News about the royals in the GALA ticker: Concern about the health of Princess Mette-Marit +++ Secret appearance! Princess Victoria and the children ring in the midsummer weekend +++ Caroline von Hanover cannot hold back her tears here.
Royal News 2022 in the GALA ticker
June 28, 2022
How is Princess Mette-Marit after Haakon’s diagnosis?
After Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 18, in August 2021 and King Harald, 85, contracted the corona virus in March 2022, Prince Haakon, 48, has now contracted COVID-19. The royal court reported this on Sunday morning, June 26, 2022.
An official statement said he had “mild symptoms,” but concern for his wife Princess Mette-Marit, 48, is growing. The reason: The Crown Princess suffers from chronic pulmonary fibrosis and visited the Oslo London pub with her husband the day before Haakon tested positive, where two people were shot dead on the night of June 25th. So far, no information has been given about her state of health or even a positive test result has been announced, but there is great concern for Mette-Marit. An infection with the corona virus could lead to the long-term consequences of “Long Covid” for the princess, according to the Robert Koch Institute, Mette-Marit, who has chronic lung disease, is one of the risk groups for severe courses.
June 27, 2022
Secret Appearance! Princess Victoria and the children ring in the midsummer weekend
Last Saturday, June 25th, the whole of Sweden celebrated its popular and well-known midsummer festival far beyond the country’s borders. Princess Victoria, 44, Princess Estelle, 10, and Prince Oscar, 6, kicked off the summer solstice weekend celebrations with a surprise visit from outside the public eye, according to a picture that has surfaced on Estelle’s Cultural Foundation Instagram account. However, there was no sign of Prince Daniel, 48.
Victoria and Estelle smile for the camera, only Oscar, who is holding Rio, the dog of the heir to the Swedish throne, on a leash, looks a little grim. The three royals viewed the foundation’s third artwork in royal Djurgården on June 26.
Resembling a three-dimensional piece of cloth, the two-metre-tall sculpture “Bronze Wind Sculpture I” was created by Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare, 59. The sculpture was inaugurated by Daniel on June 2nd. However, Estelle and Co. were absent from the celebrations. That’s probably why Victoria’s husband wasn’t there last Friday – and was already waiting for his family to enjoy the following midsummer festival with them.
Caroline von Hanover represents Prince Albert at a moving funeral service
It is a tragedy that happened on June 19 in Monaco: Firefighter Thierry Pérard died during an operation, he was only 51 years old. On June 24, 2022, he was buried in Monaco Cathedral. Prince Albert, 64, deeply regretted “not being able to attend the national tribute in person”, as he stressed in an official press release, but he and his family were still in Norway at the time of the funeral service. Nevertheless, the regent had the flags flown at half-mast throughout the principality and elevated the deceased to the rank of sergeant-major in the fire service. He also posthumously made Thierry Pérard a Knight of the Order of Saint Charles. It is extremely rare for a firefighter to die on duty in Monaco, local media reports.
Albert was represented at the funeral service by his sister Caroline von Hannover, 65, and his aide Colonel Luc Fringant. It was a moving ceremony that moved Princess Caroline in particular to tears. This is shown by video recordings of “Diocèse de Monaco”. While Caroline was still wearing sunglasses at the beginning of the service, she had to take them off after several speeches by Pérard’s colleagues and relatives in order to wipe the tears from her eyes several times. After the service, the 65-year-old went to the grieving family and was also very emotional: the princess wiped the tear-stained faces of the relatives and hugged one of the mourners for a long time.
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Sources used: instagram.com, Dana Press, diocese.mc, histoiresroyales.fr, instagram.com, youtube.com