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    Re: Queen Sonja's brooch on national day Archived Message

    Posted by Lorenzo on May 22, 2015, 12:33 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Sonja's brooch on national day"

    Thanks all of you for the explanation. I hadn't noticed this brooch before.

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    : I have also noted in my files that this brooch
    : was a wedding gift to Queen Maud by Czar
    : Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra
    : Feodorovna, but I do not remember the source
    : of this information - and I do not have
    : pictures of Queen Maud or Crown Princess
    : Märtha wearing this brooch.
    :
    : Queen Sonja wore it a few times in the past
    : years, notably on 17th May 2014, in
    : Eidsvoll, for the bicentenary of the
    : Norwegian Constitution:
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    :
    : (Credit: Nigel Waldron/Getty Images Europe)
    :
    : Queen Sonja also wore this brooch on 10th
    : October 2012 for President of Finland Sauli
    : Niinistö's State visit:
    :
    :
    :
    : (Credit: Cornelius Poppe / NTB Scanpix)
    :
    : (Credit: Kuva/Sari Gustafsson)
    :
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