MM's spending habits criticized

[PeDe]

SPIRITUAL Highness: Princess Mette-Marit has been spiritual. Therefore, she uses one hundred thousand in jewelry Justin Bieber and other celebrities have.

Mette-Marit is a spiritual Buddhist. Or an expensive trend elf.

Last time I saw Mette-Marit was on a Christmas concert at the Palace. I was invited by er in-law's. Sonja wanted even welcome. Because of space limitations, they had most of us attend the TV couch, but she assured that it was so nice to be able to ask all of us to his house.

CONCERT
A was held in cooperation with the Crown Princess's Fund, which supports multiple projects for disadvantaged youth. Many of them were in the audience. It is probably the part of the job as Crown Prince Haakon call meaningful, a condition he asked to go into the family business. He had to make a difference, and then charged him not to minister every Friday, but it to help people who are worse off than himself. In practice, the vast majority. Historically, it is not part of the royal job description, but as it is emptied of content, the big European family found new tasks. Prince Charles have the card waiting time with charity, organic farming and polo, but despite that he spoke with plants, he was surpassed by Diana who set a new standard in royal double. She saved the world during the day and took it by storm in the evening.

AFTER DIANA HAS ROYAL
Though that poverty and suffering can be glamorous. One can engage in charity and mingle with celebrities and rich people at the same time. You can dress in haute couture that could be funded an entire village for a year and still be very against poverty. One can be for renewable energy and still promote oil in corrupt countries. You can, as Mette-Marit, use ridiculous amounts of money on clothes and jewelry, if it only has a meaning.

When Mette-Marit wear a necklace of half a million is not because she is a fashion victim in the luxury class and a royal trend Santa Claus, but that Shamballa Jewels has a spiritual dimension. Shamballa is the name of a mythical kingdom in the Himalayas, the Tibetan monks come when they die, according to Tibetan Buddhism. a utopian PLACE for the elect. Much like the Palace after renovation. Even Justin Bieber realize that this is cool. But Mette-Marit is not a pop star. Both he and other stars have thrown the clothes and accessories by themselves in the hope that they will create a trend. Diana barely paid for his own underwear. I hope that Mette-Marit will pay what it costs, but in this case may Skaugum need a visit from "Star Trap."

She is frequently dressed in dresses as possible covered by apanasjen. I suspect that it is not the case, unless the rumors of a hidden royal wealth is true and they waste away on designer dresses and spiritual jewelry. Harald is avspist with an old jacket. Over class has always been charitable in nice clothes. Charity was invented to give them something to do. They were bored. In modern times, rich people continue the tradition, and something must crown the couple get to the speeches and entertainment. However popular it is not. Politicians had not tolerated it.

They can not talk about poverty, tear-jerking one moment and wallow in luxury the other. People would call it hypocrisy and double standards. When the royal do, rolled the dice six for a flight end designer dress. Tibetan monk is fortunately not concerned about money.

The Danish jewelry designers exploit them and take all the profits. You must be a celebrity or royalty to believe it is spiritual. But spirituality should be completely free.   

[hanzo1]

Great article HYPOCRISY that is the word   she really spends way too much on clothing in a Maxima sort of way except that Max can afford to cuase she is seriously wealthy
I think she wears It cause It's trendy Mary has this bracelet too  

[Little_star]

Do the NRF have a large private fortune or are they mainly funded by the public like their Danish counterparts?

[abs]

Do the NRF have a large private fortune or are they mainly funded by the public like their Danish counterparts?

Don´t quote me on it, but I think it is like it is here in Denmark. A few years ago, Sonja and Harald had some major restaurations done, and there was a lot of criticism from the public about the lavishness of it. If it was done with their own money, there would have been no criticism.

[LucyintheSky]

Thanks for the article PeDe! Good to know I'm not the only one that's not singing MM's praises anymore

[Little_star]

Do the NRF have a large private fortune or are they mainly funded by the public like their Danish counterparts?

Don´t quote me on it, but I think it is like it is here in Denmark. A few years ago, Sonja and Harald had some major restaurations done, and there was a lot of criticism from the public about the lavishness of it. If it was done with their own money, there would have been no criticism.

Thanks abs.  So would it be fair to say they do not have a large (by royal standards) personal fortune like the Dutch RF?

[fairy]

Well the dutch are ridiculously rich, but I think the Norwegian can't nag either. OIL is quite powerful and they do have some....

[abs]

Well the dutch are ridiculously rich, but I think the Norwegian can't nag either. OIL is quite powerful and they do have some....

That is the Norwegian state, not the royal family. I really don´t think they have any substantial fortune.

[Kuei Fei]

Amazing how these 'down to earth' commoners end up spending so much on money on couture and jewelry and getting their hair coiffed that the way they throw it around one would swear that they had never seen a bill in their life.

[Lollie]

  to you, Kuei Fei. ITA.

[LucyintheSky]

Well the dutch are ridiculously rich, but I think the Norwegian can't nag either. OIL is quite powerful and they do have some....

I thought the same thing- that the oil companies in Norway paid a alot of money in taxes to the state, which could theoretically end up as money given to the NRF from the state-
Here's a link on the amount of taxes paid by Statoil:
http://www.statoil.com/An...,BonusesAndRoyalties.aspx
In short:
Direct and indirect taxes
In 2010, Statoil paid NOK  91.3 billion in tax on income and NOK  32.3 billion in indirect taxes. Direct and indirect taxes paid in Norway amounted to NOK  96.7 billion. Direct and indirect taxes paid outside Norway totalled NOK  27.0 billion. In 2009, Statoil paid NOK  98.5 billion in tax on income and NOK  27.3 billion in indirect taxes. The decrease of NOK 2.1 billion from 2009 to 2010 in taxes paid was a direct result of the slight decrease in revenues in 2010. The decrease in taxes paid in 2010 was mainly due to the reduction in taxes paid in Norway, the USA and Latvia. This was partly

offset by the increase in tax paid in Canada, Belgium and Angola.

In Norway, oil companies currently pay income tax in six instalments per year. Three instalments are paid in the income year: on 1 August, 1 October and 1 December. The remaining three instalments are paid in the following year: on 1 February, 1 April and 1 June. The instalments paid in the income year are based on 50% of the forecast income for the year, and the estimate is made in mid-June. Over-estimated and paid amounts are compensated at market interest rates, but cannot be changed until the 1 February payment the following year.Statoil's income before tax in 2010 was NOK  131.3 billion in Norway and NOK  5.5 billion in other countries. The tax expense was NOK  85.4 billion in Norway and NOK  5.9 billion in other countries.We must pay taxes on our investments in other countries that generate production and revenues. Taxes paid to the authorities in these countries are expected to increase as our revenues increase. Direct and indirect taxes will not normally accrue during the investment phase. Since a long time elapses from a discovery until production starts up, there will be many countries in the list of activities in which we have investments but in which we do not yet pay taxes.
So, quite alot of money does go into Norway from oil companies

[Larzen]

Don´t quote me on it, but I think it is like it is here in Denmark. A few years ago, Sonja and Harald had some major restaurations done, and there was a lot of criticism from the public about the lavishness of it. If it was done with their own money, there would have been no criticism.

It was the restoration of the palace, which of course Harald and Sonja does not own, it would be kinda strange if they should use their own money to renovate it. The palace was rotten after King Olav had neglected to take care of it because he wanted to be modest and not ask for more money, the same as happened with many buildings like the royal farm, all rotting and falling apart. So he pushed the rennovation over to the next generation. It was the state who put a budget for the rennovation, and it turned out ot be all to little, and the King and queen was critisised for the budget collapsing,  I think it was one factor that the state had not known just how bad state the palace was, and Sonja thankfully was very insistent on spending time and money on getting the historic colors and an interior back to its old stage, which i guess contributed to the costs increasing. Yes it cost money but I think it was worth. Norway only has one palace, and we are one of the richest countres in the world, of course we should take care of the few historic buildings we have. I must say Im glad Sonja and HArald took the criticsm back then-HArald has said he thought the critism of his wife was unjust and it made him sad to see her critices in the press so much at the time. They could have gone for easy solutions or whatever but usually with old buildings that is just pushing the problem forward. I hope for the future they have learned and do continues renovation


The Kings fortune has been speculated about alot, all from 100 million NOK, to a billion, the latter has been denied, as has the rumour that he owns alot of property in London. forinstance the Kings sister Princess Astrid is listed in the tax lists having a fortune of 54 million NOK, in 2004 Märtha had a fortune of 16 million NOK.  When HArald and sonja took over Skaugum as CP couple he had to borrow money in the bank renovate and run Skaugum, so that he was very rich then is out of the question. It is likely to belive that Haakon has a fortune as well, maybe more than Märtha but since his is not public it is impossible to say. He does get more covered than Märtha who bought the house they live in for 10 million NOK or so, and spent alot on renovation of King Olavs old summerhouse which she got as a weddinggift, also in a bad state I guess

Mette-Marit spending on clothes has been a thing for the press ever since she got engaged, the court has been very restrictive to talk about it, they are not like the UK court who confirms the designers, but a year or so the communication chief said that they would often buy on sales or last seasons design. they also denied it back in the days when VG said that her blue Valentino dress for Frederiks wedding was a couture dress that cost 500 000 NOK, the palace said it was ready to wear dress modified for her and the prize unrealistic and that the paper had to removed ATELAST a zero. Still prizy but shows that there is alot of uncertainty about what they pay for clothes. Sonja was also critisiced for her spendings on clothes when she was a CP, but because she is older now, there is not much that is said about her and her Chanel purses, and the fact that she wears less norwegian design than Mette-MArit. Almost all major occasions the last years she has worn french, italian or old danish designs by Erik Mortensen when he worked at Balmain, she also has used Kent Fredin who dresses Mary now and then as well. that beeing said Mette-Marit would be smart to turn down her love for Valentino, it is to noticable a design and the press calls Harrods and the likes and asks what such a dress would cost and then she gets the press she got around Nobel. the one in the family who wears most norwegian design is Märtha Louise....and it really shows.....Personally I dont care what they spend on their clothes as long as they are within the money the state gives them, but I think it would be better to go to a neutral tailor and have clothes made especailly, and not act as walking billboards for labels like Prada and Valentino that really does not need the promotion....

[Larzen]

I thought the same thing- that the oil companies in Norway paid a alot of money in taxes to the state, which could theoretically end up as money given to the NRF from the state-
Here's a link on the amount of taxes paid by Statoil:
http://www.statoil.com/An...,BonusesAndRoyalties.aspx

Alot of the money from the oli business goes to the Goverment pension fund which is a relaisation that oil is a non renewable source of money, it will dry up and therefor the State saves alot of the oil money here
read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/w...nt_Pension_Fund_of_Norway

It would be a whole other story if the RF has Staoil shares,, like the dutch RF is said to have Shell shares.

[abs]

Larzen, thanks for your input. Interesting reading it. 
I know the Norwegian governments/state are very careful with the oil money. They DO NOT spend it right and left!

[Little_star]

Thanks for all the info Larzen and it's really good to see you again. Don't be a stranger.