Norway celebrates its National Day on May 17 and the celebration will be smaller this year due to the pandemic. However, the Norwegian royal family has now announced their plans for the special celebration of Norway’s constitution. Even without the traditional children’s parade at the Royal Palace, the royal family will be the centre of a gathering at the palace this year.
The…
Crown Prince Haakon to continue as an ambassador to the United Nations Development Programme
11th May 2021
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway has signed an agreement to serve an additional two years as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Crown Prince was first appointed to be a goodwill ambassador for the programme in…
On Saturday, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon laid a wreath to commemorate those who have lost their lives in the service of Norway. Over the weekend, Norway marked their liberation from German occupation after World War II. The Norwegian Royal Family has a long…
The summer season is officially underway for crew and officers on the Royal Norwegian Ship. On Thursday afternoon, King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon embarked the ship for inspection.
The tradition of royal embarkation dates back to 1948 when King Haakon VII received ‘Norway’ as a gift from the Norwegian people. Due to the ongoing global health emergency, the 2021 sailing programme…
Atlantic Crossing - Fact vs Fiction - a series full of mistakes that many viewers will simply accept as facts
7th May 2021
Royal Central’s Senior Europe Correspondent Oskar Aanmoen, who is based in Oslo, talks us through the inaccuracies contained within Atlantic Crossing – an eight-part series looking at the plight of the Norwegian Crown Princess during World War II.
Atlantic…
On Tuesday, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway visited the Aurora workshop – a working community of artists with and without disabilities in Bærum. Ceramics, textiles, clothing and paper have been produced at the workshop, despite a pandemic and strict infection…
Due to the ongoing pandemic, Queen Sonja’s art gallery in the old stables at the Royal Palace in Oslo has been closed for over a year. The Queen has now established a new exhibition that will be shown digitally. Some of Norway’s most beautiful works of art will be exhibited this summer in the Queen Sonja Art Stable, in collaboration with the National Museum. The exhibition “Art…
The Norwegian monarchy is rock solid. Recent surveys show that an average of 82% of the Norwegian people wants to keep the monarchy as their form of government.
However, the leader of the Norwegian Agricultural Party, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, accused the conservative…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway’s digital visit to California continued on Wednesday. On Tuesday, His Royal Highness met with California’s governor as well as students from Californian Universities. On Wednesday, the Norwegian Crown Prince held a conversation with…
On Tuesday this week His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway started his two-day virtual visit to San Francisco, California. The trip is Norway’s first major virtual visit abroad where the public get the opportunity to follow the official visit digitally. The Norwegian participants were in a studio in Oslo, and the Americans in a studio in San Francisco. However, for those who…
