While The Queen’s Reading Room Festival
at Hampton Court Palace wrapped up on Sunday, Crown Princess
Mette-Marit of Norway has also been celebrating literature this
week with the launch of her literary train for 2024. An annual
event, the Norwegian Crown Princess boarded her literary train
again on 11 June to visit several communities and to highlight the
importance of reading.
Business as usual for Princess Anne as election forces Royal Family to reconsider agenda
23rd May 2024
As King Charles juggled his diary for an
unexpected meeting with the Prime Minister and Buckingham Palace
later confirmed that His Majesty and his family would be cutting
back on duties as a general election campaign got under way, one
Windsor didn’t get the…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway took on a
significant duty this week to mark a sombre anniversary for Norway.
On Wednesday, 8 May, Crown Prince Haakon marked Liberation Day by
participating in a ceremony at the National Monument in Oslo. The
ceremonies took place at…
The King of Norway will take up his
official duties again after an absence of almost two months caused
by illness. King Harald, 87, hasn’t carried out any engagements
since the middle of February when he was taken ill during a holiday
to Malaysia. He was treated in hospital there after contracting an
infection and had to have a temporary pacemaker fitted before he
was well enough to…
King Harald is looking well and happy in
an official photo taken just weeks after surgery to fit a
pacemaker, The King of Norway, 87, was seen alongside Queen Sonja
as they began their Easter break at Bygdø Kongsgård. They were
joined by their son, Crown Prince…
The special meaning in the engagement ring of a princess nicknamed Cinderella
26th March 2024
Theirs was an engagement announcement
that threatened the monarchy’s stability, but the ring upon
Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby’s ring finger symbolised nearly a century
of royal love matches, and theirs would, in time, be no different.
Crown Prince Haakon and…
It was a royal wedding for the history
books, the marriage of a future king and a regal love match to
boot. In 1929, Olav of Norway married Martha of Sweden in Oslo. The
couple’s romance had captured the public imagination while their
rather glamourous wedding brought huge crowds to the streets of the
Norwegian capital. Let’s rewind nine decades and remember the
wedding that charmed a…
King Harald of Norway has left hospital
after several weeks of treatment. The Norwegian monarch, 87, was
discharged from the Rigshospitalet in Oslo on March 14th and went
home to the Royal Palace where he will continue to recuperate. The
Royal Court said King Harald…
King Harald has undergone successful
surgery to place a permanent pacemaker following a period of
infection, the Norwegian Royal Court announced on Tuesday. The King
had been vacationing in Malaysia with Queen Sonja when he fell ill
and was taken to a local hospital. His…
The marriage of Sonja Haraldsen to the
future King of Norway, on August 29th 1968, marked a moment of joy
in a relationship that had caused huge debate as soon as it was
known about. For the bride had no royal blood in a monarchy where
princes were expected to wed regally. However, love prevailed and
Sonja married the then Crown Prince Harald in front of crowned
heads from across Europe. This…
