Norway

Crown Princess Mette-Marit talks about her chronic pulmonary fibrosis

By
21st October 2019
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, 46, has opened up about her chronic pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis that came last October in a tv interview in Norway that was filmed while she was on her literature train in Germany this month. On the effects of the disease, Her Royal Highness remarked, “I am exhausted faster than before, so today I have to take more care of myself than I did…
Read more
Norway

Crown Princess Mette-Marit opens Frankfurt Book Fair

By
17th October 2019
Crown Princess Mette-Marit opened the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany on Wednesday alongside her husband, Crown Prince Haakon. The couple had been on a literature train with Norwegian authors travelling from Berlin to Cologne and on to Frankfurt where the world’s…
Norway

Crown Princess Mette-Marit to serve as ambassador to Frankfurt Book Fair

By
9th October 2019
“For me, this is the gift of literature: that it transports me both outwards and inwards, that it leads me to reach higher and wider, and that it enables me to gain a better understanding of both myself and others.” – Crown Princess Mette-Marit Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be in Frankfurt, Germany later this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair which is taking…
Read more
Norway

Crown Princess Mette Marit brings her "literature train" to Germany

By
13th June 2019
Early in May, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway hosted the “literature metro” together with her husband, the Crown Prince. Because of her health, Her Royal Highness has this year, chosen to switch out her annual “literature train” to a more urban “literature metro”. Instead of using some of Norway’s long and remote train lines to promote literature to young people, she used the…
Read more
Norway

Norway’s Royal Family celebrates National Day

By
17th May 2019
On Friday, Norway celebrated National Day – a day when Norway celebrates its constitution, which, just behind the constitution to the United States, is the oldest in the world still in use. The day was celebrated from early morning until late in the evening, and the…
Norway

Crown Princess Mette-Marit hosts “literature metro” in Oslo

By
10th May 2019
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit hosted the “literature metro” together with her husband, the Crown Prince. Because of her health, Her Royal Highness has this year, chosen to switch out her annual “literature train” to a more urban “literature metro”. Instead of using some of Norway’s long and remote train lines to promote…
Read more