Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway has given a rare interview to Norway’s state television channel NRK. In the interview the Crown Princess emphasizes that we are in a time when we all should care about each other’s mental health.
“I am so glad to see people again!” was the first response of Crown Princess Mette-Marit when the journalist from NRK arrived at the…
King Harald of Norway has ordered the declassification of secret spy documents. This was made public by the Norwegian government last Sunday and reported by Norwegian media. This is very rare and has only happened a few times in recent history.
It was during the weekly…
On Friday, the funeral took place for Ari Behn, the former husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, at Oslo Cathedral.
Ari Behn died last week after taking his own life on Christmas Day aged 47. Many royals and members of the Behn family attended the funeral which…
Being kidnapped is perhaps a royal’s biggest nightmare. Fortunately, this has not happened in recent times. Still, many have made plans to kidnap royals, but they have fortunately failed. A rather unknown story of a kidnapping attempt was aimed at the then 26-year-old Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon in 1999.
The kidnapping attempt was kept secret for a long time, and we still don’t…
Yesterday
it emerged that Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway held meetings with
disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after his release from prison. According to
VG, Norway’s biggest newspaper, Mette-Marit had meetings with Epstein between
2011 and 2013 – years after his…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit talks about her chronic pulmonary fibrosis
21st October 2019
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, 46, has opened up about her chronic pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis that came last October in a tv interview in Norway that was filmed while she was on her literature train in Germany this month.
On the effects of the disease, Her Royal…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit opened the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany on Wednesday alongside her husband, Crown Prince Haakon.
The couple had been on a literature train with Norwegian authors travelling from Berlin to Cologne and on to Frankfurt where the world’s largest book fair was finally opened.
The Royal Court said that 2,000 were in attendance and an expected 300,000 are…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon open exhibit and visit Norwegian bookstore in Germany
13th October 2019
Crown Princess Mette-Marit has begun her trip to Germany to promote Norwegian literature alongside her husband, Crown Prince Haakon.
She arrived in Düsseldorf on 11 October where she attended the opening of an exhibit. Crown Prince Haakon opened the “Edvard Munch…
“For me, this is the gift of literature: that it transports me both outwards and inwards, that it leads me to reach higher and wider, and that it enables me to gain a better understanding of both myself and others.” – Crown Princess…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit talks about her difficult childhood in new book
4th September 2019
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit revealed on Tuesday her brand new book together with the author, Geir Gulliksen. The new book from the Crown Princess is the anthology “Homeland and other stories” published by Aschehoug publishing house.
The book reveals, among other things, that Mette-Marit shaved off all her hair in year three in high school, and that her family just…
