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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway reveals she was offered the chance to become Queen

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17th December 2020
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway has revealed to Insider Magazine that she was offered the chance to become Queen. When Princess Märtha Louise of Norway was born in 1971, women were barred from inherited the Norwegian throne. A younger brother, Crown Prince Haakon, was born two years later, and it is he who is destined to become King. However, it all could have changed in 1986. Princess…
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Princess Märtha Louise to cease using title in business

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7th August 2019
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway has agreed to stop using the title of Princess in her business activities, the Norwegian Royal Household has announced. The Princess came to this decision after consulting with her family. Princess Märtha Louise will continue to use her…
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Remembering King Olav V of Norway

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17th January 2017
Today it is exactly 26 years since His Majesty King Olav V of Norway died. King Olav was born as Prince of Denmark, and his parents were King Haakon VII and Queen Maud, who was the daughter of Edward VII of Britain. Olav was born on 2 July 1903 and baptised Alexander Edward Christian. He spent his first two years in England and Denmark before his father was elected King of Norway in a referendum…
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King of Norway's diversity speech goes viral

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7th September 2016
A passionate five-minute address given by King Harald V of Norway to 1,500 guests during a royal garden party in the park of the Royal Palace in Oslo has gone viral. A spokeswoman from the palace, Marianna Hagen, said the palace received a huge number of requests for an…
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Norwegian royals meet families of helicopter crash victims

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3rd May 2016
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 killed all 13 people on board. On Saturday, a sombre Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, accompanied by Crown Prince…
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