{"id":154684,"date":"2026-08-28T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/154684\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:20:19","slug":"oslo-mayor-calls-off-wedding-ceremony-after-death-of-norways-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/154684\/","title":{"rendered":"Oslo mayor calls off wedding ceremony after death of Norway’s king"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oslo’s Mayor Anne Lindboe has called off her wedding ceremony because of the death of Norway’s King Harald V.<\/p>\n

The wedding with her fiance P\u00e5l Sandvid was planned for Friday but was postponed after the king died early on the same day, her political adviser confirmed to the BBC.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard to imagine an Oslo and a Norway without you. You didn’t need a crowd to be King,” Lindboe wrote in a tribute to the late king on Instagram.<\/p>\n

King Harald reigned for 35 years and died at the national hospital in Norway’s capital where he was being treated for a rare blood condition. His son, King Haakon VIII<\/a>, became Norway’s new monarch on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Even the majority of Norwegians who never met you in person still felt like they knew you,” Mayor Lindboe added in her tribute.<\/p>\n

No new date has been set for the wedding yet, Lindboe’s political adviser told the BBC.<\/p>\n

After five years together, Lindboe announced the couple’s engagement in June this year.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/p>\n

Oslo’s mayor pictured next to King Harald V of Norway in March 2025 [Getty Images]<\/p>\n

The late king was a popular and reforming leader in Norway who modernised the monarchy.<\/p>\n

He broke with tradition by marrying a commoner, Queen Sonja, and served as a unifying figure at Norway’s most difficult moments.<\/p>\n

Harald died a day before their 58th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

Members of the public have been gathering to lay flowers at a memorial outside the Royal Palace in Oslo.<\/p>\n

Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said in a televised memorial address that his country was “united in grief and gratitude” for Harald’s service and that his “legacy lives on”.<\/p>\n

Britain’s King Charles III said he was mourning his “dear cousin”. King Harald V was a second cousin of King Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

Haakon VIII is the great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oslo’s Mayor Anne Lindboe has called off her wedding ceremony because of the death of Norway’s King Harald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[72767,72765,71550,72688,13018,72764,157,72763,156,27096,72766],"class_list":["post-154684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-anne-lindboe","tag-haakon-viii","tag-harald","tag-harald-v","tag-king-charles","tag-lindboe","tag-norway","tag-norways-king","tag-oslo","tag-queen-sonja","tag-queen-victoria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117173815193641697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154684","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=154684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}