[PW] How to address the Swedish Vice Consul?

[Burton, Donna]

See if this might answer your question, Nina:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/15742.pdf
State Department's "Protocol for the Modern Diplomat."


Donna Burton
Government Documents/Reference
Federal Document Depository 0421 
Schaffer Library, Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308
Email: burtond at union.edu
Phone: 518-388-6635
Fax: 518-388-6641

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Subject: [PW] How to address the Swedish Vice Consul?


Dear stumpers,

Hello from my glamorous new job as Education and Community Programs
Director for Boston Lyric Opera.

One of my colleagues has a question.  We're producing an opera that
takes place in Sweden, and the Swedish Vice Consul will attend the
opening.

How do we properly greet/address her?

I tried Googling "forms of address," which I remember seeing in backs of
big dictionaries, and now I know how to describe her and write her a
letter.  But when someone actually gets to speak to her, what do we call
her?  And are there other protocols we should know about?  Like, you
kiss her hand and say "Your sublime consulship?"  I know that's not
right.

My reputation with my new colleagues rides on this answer.  (And on
everything else they ask, me I guess.)

We would love an answer before Thursday 3/29, so we know we don't have
to keep looking.  Opera opens Friday.

We'd also love to know where to find this sort of information, so next
time we do an opera and invite diplomats, we'll be ready.

I know, Plan B would be to call the Consulate and ask, but I'd love to
find a documentable source.  Vice Consul's name is Margareta (Ginga)
Sewerin-Olsson.

My guess, based on Googling "Madame Consul," is that she's "Madame
Consul."  But I'd love to know for real.