Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has not always been Crown Princess of Norway. For many years of her life, she was just an ordinary Norwegian girl. The woman who was to become Norway’s Crown Princess, and in the future, Norway’s Queen was born as Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby.
The regular girl came to this world on 19 August 1973 in Kristiansand, as the daughter of…
Sonja Haraldsen was born on 4 July 1937 as the youngest child of Karl August and Dagny Haraldsen at the Red Cross Clinic in Oslo. Her elder brothers were Haakon (b. 1921) and Karl (1929-1936), and her elder sister was Gry (b. 1924).
However, her brother Karl died the year…
An extraordinary Council of State was held today in Norway following the political crisis that has occurred. The meeting was announced just a few hours before it was held in the Council of State Hall at the Royal Palace in Oslo. His Majesty King Harald was present, along…
On Thursday, the Norwegian Royal Family concluded their summer holiday with a week-long cruise with the royal yacht to the islands of Svalbard. Friday was, therefore, the first official workday for the royals. King Harald met with his government to begin the autumn’s weekly council of states which are held at the Royal Palace in Oslo.
This also marks the end of the tourist season at the…
The summer holiday for the Norwegian Royal Family is now almost over. Last week King Harald, Queen Sonja and Princess Astrid attended the funeral of former minister for foreign affairs Thorvald Stoltenberg. Following the funeral, large parts of the Norwegian Royal Family…
Norway's Royal Family attend the funeral of 'Norwegian political giant' Thorvald Stoltenberg
2nd August 2018
His Majesty King Harald alongside Her Majesty Queen Sonja and Princess Astrid, King Harald’s older sister, attended the funeral of Thorvald Stoltenberg on Thursday. Thorvald Stoltenberg was the father of NATO’s general secretary Jens Stoltenberg and former…
Her Majesty Queen Sonja is to visit France in September. Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be present during the opening of the exhibition “Forces de la Nature” at the National Ceramics Museum in Sèvres on 23 September 2018. The display is a tribute to Norwegian creativity in modern ceramics and wallpaper design.
Exceptional in scale, “Forces of Nature” presents no less than 65 works…
On Thursday, His Majesty King Harald of Norway has released a statement concerning the Greek forest fires. The announcement said:
Your Excellency, Mr Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic
I am saddened by the news about the terrible forest fires that have…
On Friday, large parts of the Norwegian Royal Family were gathered to celebrate Crown Prince Haakon who was 45-years-old. They celebrated the big day at the Royal Family’s country house at Mågerø in Tjøme, where the whole family where gathered for a private birthday…
According to tradition, King Harald ended this week with his annual salmon fishing holiday in northern Norway. For two days, King Harald was by the Altaelva River in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county. Together with a few good comrades, they fished for Norwegian salmon. On the two days of the holiday, the King and his friends managed to catch three big salmons. His Majesty struck all…
