Princess Lilian Won't Attend Nobel Banquet:
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, will attend the Nobel Awards Ceremony this Sunday, but not the following Nobel Banquet. "I'm 91 years old, and the banquet is very long, and, honestly, quite boring," Princess Lilian tells the Swedish World News. She continues: "I will however attend the Nobel Awards Ceremony, although that one is also much too long, if you ask me, and they should play something else than this perennial piece if music by Hugo Alfvén." She concludes: "I do feel obliged to attend the awards ceremony, seeing that I did a Grand Slam this year, receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Economics, although the latter isn't really a Nobel Prize."
Full Story