Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
Mette- Marit Crown Princess of Norway ( born August 19, 1973 in Kristiansand, native Mette -Marit Tjessem Høiby ) is the wife of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.
Life
The Crown Princess is the youngest daughter of journalist and publisher Sven O. Høiby (1936-2007) and the bank clerk Marit Tjessem. She has three older siblings, sister Kristin and the brothers and Per Espen Høiby. She grew up in Kristiansand. She took ballet lessons, played volleyball, was Scout and sang in the choir. When she was eleven years old, her parents' marriage ended in divorce. Both parents were married again.
Mette- Marit attended from 1988 the cathedral school in Kristiansand, which she left in 1994 with the Abitur. During her school years, she lived for a year in Australia. After high school, she put her exams philosophicum, also known in Norway shortly " ex.phil ", at the University of Agder from. In the following years, Mette- Marit studied in some fields of study at the University of Oslo.
On January 13, 1997, she gave her son Marius Borg in Oslo Høiby to the world. The boy's father is Morten Borg.
HM King Harald V * HM Queen Sonja *
- HRH Crown Prince Haakon * HRH Crown Princess Mette- Marit * HRH Princess Ingrid Alexandra *
- Prince Sverre Magnus SH
IH Princess Astrid
* Members of the Royal Family
The Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon she learned at the 1999 Quart Festival, know a great music and artistry Festival in Kristiansand. They became engaged on December 1, 2000 and married on 25 August 2001 in Oslo Cathedral. They have two children together:
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway ( born January 21, 2004 in Oslo)
- Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway ( born December 3, 2005 in Oslo)
2002 and 2003 the Crown Prince Couple with Marius lived for a year in London. The Princess was at this time a student at SOAS. Your major field of study was the development of policy.
The Crown Princess played an active role in the establishment of the Humanitarian Fund of the royal couple at their wedding. In April 2006, Crown Princess Mette- Marit was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. She is patron of various organizations, including the Norwegian Red Cross.
Among the personal interests of the Crown Princess Mette- Marit include arts and culture. This literature and music are their priorities. Mette -Marit in 2008 received a gold record for a CD of hymns, which they had put together.
In the fall of 2008, the Crown Princess took on a part-time studies at the Norwegian School of Management BI.
The royal couple has lived since his return from London in 2003 on the estate Skaugum in Asker near Oslo.
In the massacre on the island of Utøya on 22 July 2011, Princess Mette- Marit's stepbrother, 51 -year-old police officer Trond Berntsen, was shot by the assassin, after he had brought his ten year old son and two girls to safety and running toward the assassin had. Berntsen's father was married to Mette- Marit's mother.