Who is Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway?


Stamp of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Born on 21 January 2004 at 9:13 am in The National Hospital,
part of the Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Princess Ingrid Alexandra is the
first child and only daughter of Crown Prince Haakon, heir apparent to the throne,
and the second granddaughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. 

Her mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has a son named Marius Borg Høiby,
born in 1997 from a previous relationship.Following Ingrid Alexandra's birth,
the already well-regarded royal family experienced an upsurge of popularity.

Ingrid Alexandra was baptised by Bishop Gunnar Stålsett in the chapel of the
Royal Palace on 17 April 2004. Her grandfather the King, her aunt Princess
Märtha Louise, the Crown Prince of Denmark, the Crown Princess of Sweden,
the then Prince of Asturias, and her maternal grandmother
Marit Tjessem were her godparents.

The Crown Prince of Denmark and the Prince of Asturias were unable
to attend the christening due to their respective weddings scheduled to
occur within a month of the christening.

On 31 August 2019, Ingrid Alexandra was confirmed in the Palace Chapel
in Oslo with all her godparents present.


Education


Ingrid Alexandra started her first day of school on 19 August 2010
at Jansløkka elementary school, a local state school attended by her half-brother.
Her parents chose the school because they wanted her to have as ordinary a
childhood as possible. Newspaper reports said Princess Ingrid Alexandra
would walk to school with her half-brother, and local citizens could expect to
see her occasionally out in the community with her classmates on school outings.
School officials hoped to make the school a place where the princess could
make friends and enjoy some relief from public scrutiny.

On 17 June 2014, the Norwegian Royal Family notified the public
that from the start of the 2014–2015 school year, Princess Ingrid Alexandra
would transfer to the private English-language Oslo International School,
reportedly because her parents wanted her to be fluent in English.

Princess Ingrid Alexandra was transferred to Oslo's Uranienborg School to
complete her lower secondary education. In the fall of 2020 she began further
schooling at Elvebakken Upper Secondary School in Oslo.



Stamp of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, 
her father Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and
her grandfather King Harald V of Norway



Duty


On 19 June 2010, Princess Ingrid Alexandra served as a bridesmaid
at the wedding of her godmother, the Crown Princess of Sweden.

In December 2012, the Princess attended an interview with her father by a
Norwegian television programme in aid of Environmental Agents, the children's
environmental organization. Her mother was supposed to attend, but
the Crown Prince attended instead as the Crown Princess was ill.

She has taken part in traditional celebrations of the Constitution Day,
as well as the traditional ski jumping tournament at Holmenkollen in Oslo.

On 4 May 2015, Princess Ingrid Alexandra christened the Norwegian Rescue
Company's new lifeboat, Elias, in her first royal assignment. Accompanied
by her grandfather the King, she was made godmother of the boat.

On 19 May 2016, the Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park
opened in the Palace Park, as part of the celebration of the King and Queen's 25th
anniversary. 

On 12 February 2016, the Princess and her grandfather participated in
the opening ceremony of the II Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer: the King,
as he previously did in 1994 Winter Olympics, declared the Games opened,
while the Princess, like her father Crown Prince Haakon did 22 years before,
lit the cauldron.

In 2018, she gave a guided tour of the Palace park to the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge,
on the occasion of their official visit to Norway.

On 17 November 2018, Princess Ingrid Alexandra christened the research
vessel Kronprins Haakon, which was named after her father. The vessel was
christened at its home port of Tromsø. The princess spoke of her interest in the
ocean and climate change, which motivated her in christening the ship.
She stated that the ship will bring "new and crucial knowledge about the
polar areas, about the oceans and about climate change."

The Princess won a gold medal in the Norwegian surfing championship
for juniors in October 2020. She is known as an avid surfer, and she also
trains at skiing and kickboxing.





To see pictures of this lovely princess see



Link 3 pictures from the Royal Court of Norway. 

Due to the covid pandemic the B-Day celebrations of Princess Ingrid Alexandra
of Norway are postponed to a later date. 

Family ties


Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway is a member of the House of Glücksburg 
and she is a descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.  


Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom


Princess Ingrid Alexandra  👉Crown Prince Haakon 👉 King Harald V of Norway
👉 King Olav V of Norway 👉 Princess Maud of Wales 👉 King Edward VII of
The United Kingdom  👉 Queen Victoria. 

More about the descendants of Queen Victoria of The United Kingdom on this link








On 20 January 2022, HRH Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway visited
the Norwegian Parliament, the princess was introduced to the work of the
Parliament by the President of the Parliament Flag of NorwayCrown. 



Source pictures: Wikipedia
Source pictures: Stamps of Norway

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