{"id":109877,"date":"2026-06-17T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:07:09","slug":"norways-crown-princess-mette-marit-undergoes-successful-lung-transplant-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109877\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s Crown Princess Mette-Marit undergoes successful lung transplant in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway<\/a> has successfully undergone a lung transplant at an Oslo hospital, the country’s royal house confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old royal was diagnosed in 2018 with pulmonary fibrosis<\/a>, a progressive and incurable disease that causes significant damage and scarring to lung tissue, leading to severe breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, it was announced that she had been placed on a lung transplant list.<\/p>\n

The procedure took place at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, and Are Holm, the head of the hospital’s pulmonary department, said: “We are very pleased that everything has gone well so far.”<\/p>\n

Like other transplant recipients, she will remain in the hospital for “several weeks”, Dr Holm said.<\/p>\n

\"Norway's<\/p>\n

Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Reuters)<\/p>\n

He added that “this is standard procedure to adjust medications, manage any complications and conduct rehabilitation”.<\/p>\n

The royal house said that Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, will “adjust his schedule” to be with his wife during that period.<\/p>\n

It said that it plans its next update on her health when she is discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n

Mette-Marit’s condition worsened over recent months, coinciding with a challenging period for her on other fronts.<\/p>\n

Her eldest son, Marius Borg H\u00f8iby, was sentenced to four years in prison<\/a> on Monday after being convicted of two counts of rape, which he denied, among other offenses.<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby’s lawyers said that he will appeal convictions for rape and domestic abuse.<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby is Mette-Marit’s son from a previous relationship son and has no royal titles or official duties. However, his high-profile six-week trial cast a shadow over the royal family.<\/p>\n

While the trial played out, Mette-Marit separately faced renewed scrutiny over her connections with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That raised questions over her judgment, though she is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

She apologised in February<\/a> for the situation she put the royal family in, part of a broader apology for all those she had “disappointed”.<\/p>\n

In a television interview in March, she said she was manipulated and deceived by Epstein<\/a> and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with him at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has successfully undergone a lung transplant at an Oslo hospital, the country’s royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[417,418,3487,51723,419,157,156,36835,29200],"class_list":["post-109877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-crown-prince-haakon","tag-crown-princess-mette-marit","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-lung-transplant","tag-marius-borg-hoiby","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-pulmonary-fibrosis","tag-royal-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116764662216682924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}