Today we take a look at Norway’s future
queen consort. Her Royal Highness was born on 19 August 1973
in Kristiansand, Norway. She has one older sister and two
older brothers. Her parents divorced when she was young, and both
would eventually remarry. As a child, she spent many weekends on
the coast, where she learned to sail. She completed her upper
secondary education at Kristiansand…
It was a tense day for Crown Princess
Mette-Marit of Norway and her family as one of their beloved dogs,
the Labradoodle, Muffin Kråkebolle (translated to English: Muffin
Sea Urchin), disappeared for several hours while the family was
skiing at Furuholmen in…
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…
Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess
Mette-Marit of Norway attended events today to mark 5 years since
the tragic terror attacks in 2011. [getty src=”149028727″
width=”594″ height=”396″] At 9:30am CEST, the Crown Prince and
Princess were present at the commemoration in the government
quarter of Oslo, where the first attack took place. The Norwegian
Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, spoke…
Norway was in mourning this weekend,
following the tragic helicopter crash off the coast of Bergen, the
country’s second largest city, on Friday. The Airbus EC-225
helicopter had been ferrying staff from an offshore Statoil rig in
the Gullfaks B oilfield before the crash…
