One week into the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and royalty has been just about everywhere. They’ve been cheering on their country men and women as they compete in the various sporting competitions, but mostly anonymously. Meaning, many ordinary people probably did not know there was royalty in their midst as they watched the events.
Earlier this week, Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon was photographed watching the downhill skiing and at the women’s biathlon. He likely went unnoticed with his dark sunglasses.
Also watching the biathlon was Denmark’s Crown Princely couple, Frederik and Mary. They also were at the downhill skiing event. As an IOC member, Frederik took part in the medal ceremony for the Men’s Biathlon 10 km Sprint at Whistler Medal Plaza.
Later, he and Mary were photographed watching one of the hockey games.
Another royal taking part in a medal ceremony was Prince Albert II of
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Monaco. A five-time Winter Olympian in the bobsledding as well as an IOC member, the Prince awarded the medal winners of the the Alpine skiing Men’s Super-G event at the Whistler Medal Plaza.
Royalty come and go at these Games, some of them arriving halfway through. Those that did were Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and their son Prince Carl Philip. The Swedish royals came on Thursday, just in time to watch the women’s round robin curling event. They watched as Sweden beat China 6 – 4.
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