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Crown Prince Couple of Norway undertake visit to Svalbard

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24th April 2022
Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway have visited Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic.The Crown Prince Couple were in Svalbard for three days beginning on 20 April when they were in Longyearbyen. On Wednesday, the couple visited the Longyearbyen Public Library, where they heard a presentation from the head of the Longyearbyen Community Council, Arild Olsen, regarding the…
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A look back at the Norwegian royal year

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29th December 2021
JanuaryKing Harald set the tone for the year with his New Year’s Eve speech, noting: “The hope will carry us all into 2021.”Sadly, 2021 began on a sad note for the Norwegian Royal Family. They paid a visit to Gjerdrum, the site of a devastating landslide shortly before the New Year. But history was also made in January 2021: King Harald marked 30 years on the Norwegian…
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Haakon and Mette-Marit: 20 years on

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24th August 2021
Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary on 25 August, and from the moment they married, they set out to become a modern Norwegian couple while maintaining a full roster of royal engagements.As we celebrate this…
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Norway's royals meet survivors from the 2011 terror attack

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11th June 2021
Norway’s royal couple and Crown Prince Couple recently met many of those who survived the terrorist attack on Utøya in Norway in 2011. This year marks ten years since the terrorist attack on the young people on Utøya and on the government quarter in Oslo. The Royal Family has met several survivors after the July 22 attacks and has reacted strongly to survivors being exposed to hate…
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Haakon, thirty years as heir

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18th January 2021
Though King Harald and Queen Sonja are marking 30 years on the throne this year, there’s another anniversary in Norway to commemorate as well: Crown Prince Haakon’s 30 years as the heir apparent to the throne.Born on 20 July 1973, Haakon has been destined for the Norwegian throne since birth, as absolute primogeniture had not yet taken effect in Norway until 1990 (otherwise, his older…
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