Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway (born August 19, 1973 in Kristiansand ; born Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby ) is the wife of the Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon .
Life
The Crown Princess is the youngest daughter of the journalist and publisher Sven O. Høiby (1936–2007) and the banker Marit Tjessem. She has three older siblings, sister Kristin and brothers Espen and Per Høiby. She grew up in Kristiansand . She took ballet lessons , played volleyball , was a boy scout and sang in the choir. When she was eleven, her parents' marriage ended in divorce. Both parents married again.
Mette-Marit attended the cathedral school in Kristiansand from 1988 , which she left in 1994 with the Abitur. During her school days she stayed in Australia for a year . After graduating from high school, she passed her examen philosophicum , also known as “ex.phil” for short in Norway, at Agder University . In the following years Mette-Marit studied in several fields of study at the University of Oslo .
On January 13, 1997 she gave birth to her son Marius Borg Høiby in Oslo . The boy's father is Morten Borg.
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She met the Norwegian heir to the throne Haakon in 1999 at the Quart Festival , a major music and art festival in Kristiansand . They got engaged on December 1, 2000 and were married on August 25, 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)
In 2002 and 2003, the Crown Prince couple lived with Marius in London for a year . The princess was a student at SOAS during this time . The main focus of her studies was development policy .
In the fall of 2008, the Crown Princess began part-time studies at the Norwegian School of Management BI .
The Crown Prince couple have lived on Skaugum Estate in Asker near Oslo since their return from London in 2003 .
In the massacre on the island of Utøya on July 22, 2011, Princess Mette-Marit's step-brother, the 51-year-old police officer Trond Berntsen, was shot dead by the assassin Anders Behring Breivik after he had brought his ten-year-old son and two girls to safety and up ran up to the assassin. Berntsen's father was married to Mette-Marit's mother.
illness
In October 2018 it was announced that the Crown Princess had been suffering from progressive chronic pulmonary fibrosis for several years .
Tasks and interests
The Crown Princess played an active role in setting up the Humanitarian Fund for the Crown Prince Couple on the occasion of their wedding. In April 2006, Crown Princess Mette-Marit was appointed special ambassador for UNAIDS . She is the patron of various organizations, including the Norwegian Red Cross .
The personal interests of Crown Princess Mette-Marit include art and culture, especially literature and music. In 2008 Mette-Marit received a gold record for a CD with hymns that she had put together. In 2019 she published the Hjemlandet og andre fortellinger collection with stories by Norwegian authors.
Web links
Wikinews: Mette-Marit of Norway - in the news- Official website of the Norwegian royal family (English)
- HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit
- Norwegian Crown Princess met with Jeffrey Epstein - Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has apologized for meeting with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- Literature by and about Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby in the catalog of the German National Library
literature
- Håvard Melnæs: Mette-Marit . Ullstein, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-548-42069-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Abendblatt.de : Report from August 25, 2016
- ↑ t-online on July 25, 2011: Mette-Marit's stepbrother shot on Utoya (accessed on the same day).
- ↑ MZ online July 25, 2011: Stepbrother of Princess Mette-Marit among murder victims (accessed on the same day).
- ↑ Spiegel online October 25, 2018: Princess Mette-Marit suffers from chronic lung disease (accessed October 26, 2018)
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| SURNAME | Høiby, Mette-Marit Tjessem |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mette-Marit of Norway |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian wife of the Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiansand |