interesting tidbit, the current UK second in line, Prince George was previously the daughter of both William and Catherine and she went on to be the very competent Queen of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Seeing King Frederik X grab and hug his jogging partner King Haakon VIII was good to have observed. King Willem-Alexander also gave Haakon VIII a big hug; their interaction was warm and sincere.
Sweet and blissful dreams to the indefatigable Princess Astrid, older brother of King Harald who died two days after her brother’s funeral.
Bond, James Bond? No darling, Haakon VIII. Nothing beats that Lincoln Continental convertible any day of the week. And look at Haakon VIII’s swagger. He is the real deal! The King rolling up to take his oath before the Norwegian parliament and people looking like a Boss!
Members of the Glücksburg dynasty at the passing of King Harald V.
A fitting send off to the universally loved, King Harald V of Norway. Sweet and blissful dreams…
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