Politics and Society
| Iceland Monitor
| Wed 3 Aug 2016
| 17.00 GMT
PHOTOS: 11 images of the life of an Iceland president
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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and his first wife Guðrún Katrín Þorbergsdóttir greeting the crowds the day after he was voted President in 1996.
Iceland Monitor/Sverrir
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Grímsson with his wife and daughters after his very first inauguration as President of Iceland.
Iceland Monitor/Golli
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Ólafur and Guðrún entertaining the Queen and Prince Consort of Denmark in 1998.
Iceland Monitor/Golli
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The President's first wife died of leukemia in 1998, at the age of 64.
Iceland Monitor/ Golli
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Grímsson with his new partner, Israel-born British national Dorrit Moussaieff, and his daughter on holiday in India.
Iceland Monitor/RAX
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Grímsson announced his engagement to Moussaieff in May 2000.
Iceland Monitor/Kristinn Ingvarsson
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The presidential couple with US President George Bush.
Iceland Monitor/ÞÖK
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The Presidential and First Lady of Iceland entertaining their US counterparts, Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2005.
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Dorrit Mousaieff trying her hand at water-skiing.
Iceland Monitor/Halldór Sveinbjörnsson
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The President and First Lady on the famous balcony after reelection in 2008.
Iceland Monitor/Frikki
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Grímsson and Moussaieff at the ordination of Iceland's first woman bishop in 2014.
Iceland Monitor/Eggert
Former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson stood down from his post at midnight on Sunday after twenty years at the head of the Icelandic State.
With him goes Iceland’s charismatic and colourful First Lady Dorrit Mousaieff, who has supported her husband in that role for sixteen years.
Here is a selection of photographs charting Grímsson’s time at Bessastaðir, official residence of the President of Iceland.
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