On Friday morning, His Majesty King
Harald and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited
the Huseby Leir military camp in Oslo to perform their annual
inspection of His Majesty The King’s Guard. The Huseby Leir camp is
located west in the capital of Oslo and is the headquarters of the
Royal Life Guard. Traditionally, the inspection takes place in
early June each year. Hundreds of…
His Majesty King Harald of Norway
participated Monday in the award ceremony for the prestigious Abel
Prize. The Abel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Professor Robert
Langlands, the man behind the programme that connects
representation theory and numerical theory mathematics at…
On Tuesday afternoon, King Harald and
Queen Sonja visited the Norwegian Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy just
outside Oslo. The reason for this visit was because the King and
Queen wanted to hear more about the plans to build the new museum.
The new museum will be completed in…
Monday afternoon, His Majesty King Harald
and Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway announced the season opening
for the Norwegian Royal Yacht “DS Norge”. The unique thing was the
Queen also participating this year. This is not common and has not
happened for many years. The Royal Court’s official calendar had
also not confirmed that the Queen was to participate. During the
summer season…
On Tuesday, His Majesty King Harald of
Norway participated in the events in memory of the Liberation Day
and the National Veterans Day at Akershus fortress in Oslo. Every
year, 8 May is a day where Norway honours all veterans, from World
War II and up to today’s…
Last week it was announced that King
Harald of Norway had to go on medical leave the rest of last week
following pain in his foot. On Monday, the King was back at work;
now he has performed his first official task in public following
the medical leave. On Friday, His Majesty…
His Majesty King Harald V of Norway is
today back at work as monarch of Norway again after he had to take
a few days of medical leave last week as a result of pain in the
foot. Even though His Majesty is back to work today, he has no
official duties before Thursday. Nevertheless, it is right to
assume that although the King has no official duties before
Thursday, some paperwork is expected for the…
It was announced yesterday by the
Norwegian Royal Court that King Harald is on medical leave, due to
pain in his foot. Crown Prince Haakon commented on this when he met
the Norwegian press during the last day of his Baltic trip.Since
the medical leave was announced, it…
His Majesty King Harald of Norway is on
medical leave from today due to pain in the foot. During
this time, Crown Prince Haakon will act as regent. This was
announced by the royal court at Oslo Palace Wednesday afternoon. It
is uncertain how long the King will be unable to…
King Harald of Norway has a personal goal
to visit all the municipalities in Norway. Yesterday, His
Majesty visited two towns that he has never been to on an official
visit. This happened the day after he handed out a cancer research
award in memory of his father, King Olav. Yesterday the journey
went to Gjesdal and Bjerkreim, in western Norway. The visit started
in Gjesdal, and when the King…
