Royal bash guests asked to help pay for music

[The Straight Story]

Royal bash guests asked to help pay for music

Ahead of their joint 40th birthday bash, Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have reportedly asked their high-profile guests to contribute to cover the costs of musical entertainment.

The Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper reported on Tuesday that a friend of the couple, Morten Andreassen, had sent bank account details off to guests on the invite list. The cost of the party has already made the rounds of Norwegian headlines, with claims Oslo police were grumbling about the expense and staffing the security detail would entail.

Andreassen reportedly wrote to the guests comparing the bash to a festival, due to the musical acts drafted in to provide entertainment.

"Like all festivals without financial management, we have bought first and resolved to fix the money problem later... which makes this a desperate email from a man who has serious money problems," Andreassen wrote.

The contributions to the musical entertainment were to be considered a gift to the prince and princess.

http://www.thelocal.no/20130716/princes-friend-asks-guests-to-pay-for-royal-bash

[el_bryanto]

1. Well I'm not going to pay - for one thing I wasn't invited!

I wonder what it's like to be born to royalty - i'll bet it really messes you up.

Bryant

[pipoman]

2. Sounds like they need to raise some money...

they could probably raise some by making a porn video..people are always willing to pay to see famous people do such things..

Reminds me of a boss I once had who was having a summer party at his lake home for employees. He announced after payday that anyone who RSVPed for the party had $20 taken from their check to help cover the cost of the party and the cleanup. And that people who didn't rsvp were to report to work the next day at his lake home to help clean up.