Each year a member of the Norwegian Royal
Family becomes the patron of state television channel NRK’s charity
broadcast. Last year, it was Queen Sonja. It’s just been announced
that in 2020, King Harald will take on the role. The NRK TV charity
campaign of 2020 will support the WWF (the Worldwide Fund for
Nature) and its efforts to combat plastic in the sea. One third of
the plastic in…
It has been 80 years since the German
invasion of Norway. Hitler was looking for the Norwegian royal
family, and for a while, he also tried to get the 3-year-old Prince
Harald to rule the nation as a child king. The royal family managed
to escape and lived in exile in the UK…
Norway’s present collection of royal
regalia consists of nine pieces. They include three crowns – the
king’s crown, the queen’s crown and the crown prince’s crown.
However, this was made in 1818 for the coronation of King Karl XVI
Johan. Norway had at…
Shaman Durek comments on his relationship with Princess Märtha Louise
24th February 2020
The boyfriend of Norway’s Princess Märtha
Louise has told a newspaper that their relationship is strong
following reports in two European publications of a possible rift
between the pair. German newspaper, Bild, and Swiss paper, Swiss
Blick, have both speculated on the state of the couple’s
relationship recently. But in a text message to the Norwegian
newspaper “VG”, Durek…
After a long period of tragedy and
illness, King Harald appeared in public for the first time since 3
January, when Ari Behn was buried. Since then, the King has been on
sick leave and for a week, the King was hospitalised. Now a fresh
monarch was out to show his support for…
Today, Tuesday 21 January, Princess
Ingrid Alexandra of Norway turns 16-years-old. To celebrate the
occasion, we have compiled 16 facts about the Princess which you
might not have known before: Following Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s
birth, Germany’s leader had to go…
When the leading princess of a royal
court marries, it’s usually a grand affair with tiaras, sparkle and
endless celebrations. But when Astrid, then the de facto first lady
of Norway, said her ‘I dos’ in 1961, it was a low key affair that
changed the rules of royal romance. Her marriage to Johan Martin
Ferner was controversial but the fact that it took place at all
signalled a…
As the Royal 2010s come to an end, the
team at Royal Central are looking back at the highlights of the
decade just gone. Brittani Barger, Moniek Bloks and Lydia Starbuck
are joined by Laura Faurot, Oskar Aanmoen, Sydney Zatz, Jess Ilse
and Kristin Contino as they try to pick…
As the 2010s come to an end, minds turn
to reflection and remembering. The middle of the decade just gone
saw special celebrations in Norway for a king and queen who were
already well loved and who ended their jubilee even more popular
than before. Harald V took the throne…
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 Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon in
1999. The kidnapping attempt was kept secret for a long time, and
we still don’t…
