{"id":162562,"date":"2026-09-09T00:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/162562\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:08:15","slug":"king-felipe-leads-sombre-royals-arriving-in-oslo-ahead-of-king-haralds-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/162562\/","title":{"rendered":"King Felipe leads sombre royals arriving in Oslo ahead of King Harald’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

European royals have touched down in the Norwegian capital ahead of King Harald V<\/a> of Norway’s funeral service. On the eve of the late monarch’s state funeral, various foreign royals were pictured arriving at the luxurious Grand Hotel in Oslo.<\/p>\n

Spain’s King Felipe<\/a> and seemingly Queen Letizia<\/a> were pictured on a bus after landing at Oslo Airport on September 8. The Spanish King, dressed in a gray suit with a duffle bag in hand, was filmed waving at cameras as he entered his hotel.<\/p>\n

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Luxembourg’s former Grand Duke, Henri, and Princess Alexia\u00a0of Greece and her husband Carlos Morales Quintana were also seen disembarking a bus on Tuesday at the same hotel as Felipe. Meanwhile, Japan’s Crown Prince Akishino\u00a0and Crown Princess Kiko arrived at the hotel in a Mercedes-Benz sedan.<\/p>\n

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King Felipe of Spain pictured arriving at the Grand Hotel in Oslo on September 8, 2026 (@ Javad Parsa \/ NTB)<\/p>\n

According to TV 2<\/a>, several royals took a bus together to the Palace on Tuesday, including Felipe, Letizia, Henri, the Serbian Crown Prince Couple,\u00a0Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Princess Alexia and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.<\/p>\n

While the outlet noted that it’s not yet known why the royals are at the palace tonight, TV 2’s royal expert Ole-J\u00f8rgen Schulsrud-Hansen pointed out that it’s not unusual for a reception to be held for royal guests the day before a funeral. King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted a reception for heads of state and official overseas guests at Buckingham Palace the day before Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Former Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg at the Grand Hotel in Oslo on the eve of King Harald’s funeral (@ Stian Lysberg Solum \/ NTB)<\/p>\n

The Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, Princess Beatrix\u00a0and Princess Catharina-Amalia, as well as Prince William, Princess Anne, Denmark’s King Frederik, Queen Mary, Crown Prince Christian, Princess Benedikte, and Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria,\u00a0Prince Carl Philip, Princess Sofia, Princess Madeleineand Princess Christina\u00a0will be among the guests at Wednesday’s funeral service.<\/p>\n

The state funeral is taking place at Oslo Cathedral on September 9. The late King’s coffin will leave the palace at noon and be carried in a procession to the cathedral, where the service will begin at 1 p.m. local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Following the funeral, Harald’s coffin will be carried in procession to the Palace Chapel at Akershus Fortress. There, family will be joined by members of other royal families for a private ceremony, before Harald’s coffin is lowered into the chapel’s crypt, where the sarcophagi of King Haakon, Queen Maud, King Olav and Crown Princess M\u00e4rtha are also located.<\/p>\n

After returning to the palace, Norway’s new King Haakon and Queen Mette-Marit will host a reception, with visiting royals in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European royals have touched down in the Norwegian capital ahead of King Harald V of Norway’s funeral service.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[2113,76079,39956,35541,45379,157,156,76081,76082,74881,76080],"class_list":["post-162562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-european-royals","tag-funeral-service","tag-king-carl-xvi-gustaf","tag-king-felipe","tag-king-harald-v","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-princess-alexia-of-greece","tag-princess-kiko","tag-queen-letizia","tag-state-funeral"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117238176737718899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162562","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=162562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}