His Majesty King Harald and Her Majesty
Queen Sonja watched Thursday afternoon His Majesty the King’s Guard
perform in the Palace Square from the Palace Balcony at Royal
Palace in Oslo. Over a thousand people had met up to see the
show lasting for 30 minutes. The heat wave in Norway is now over
and temperatures are back to normal. Earlier this summer
southern Norway was unusually warm. A…
Yesterday, Crown Princess Victoria and
her husband, Prince Daniel attended the SNS Tylösand Conference in
Halmstad in Sweden. The conference was not open to the media and is
kept under the Chatham House Rule. The Chatham House Rule is a
system for holding debates and…
The Crown Prince of Denmark, Crown Prince
Frederik and his wife, Crown Princess Mary, are preparing for a
four-day visit to the Faro Islands. The royals will be in the Faro
Islands from Thursday until Sunday, and the royal yacht “Dannebrog”
will be used during the…
In light rain, His Royal Highness Crown
Prince Haakon opened Tuesday the Nor-Fishing 2018 fair in
Trondheim. “Fortunately, we have a tent,” said a happy Crown Prince
to the press when he arrived. The Nor-Fishing fair has, since 1960,
been an important national and international meeting place for the
fisheries industry. Today, it is one of the most significant
fisheries technology exhibitions…
Yesterday, Crown Princess Victoria of
Sweden visited Estonia together with her husband, Prince Daniel.
During their daylong visit, the royals were accompanied by
Estonia’s President Kersti Kaljulaid. The occasion of the trip is
to pay respect to the country’s…
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess
Mette-Marit of Norway has not always been Crown Princess of Norway.
For many years of her life, she was just an ordinary Norwegian
girl. The woman who was to become Norway’s Crown Princess, and in
the future, Norway’s Queen was…
On Thursday afternoon, His Majesty King
Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden attended a
seminar at Ørebro Castle in Sweden in connection with the 200th
anniversary of King Karl Johan’s ascension to the throne. This year
marks 200 years since Karl Johan became King of Sweden and Norway,
and founded the Royal House of Bernadotte which is still on the
throne in Sweden. The…
An extraordinary Council of State was
held today in Norway following the political crisis that has
occurred. The meeting was announced just a few hours before it was
held in the Council of State Hall at the Royal Palace in Oslo. His
Majesty King Harald was present, along…
On Thursday, the Norwegian Royal Family
concluded their summer holiday with a week-long cruise with the
royal yacht to the islands of Svalbard. Friday was, therefore, the
first official workday for the royals. King Harald met with his
government to begin the autumn’s…
The summer holiday for the Norwegian
Royal Family is now almost over. Last week King Harald, Queen Sonja
and Princess Astrid attended the funeral of former minister for
foreign affairs Thorvald Stoltenberg. Following the funeral, large
parts of the Norwegian Royal Family went on a week-long holiday on
the Norwegian royal yacht “KS Norge”. At the end of their royal
cruise, Their Majesties The…
