Queen Sonja has visited Minnesota, where
over 20 per cent of the population consider themselves
Norwegian-American. Minnesota is, therefore, the American state
with solid connections to Norway. The Queen’s meeting was preceded
by a series of political talks. Queen Sonja met, among others,
Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, followed by a reception with
representatives of NOREX –…
The King and Queen of Norway have hosted
the President of Finland at the Royal Palace. After several
political meetings, President Sauli Niinistö of Finland attended a
friendship lunch at the Royal Palace in Oslo, where King Harald,
Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon…
In recent decades, the three Nordic
monarchies have collaborated in a number of areas. They have
carried out events together and thus strengthened the ties between
both the nations and the royal families. This autumn, it is time
for this again when Crown Prince Haakon of…
His Majesty King Harald has a goal of
visiting all the Norwegian municipalities at least once during his
reign. The long list is getting shorter and shorter and on October
4th 2022, the King was able to cross another municipality off the
list when the Norwegian monarch made his first official visit to
the municipality of Flensberg, in central Norway. Flesberg
municipality has 2, 710 inhabitants…
Norwegian press has reported that several
meetings have taken place at the Royal Palace in Oslo in the past
weeks where Princess Martha Louise’s title has been discussed. King
Harald, Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Martha Louise are said to
have been present. Now…
Crown Prince Haakon joined King Harald
and Queen Sonja of Norway for the State Opening of the Norwegian
Parliament, Storting, in Oslo. Military forces from the Navy, Air
Force and ground defence, as well as the King’s Guard, took their
place on the parade street, which…
Opening exhibitions is not unfamiliar for
Europe’s royalty, but opening three displays on the same evening is
probably rarer. However, Queen Sonja did just that when she made
the trip to the new Munch Museum in Oslo. The director welcomed the
Norwegian Queen in the museum’s Grand Hall. Her Majesty officially
opened three new exhibitions, which in the future will adorn the
vast new…
The Norwegian Royal Court has announced
the traditional closure of the Queen’s Park, which will reopen on
18 May 2023. The area is part of the larger Palace Park
complex, which also includes ponds and museums. The Palace Park was
built between 1840 and 1857, but the…
Princess Märtha Louise pays tribute to late ex-husband on what would have been his 50th birthday
3rd October 2022
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway shared
memories of her late ex-husband, Ari Behn, on Instagram over the
weekend, marking what would have been his 50th birthday. In an
emotional post filled with pictures of Behn, Princess Märtha Louise
wrote, “Dear Ari. Today we…
King Harald of Norway has comfortably
reigned for 31 years and his succession is shored up by his son
Crown Prince Haakon and granddaughter Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
The succession to the Norwegian throne is set out in the country’s
constitution, in Article 6, which stipulates that only children
born in lawful wedlock and only those born in the direct line of
descent from the last reigning…
