Princess Anne<\/a>, at the service for the late Norwegian king at Oslo Cathedral on Wednesday (09.09.26), following the monarch’s death at the age of 89 on 28 August.<\/p>\nWilliam’s attendance is in keeping with the precedent that the sovereign does not attend funerals of other heads of state, while the Princess Royal will attend in a personal capacity because she is godmother of the new King Haakon.<\/p>\n
The prince will make the trip to Norway in a day, between other planned public engagements and his eldest son, 13-year-old Prince George, starting at Eton College.<\/p>\n
Following Harald’s death, Charles sent his “deepest and most heartfelt condolences” to the Norwegian royal family following the death of his “dear cousin”.<\/p>\n
\nIn a statement on behalf of himself and wife Queen Camilla, he said: \u201cIt is with the most profound sadness that my wife and I have learned of the death of my dear cousin, King Harald V of Norway.<\/p>\n
\n“For thirty-five years, King Harald served his people with unwavering dedication, guiding Norway through times of great change with warmth and humility.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAs Norway mourns the loss of so towering a figure, my whole family join in remembering a much-loved kinsman and friend whose kindness, compassion and deep sense of duty echoed from across the sea and across the decades.<\/p>\n
\n“The United Kingdom and Norway share particularly close historical and family ties, with Britain one of the first countries to recognise Norwegian independence and establish diplomatic relations in 1905.<\/p>\n
\n“These special bonds were even further strengthened during the dreadful trials of the Second World War and helped to bind our two countries together.<\/p>\n
\n“The Queen and I extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Queen Sonja and all her family, as Britain shares in Norway\u2019s grief at this time of such heartbreaking loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nCharles and Harald were second cousins, sharing the same great-grandparents in King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.<\/p>\n
\nIn April last year, William represented his father at Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican.<\/p>\n
\nThe 44-year-old royal and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, previously dined with Harald and his wife Queen Sonja at the Royal Palace during an official tour of Norway in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 September 2026 Prince William will represent King Charles at the funeral of King Harald. Prince William will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1760,71605,320071,532,5118,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":["post-1189172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-king-charles","tag-king-haakon","tag-king-harald","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-anne","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189172","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=1189172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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