Dancing in Golden Room at Stockholm City Hall during Nobel Awards
When the limousines glide to a stop outside the Stockholm Concert Hall for the Nobel Prize award ceremony, it marks the beginning of a well-rehearsed ritual where every minute is planned by the Nobel Foundation, the host of the event. The audience takes its seats and rises when the royal family arrives. Finally the stars of the day’s event, the prizewinners, appear on stage. They have rehearsed the ceremony the day before, so they know exactly how many steps they should move back after having shaken hands with the king and received their medal and diploma. They receive a generous prize amount, too. In the first several years of the 21st century, each prize totaled SEK 10 million (USD million). On the same day, the Peace Prize is awarded in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, in accordance with the wishes of Alfred Nobel. When he wrote his will concerning the distribution of the prizes, Norway and Sweden were linked in a union, which was dissolved in 1905.
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