Princess Ingrid Alexandra ready for the Armed Forces – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country

This summer, the Royal Palace announced that from January Princess Ingrid Alexandra will serve her initial service in Brigade Nord in Indre Troms. – She has chosen to join the Armed Forces. She will be in the Engineer Battalion at Skjold for a twelve-month initial service. So it will be exciting, says Crown Prince Haakon now. The camp is located in Øverbygd in Målselv – where the lowest measured temperature in March 2023 was 20 degrees Celsius. – I myself have a defense background and have learned a lot from it and think it has been a good experience to have with me. So I hope it will be the same for her, says father Crown Prince Haakon to news’s ​​”The Year with the Royal Family”. Personal dilemma The crown prince himself has described great personal anguish when he was the princess’s age and going into the military. Crown Prince Haakon was anxious about joining the Armed Forces. Nevertheless, he chose the Command School and the Naval Academy. Photo: Jon Eeg / NTB scanpix He finally chose command school after high school, before he then took three years of education at the Naval Academy. But before he entered the Armed Forces, the inner conflict tore at him. The dilemma in which the person Haakon, who was on the borderline of a pacifist, met the heir to the throne, who, as monarch, will one day become commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The Crown Prince: – Very positive Today he thinks it is positive that his daughter, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, is going to the Armed Forces. Values ​​that are important to fight for, says Crown Prince Haakon when his daughter is now going to spend a year in the Armed Forces. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news – I think it is important to defend the Norway that we have built up, says Crown Prince Haakon. – We want to live in a state of law. We want democracy. We want human rights to be respected. We want freedom of speech. And those things are important to fight for. Therefore, I think it is very positive. At the same time that Princess Ingrid Alexandra, like a number of other peers, is going to join the Armed Forces, we are in a troubled time with war in Europe as well. – Does the crown prince have any thoughts about the princess going to the Armed Forces in the times we are in now? – Yes, I think that it is a reminder that we are willing to defend the values ​​that we have built up in society, and that we are keen to preserve, says Crown Prince Haakon. King Harald emphasized the same when he visited Norwegian soldiers who guard the border between Norway and Russia earlier this year. When Princess Ingrid Alexandra turned 18 and came of age, she was allowed to participate in a cabinet meeting at the Palace as an observer. The king’s role in the constitutional monarchy is, among other things, to lead the cabinet weekly at the Palace. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB The princess in a fighter plane When Princess Ingrid Alexandra one day becomes Queen of Norway, she will also become Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces’ graduation gift to her was a visit to the Hunter Troop in the Armed Forces’ special command at Rena. When the princess turned 18 in January 2022, she got three dream days in the Armed Forces – one in each branch, in both the Army, the Navy and the Air Force – and a parachute jump. By then she had already flown the F-16 fighter plane, one of the last in Norway. She controlled the levers herself for parts of the trip. Saw the kingdom from the air. Over Evenes, over “Norway’s national mountain” Stetind – towards Bardufoss, down towards Lofoten and back in the sea areas around Bodø. Princess Ingrid Alexandra got to fly with the F-16. Half a year after the 18th birthday, the parachute gift was redeemed. From a height of 20,000 feet, equivalent to more than 6,000 meters, the princess threw herself together with soldiers from the Armed Forces Special Command (FSK) at Rena, according to the Palace. Princess Ingrid Alexandra fulfilled one of her greatest wishes when she parachuted in 2022. Photo: Simen Løvberg Sund, The Royal Court



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