King Harald and Queen Sonja continued
their journey in Nordland. They started their visit on Tuesday, and
yesterday the tour continued to Værøy and Røst. The royals arrived
at Røst on the royal yacht “Norge”. This municipality has 365
islands but only 500 inhabitants, and almost all of them were ready
to receive the King and Queen. In the municipality’s village of
Glea, there…
On Tuesday morning, King Harald and Queen
Sonja started their annual county journey. This time the Norwegian
regents travelled to Nordland. The visit will last three days and
end on Thursday. First up was Straumen in Sørfold municipality and
Vollmoen in Steigen…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Prince
Daniel of Sweden attended the EAT Stockholm Food Forum in Sweden
today. After holding a speech for the assembly where the Crown
Prince emphasised the importance of living more sustainably, Crown
Prince Haakon shared some of his own…
There is nothing that prevents the Duke
and Duchess of Sussex from becoming the King and Queen of Canada,
thanks to a loophole in the law. This has been reported in various
Canadian newspapers the last few days. According to Canadian law,
the Canadian constitution says the North American nation needs to
be a monarchy, but it does not specify who the monarch must be.
Therefore, theoretically, the…
On Friday morning, His Majesty King
Harald and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited
the Huseby Leir military camp in Oslo to perform their annual
inspection of His Majesty The King’s Guard. The Huseby Leir camp is
located west in the capital of Oslo and…
Yesterday, more than 500 former
participants were invited to the SIKT five-year celebrations at the
Royal Palace in Oslo on the special invitation of his Royal
Highness the Crown Prince. Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess
Mette Marit and Queen Sonja were present during the…
Her Royal Highness Princess Ingrid
Alexandra of Norway, unveiled this Friday four new sculptures in
Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Sculpture Park in the Palace Park by
the Royal Palace in Oslo. The Princess was accompanied by her
grandmother, Her Majesty Queen Sonja. The sculptures that Princess
Ingrid Alexandra unveiled were the winners of a contest among
schoolchildren from Oslo, Akershus…
Southern Norway is now in an unusually
warm period. A heat wave has hit the country and has lasted almost
a month with temperatures of 30-32 degrees Celsius during the
daytime. This is quite different from what the southern parts of
Norway generally has – very low…
On the occasion of His Majesty King
Constantine of Greece’s birthday today, we look back on the
monarch’s life, his time on the throne, time in exile and return to
Greece. King Constantine was born on 2 June 1940 in Athens. He was
only one-year-old when Italy and…
Wednesday of this week Her Majesty
Margareta, custodian of the crown of Romania and her husband Prince
Radu attended a ceremony where a new book about King Michael was
presented. A large audience took part in the event. Following the
book-launch, a short concert was held in memory of the king.
Camelia Csiki, co-author of the book and historian spoke about the
new book together with Corinthian…
