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 weekly council of states which are
held at the Royal Palace in Oslo. This also marks the end of the
tourist season at the…
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…
Norway's Royal Family attend the funeral of 'Norwegian political giant' Thorvald Stoltenberg
2nd August 2018
His Majesty King Harald alongside Her
Majesty Queen Sonja and Princess Astrid, King Harald’s older
sister, attended the funeral of Thorvald Stoltenberg on Thursday.
Thorvald Stoltenberg was the father of NATO’s general secretary
Jens Stoltenberg and former…
Her Majesty Queen Sonja is to visit
France in September. Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be present during
the opening of the exhibition “Forces de la Nature” at the National
Ceramics Museum in Sèvres on 23 September 2018. The display is a
tribute to Norwegian creativity in modern ceramics and wallpaper
design. Exceptional in scale, “Forces of Nature” presents no less
than 65 works…
On Thursday, His Majesty King Harald of
Norway has released a statement concerning the Greek forest
fires. The announcement said: Your Excellency, Mr Prokopis
Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic I am saddened by
the news about the terrible forest fires that have…
This year marks 200 years since Karl
XIV Johan became king of both Norway and Sweden. The French
General, who became Swedish and Norwegian King, was used to
troubled times. After he became a monarch, this did not change. The
Swedish representatives created problems for the…
On Friday, large parts of the Norwegian
Royal Family were gathered to celebrate Crown Prince Haakon who was
45-years-old. They celebrated the big day at the Royal Family’s
country house at Mågerø in Tjøme, where the whole family where
gathered for a private birthday celebration. View this post on
Instagram A post shared by Det Norske Kongehuset…
According to tradition, King Harald ended
this week with his annual salmon fishing holiday in northern
Norway. For two days, King Harald was by the Altaelva River in
Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county. Together with a few good
comrades, they fished for Norwegian…
It was a quiet country house, described
by several who knew it as ‘’little’’ and a ‘’pied a terre’, given
as a wedding present to a royal couple who were expected to linger
on the fringes of regal life. Yet on July 2nd 1903, it became the
birthplace of one of…
Following an unusual heat wave that has
been over Norway since the beginning of May, the Royal properties
in Oslo had to stop their usual watering last week. Now the City
council of Oslo has given the palace special permission to use
water during the ongoing drought. This was announced by the palace
in a statement on Tuesday. The fountains in the park recycle the
water. The royal gardener…
