THE PARTY

May 22nd, 2002

From about 8:00 in the evening Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn gave a private and informal dinner party for about 100 people at the Bølgen & Moi restaurant in the centre of Trondheim, while a few hundreds of people were outside to watch the couple and their guests. The menu seems to have been mainly based on fresh seafood. Apart from members of the family and friends also several young royals showed up, including the Prince of Orange, Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Prince Laurent of Belgium, Prince Nikolaos of Greece, Princess Alexandra zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Count Jefferson-Friedrich von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth.

The party went on until about 3:00 in the morning and the guests enjoyed dancing on popmusic. Bride and groom stayed until the end and left the restaurant smiling and waving to the somewhat hundred people that were still waiting outside. Queen Sonja and King Harald already left the party shortly before midnight. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit left about half an hour before. Not much later a cheerful Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Nikolaos of Greece left the party together, much enjoyed by the boulevard press.