haemolytic anaemia<\/a>, which causes fatigue and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n\u201cAs king, my father represented Norway and the Norwegian people with pride and joy, through visits around the country, at events here at the royal palace, and while working on Norway\u2019s behalf around the world,\u201d Haakon said.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the royal palace in Oslo to pay their respects. Haakon thanked the public, saying it had been \u201ca powerful and moving experience to see the Palace Square filled with people, flowers, messages of condolence, and candles.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government has declared a national mourning period, which will last until after the funeral. A date has not yet been announced, but the Church of Norway will hold memorial services across the country on Sunday. In churches and city halls around Norway, people came to write in condolence books and light candles.<\/p>\n
In his speech, Haakon said he and his wife, Queen Mette-Marit, and his daughter, Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra, would be present and listening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe in our popular government \u2013 and in democracy. We believe in a society built on law and justice \u2013 and where everyone is of equal value,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Haakon is due to take an oath to defend Norway\u2019s constitution and laws before the legislature on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He becomes king in the wake of controversy surrounding his wife\u2019s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\u00a0Haakon\u2019s stepson, Marius Borg Hoiby<\/a>, was also found guilty of rape, domestic violence other charges and sentenced to four years in prison in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Haakon VIII says King Harald represented Norway with \u2018pride and joy\u2019, promises to listen to Norwegians as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[299,1234,12,1115,285,26],"class_list":["post-1176559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-politics","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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