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 was broadcast live on Norway’s
two largest television channels. Present from the Norwegian Royal
Family were King…
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…
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 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 Highness remarked, “I am
exhausted faster than before, so today I have to take more care of
myself than I did…
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…
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
Mette-Marit Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be in
Frankfurt, Germany later this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair
which is taking…
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…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has
made promoting literature one of her main causes and now she’s
publishing a book to help raise the profile of Norwegian arts. The
Crown Princess is behind a collection of writing that will hit the
shelves in…
Early in May, Crown Princess Mette-Marit
of Norway hosted the “literature metro” together with her husband,
the Crown Prince. Because of her health, Her Royal Highness has
this year, chosen to switch out her annual “literature train” to a
more urban “literature metro”. Instead of using some of Norway’s
long and remote train lines to promote literature to young people,
she used the…
