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 municipality. On their journey, the King and
Queen are using the royal yacht “Norge.” There the royals will live
on their…
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…
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 celebrations.
Following an introduction by HRH Crown Prince Haakon, Berkeley
Professor Morten Hansen held a lecture on…
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…
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…
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of
Norway attended on Wednesday the Entrepreneur’s Market in Oslo at
the Lillo Estate and Farm. It is the second consecutive year in
which the Entrepreneur’s Market is organised at Lillo Farm by the
industry company, The AF Group. During the event, Crown Prince
Haakon was accompanied by Oslo’s Mayor, Marianne Borgen, and Group
Executive Vice…
An announcement has been made by the
Norwegian Foreign Ministry that King Harald has invited President
Andrei Kiska of Slovakia for a State Visit next week, he is due to
visit Norway between the 4th and 6th June. This is the first
official visit of a Slovakian President, but…
Several Norwegian royal properties will
be secured against terror for £55 million in the next years, and
the building of the security-facilities will soon begin. The
project has met criticism, as it has taken too long to put in
place. But now it happens seven years after…
On Tuesday, His Royal Highness Crown
Prince Haakon of Norway signed an agreement with the UN Development
Programme, UNDP, where he is committed to continuing his efforts as
a goodwill ambassador for their programme. The Crown Prince
received UNDP’s leader, Achim Steiner, in an audience at the Royal
Palace on Tuesday morning. Achim Steiner took over as head of UNDP
after Helen Clark in 2017.
