Here are some more older pictures
Before engagement
1 The first picture ever shown of her in Norway, it was sold to the local paper in her hometown by a (former I would guess
) firend, the press in Norway had known about her for some time but had no picture until Fedrelandsvennen published this.
2 Mette-Marit going to work during the summer 2000, she had to quit shortly because the press camped outside her fiends clotheshop where she helped out (aftenposten)
From cover
3 In autum 2000 the presscoverage about Mette-Mairt and Haakon was very big with lots of speculation and rumours, and the press were constantly following Mette-Marit. The court called a meeting to try to settle things and stop some of the speculations, and ended up saying it would be an engagement. That ofcourse made the press search for her even more and the same day she and Haakon let them self be photographed by the press together casaully at St. Hanshaugen in Oslo.
4 Summer 2000. Haakon and Mette-Marit leaving her mothers home in Kristiansand, the press made camp outside her mothers home when it was known they were there, it was also shown on TV
5 During the big Quart music festival in Kristiansand summer 2000, the bald guy is their best and most trusted friend Morten Andreassen
6 In a park in Oslo, summer 2000
7 After the engagement, they attended together with the rest of the family the opening of Queen Sonjas art exhibition.
8 Summer 2002 they recieved a belated weddinggift, the university in Oslo decided that instead of finding a gift for the couple that would have everything they payed for a schollarship for an exchangestudent from Africa to get a free education in their name
9 I dont remeber what event this was but it was in the summer 2002, possible a civil wedding
