Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia celebrated this year’s Orthodox Christmas at the Royal Palace in Dedinje. They were joined by other family members of the Serbian Royal Family. Besides the members of the Serbian Royal Family, also present were the members of the Crown Council, members of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander’s Foundation…
King Harald was scheduled to attend on Tuesday of this week the official opening of a large oil field, the so-called Johan Sverdrup field, in the North Sea. Due to the stresses of Ari Behn’s death, the Royal Court announced Monday afternoon that the King cannot attend.
On Tuesday this week, His Majesty King Harald of Norway is to fly out into the North Sea with Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Oil and Energy Minister Sylvi Listhaug. There, the King will attend the solemn opening of Norway’s third largest oil field. This has created…
In the early hours of Friday, a burglary took place at the Danish royal residence of Marselisborg Palace. The break-in at the royal residence was detected by a burglar-alarm which went off at 01.15 am on Friday. The alarm had a direct connection to the local police who mobilised all available crew and went to the palace.
The news was made public on Friday afternoon after police had concluded…
Princess Märtha Louise’s ex-husband, Ari Behn, was buried Friday after a funeral at Oslo Cathedral. Since he took his life on Christmas Day, Princess Märtha Louise has been silent about her ex-husband’s death. On Friday evening, she made the following…
On Friday, the funeral took place for Ari Behn, the former husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, at Oslo Cathedral.
Ari Behn died last week after taking his own life on Christmas Day aged 47. Many royals and members of the Behn family attended the funeral which…
On the first day of the New Year, it is a tradition that Norway’s Prime Minister gives a New Year’s speech. This happens exactly one day following the speech of His Majesty King Harald. Both the King and the Prime Minister had to change and re-record their speeches following the suicide of Ari Behn, the former husband of Princess Märtha Louise.
The Prime Minister highlighted suicide and…
According to the official program for Queen Sonja of Norway, the Queen should have opened a new art exhibition on Thursday of this week. The Queen’s participation in the opening has been announced for several weeks. Now, the Royal Court has removed this planned…
Crown Princess Victoria cancels all her plans and travels to Norway
29th December 2019
According to various Swedish media sources, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has cancelled all her private Christmas and New Year’s events and travelled to Oslo.
The message about Ari Behns suicide was extremely sadfor Victoria, who knew him closely. She has now put…
Being kidnapped is perhaps a royal’s biggest nightmare. Fortunately, this has not happened in recent times. Still, many have made plans to kidnap royals, but they have fortunately failed. A rather unknown story of a kidnapping attempt was aimed at the then 26-year-old Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon in 1999.
The kidnapping attempt was kept secret for a long time, and we still don’t…
