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King Harald and Queen Sonja attended golden jubilee concert at Oscar's Hall Palace

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4th September 2018
Their Majesties The King and Queen of Norway were present when the Armed Forces Music Corps performed at an outdoor concert at Oscar’s Hall on the occasion of the King and Queen’s golden wedding ceremony on Monday evening. The event was free and open to the public, so that they could join in the celebration of the royal anniversary. Significant parts of the concert programme were taken…
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Crown Prince Haakon to visit New York

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3rd September 2018
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway is travelling to the USA at the end of September. His Royal Highness will be visiting New York for a few days to attend the High Level Week of the United Nations in New York. He will stay in the United States from 24 to 27…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Queen Sonja of Norway

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29th August 2018
The marriage of Harald and Sonja of Norway on August 29th 1968 was a groundbreaking royal wedding. But the bride chose some very traditional blooms for her bouquet while the church where she said ‘I do’ was decked with popular flowers and foliage. As Sonja Haraldsen walked into Oslo Cathedral, she carried a bouquet of white flowers arranged in a simple design. Amongst her posy were freesias…
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Crown Prince Haakon attended the International Conference of Offshore in the Northern Sea

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27th August 2018
On Monday, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway attended the opening ceremony and visited several of the exhibitors when the International Conference of Offshore in the Northern Sea (ONS) opened in Stavanger. Before the opening ceremony, the Crown Prince received a guided tour of the conference hall, accompanied by CEO of ONS, Leif Johan Sevland, Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje…
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Before they were royal: The life of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway

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19th August 2018
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 born as Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby. The regular girl came to this world on 19 August 1973 in Kristiansand, as the daughter of…
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