New Year’s Eve is the evening many people
associate with a good dinner and fireworks. For the last 71 years
His Majesty The King’s Speech has also been a tradition for the
Norwegian people, first on radio, now on TV. See the entire speech
in the bottom of the article (the speech is in Norwegian). Both
King Harald and Queen Sonja will celebrate their 80th birthday in
2017. “This…
The Norwegian Royal Family goes from one
jubilee-year to another year of anniversaries. Both King Harald and
Queen Sonja celebrates their eightieth birthday in 2017. King
Harald celebrates his birthday on 21 February, while Queen Sonja
4th of July. In the recent days, it has…
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince
Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway participated Monday
morning in a voluntary distribution of breakfast to the poor in
Oslo. Long before the Crown Prince and Crown Princess came to hand
out food, more than 100 had got in line…
His Majesty King Harald of Norway owns
stocks with a value of £18. It is the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet
(English: The Daily Magazine) that can report this today. Dagbladet
is one the few magazines that has a negative attitude towards the
royal house in Norway. They have in the recent years been on a
perpetual quest to find out how much the Norwegian Royal Family
owns and how much the Norwegian…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway concludes
today a three-day long visit to New York. His Royal Highness
visited New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This is an organisation that
the Crown Prince supports, and he has…
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of
Norway attended the presentation of the award for “Role Model of
the Year”. This occurs just a few days after the Crown Prince has
returned from a four-day long official visit to Canada together
with Crown Princess…
For the Norwegian people, it is widely
known that one can be grateful to King Haakon VII of Norway that
the resistance against the German occupation was as extensive as it
was during the Second World War. King Haakon refused to appoint the
German friendly Vidkun Quisling as prime minister and he
refused to sign the German peace-proposal. After Norway was lost to
the Germans, he and Crown Prince…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway is
embroiled in a scandal in Norway. Allegedly, he rented out five
flats that had been deemed unsafe to live in on his official
estate, Skaugum. According to The Sunday Times, the heir
to the Norwegian throne was ordered to remove petrol that…
King Harald V of Norway formally opened
Norway’s 161st session of Parliament this afternoon in
Oslo. The day began with His Majesty being driven in his 1966
Lincoln Continental convertible with Queen Sonja through downtown
Oslo before arriving at the Storting…
A passionate five-minute address given by
King Harald V of Norway to 1,500 guests during a royal garden party
in the park of the Royal Palace in Oslo has gone viral. A
spokeswoman from the palace, Marianna Hagen, said the palace
received a huge number of requests for an official English
translation of the speech. The original video received almost
80,000 likes and has been viewed over 3 million…
