Fate with many faces: A Room at the Palace - Paperback

by Anne Selene (Author)

How often does it happen that someone is trying to do something they might think is impossible? This is the case with the story that unfolds in this book titled "A Room at the Palace". The story is about something that nobody have the chance to experience ever again. You get to read about an unemployed teenager that lives in the city of Moss, in the southern part of Norway, that one day are travelling to the capital and to the Royal Palace in Oslo to seek employment. Almost like a modern Ash Lad fairytale story, that knows lucky in life plays a greater role than what one initially would imagine. It soon turn out that the teenager is allowed to move into, and live at the Royal Palace, and what happening from there on, forms the basis for this book based on this true story. It's Court Marshal Smith-Kielland that are in charge at the Royal Palace in Oslo, and he provides the teenager with a key to a cosy, spacious room at the main floor in one of the wings at the Royal Palace. With views over the Palace Square and Queen's Park, this must be the bast place to live in the entire Oslo. With an access ID, in pure silver in the pocket, Drammens Road number 1 becomes both King Olav V of Norway and the 17-year old teenager's permanent residence. To get to stay with the King at the Royal Palace with 173 rooms, smack in the middle of Oslo's busiest centre, is a huge leap from living in a small 3 bedroom flat with parents and three brothers on the island of Jel y in Moss. Anyone who read this book, will soon realize that the teenager gets a very unique life experience by living at the Royal Palace. Here the author of this book gets to meet the grandchildren of the King, and all others in the Norwegian Royal Family of course. The meeting with King Olav V himself, many prominent guests and other Royals from both UK and elsewhere, who also visited the Royal Palace, are very special. To experience that the King himself did notice the newcomer, and they could soon talk together, and that King Olav V was originally interested in listening about the teenagers upbringing, as well about the Hungarian parents' escape from Hungary in 1956, is memories of a lifetime and incredibly huge experience. The book has many fun memories from both King's Lodge, the royal winter holiday place near Holmekollen ski jump in Oslo and their summer holiday place at Bygd King's Farm at beautiful Bygd y island at the outskirts of Oslo. We will meet late Queen Maud's old ladies-in-waiting, Miss Cooper and Miss Wand that lived at the Royal Palace for most of their life. The 17-year-old becomes good friends with both Misses, and in fact they gets like two lovely and extremely funny aunts. They both sat on a plethora of enjoyable memories from Queen Maud and King Olav childhood times, that they was happy to share with their new friend at the Royal Palace. Many everyday memories is shared in this book. Here we just mentioning the borrowing of King Olav V's Cadillac with driver. How many can tell such true stories from the Royal Palace in Oslo today?

Author Biography

In 1987 Anne Selene came up with the idea for A Room at the Palace, a story about a teenager's life, that wanted to move out from parents home, and into a larger place. It ended up with moving into the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway. It took more than twenty-five years before Anne Selene finally could find some spare time to sit down and work on this book project. Even though this is a trilogy, the first book released in the series, is this 2nd book. Anne Selene was born in 1960 in Trondheim, a northern city in Norway. After finishing studying in Norway, Anne Selene moved to New Zealand and ran several technology companies, in several countries. The main work was based on R&D, application- and embedded software-, as well as hardware developments for home automation and GPS navigation systems for aircraft and helicopters. Some work was also based on writing technical books about technologies developed. It was during this time Anne Selene thought that writing down this unique true stories could become a success. However, it was in 1998 that Anne Selene started writing the first book tittled Emma's Daughter, and later on used the diary and notes from the time living at the Royal Palace in Oslo, that turn into the book, A Room at the Palace. Anne Selene worked on the book project for four years, before publishing it in Norwegian language. This book is now translated into English. The Norwegian version, titled Residens Drammensveien 1, was released in December 2012 and quickly became a MISOLIMA Publishing bestseller.