Norway’s crown prince couple celebrate their fiftieth birthday together.
Norway will celebrate double royal birthdays this coming summer, as both Crown Prince Haakon and his wife, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, will turn 50.
Haakon’s birthday is July 20 and Mette-Marit’s is August 19.
There will be a celebration of the rounds! PDO
A joint big party is planned, which will be organized on a special day for the couple, August 25. The day is Haakon and Mette-Marit’s wedding day.
They got married in 2001 in Oslo Cathedral. So in the summer we celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. The couple has been together for a total of 24 years.
The combined birthday and wedding anniversary is celebrated at Oslo’s Royal Palace in a large yard party. Having seen Nordic rulers and plenty of ordinary people there.
The couple, who met at the Kristiansand festival in 1999, had a rocky start. Mette-Marit was a single parent of a small son and her ex-boyfriend had been convicted of a drug offence. The nation shuddered, but the Court of Norway welcomed Mette-Marit with open arms.
Mette-Marit and Haakon got married in the summer of 2001. PDO
The family later grew with two children together.
In recent years, Mette-Marit’s health has been overshadowed by incurable pulmonary fibrosis
Source: Svenskdam