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49-435: The Nobel Peace Center was opened in 2005 by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway in a ceremony attended by the royal families of Norway and Canada. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai was also present. The Center welcomes app 250.000 visitors per year and is one of Norway's most visited museums. The Nobel Peace Center is located in the former Oslo Vestbanestasjon (Oslo West railway station) building. Dating from 1872,

98-491: A reigning state ruler of Malaysia . He was discharged on 3 March and was transported back to Norway on a medical evacuation flight to continue his recovery in a hospital, during which he would be on sick leave for two weeks. He received a permanent pacemaker on 12 March. Two days later, he was discharged but remained on sick leave. He resumed his duties on 22 April, with the royal household saying that his official activities would be reduced in light of his condition. The King

147-608: A broad educational program and regular guided tours. The Nobel Peace Center is a foundation and part of a network of Nobel institutions represented externally by the Nobel Foundation , which also administers informational activities and arrangements surrounding the presentation of the Nobel Prize. Kjersti Fløgstad is director of the Nobel Peace Center. Olav Njølstad is chairman of the center's board, which

196-575: A few occasions: from December 2003 to mid-April 2004 due to urinary bladder cancer , from April to early June 2005 due to aortic stenosis , and in 2020 due to cardiac surgery (replacement of a heart valve ). Crown Prince Haakon served as the country's regent on these occasions, including giving the King's Speech at the State opening of parliament in 2020. When the King and Queen turned 80 years old in 2017,

245-675: A picture of the King (then Prince) playing with FDR's dog, Fala , on the North Lawn of the White House in 1944. Harald visited Norwegian servicemen training in the United States. The prince also made visits outside America, travelling north to visit Norwegian personnel at the training base " Little Norway " in Ontario, Canada. He attended The White Hall Country School from 1943. Prince Harald returned to Norway with his family at

294-476: A respiratory infection. On 27 February, while on holiday in Malaysia , he was again hospitalized on the resort island of Langkawi ; he was admitted to the royal suites of Sultanah Maliha Hospital, a government hospital and the only major hospital on the island, and had a temporary pacemaker implanted due to a low heart rate. During his hospitalization, he was accorded protection and security similar to that of

343-858: Is a four-star general , an admiral , and formally the Supreme Commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces . The infantry battalion His Majesty the King's Guard are considered the King's and the Royal Family's bodyguards. They guard the Royal residences, including the Royal Palace , the Crown Prince Residence at Skaugum , and the Royal Mausoleum at Akershus Castle . The King is Grand Master of

392-546: Is appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee . 59°54′41.34″N 10°43′49.73″E  /  59.9114833°N 10.7304806°E  / 59.9114833; 10.7304806 Harald V of Norway Harald V ( Norwegian : Harald den femte , Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɑ̂rːɑɫ dɛn ˈfɛ̂mtə] ; born 21 February 1937) is the King of Norway . A member of the House of Glücksburg , Harald

441-484: Is impossible for a King to keep a government in office against the will of Parliament . By convention, the King appoints the leader of the parliamentary bloc with the majority as prime minister. When the parliamentary situation is unclear, the King relies on the advice of the President of Parliament and the sitting prime minister. Unlike most constitutional monarchs, Harald does not have the power to dissolve Parliament;

490-686: Is in accordance not only with provisions of the Constitution, but with conventions established since the definitive establishment of parliamentary rule in Norway in 1884. His acts are not valid without the countersignature of a member of the Council of State (cabinet)–usually the Prime Minister –and proceedings of the Council of State are signed by all of its members. Although he nominally has

539-618: Is usually not given a number in the Norwegian list of kings , therefore Harald is 'only' numbered as Harald V . King Harald made the decision to use his grandfather's royal motto, " Alt for Norge ". The King also chose to continue the tradition of royal benediction , a tradition that had been introduced with his father , and was consecrated together with Queen Sonja in the Nidaros Cathedral on 23 June 1991. The reign of King Harald has been marked by modernization and reform for

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588-712: The 1964 , 1968 , and 1972 Olympic Games , and later became patron of World Sailing . Harald was born at the Skaugum estate during the reign of his grandfather King Haakon VII and was baptised in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace in Oslo on 31 March 1937 by Bishop Johan Lunde. His godparents were: his paternal grandparents King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway ; his maternal grandparents Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg of Sweden ; his maternal uncle King Leopold III of Belgium ; Queen Mary and King George VI of

637-803: The British Army , Harald V was appointed an honorary general in 1994, and he was the final Colonel-in-Chief of the Green Howards . He is also an honorary Colonel in the British Royal Marines . He is patron of the Anglo-Norse Society in London , formerly together with Queen Elizabeth II , his second cousin. Harald is in the line of succession to the British throne , because of his descent from King Edward VII of

686-475: The Bygdøy Royal Estate , the Royal Palace , the royal stables and Oscarshall have also taken place. The latter three have also been opened to the public and tourists. Together with Queen Sonja, the king has also for decades attempted to establish a palace museum in Oslo . While the Constitution vests the King with executive power, he is not politically responsible for exercising it. This

735-477: The COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020 to March 2022), have been met with both national and international acclaim. In 2015, he became the world's first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica , specifically the Norwegian dependency Queen Maud Land . In 2016, King Harald V competed with a team for the sailing World Championships on Lake Ontario , Toronto . The king came second in the classic fleet category. He

784-645: The Norwegian Royal family . The King has cooperated closely with Queen Sonja and the Crown Prince in making the royal household more open to the Norwegian public and the Norwegian media . King Harald's decision to accept two more commoners into the royal family, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Ari Behn , has been interpreted as a sign of modernization and adjustment. Under King Harald and Queen Sonja's leadership, comprehensive renovation projects on

833-747: The University of Oslo , the Norwegian Military Academy , and Balliol College, Oxford . Following the death of his grandfather King Haakon VII in 1957, Harald became crown prince as his father became king. Harald became king following his father's death in 1991. He married Sonja Haraldsen in 1968, their relationship having initially been controversial due to her status as a commoner . They have two children, their elder child Märtha Louise and their younger child Haakon , who became heir apparent due to male-preference primogeniture . A keen sportsman, he represented Norway in sailing at

882-672: The University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1985, Waseda University in Japan in 2001, and Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, in 2015. He is also an honorary fellow at Balliol College, Oxford . Skaugum Skaugum is an estate, manor house and the official residence of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and his wife Crown Princess Mette-Marit . The estate is located in Asker , 19 km (12 mi) southwest of Oslo , by

931-701: The American designer David Small developed its hi-tech installations. The Nobel Peace Center is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, private sponsors and admission fees. Temporary exhibitions are fully sponsored. The Center presents the Nobel Peace Prize laureates and their work, in addition to telling the story of Alfred Nobel and the other Nobel prizes. This is done using multimedia and interactive technology, exhibitions, meetings, debates, theater, concerts and conferences, as well as

980-617: The Constitution does not allow snap elections. The King meets with the Council of State at the Royal Palace every Friday. He also has weekly meetings with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs . He receives foreign envoys, and formally opens parliament every October delivering a speech from the throne during each opening. He travels extensively throughout Norway and makes official state visits to other countries, as well as receiving and hosting guests. Until 2012,

1029-465: The Crown Princess was to make her way to Sweden with the three children. The latter party reached Sweden on the night of 10 April, but although Crown Princess Märtha was Swedish-born, they encountered problems at the border station. According to Princess Astrid and others who were present, they were admitted only after the driver threatened to ram the border gate. Another account does not describe

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1078-647: The King decided to open the former royal stables to the public as a gift to his wife, the Queen. The new venue was named The Queen Sonja Art Stable and is the first institution owned by the royal family which is permanently open to the public. King Harald was made Name of the Year by the newspaper VG in 2017. On 17 January 2021, King Harald celebrated 30 years on the Norwegian throne. On 11 September 2022, he visited Denmark to celebrate Margrethe II's Golden Jubilee . Harald

1127-569: The King of Norway was, according to the constitution, the formal head of the Church of Norway . The constitutional amendment of 21 May 2012 made the King no longer the formal head, but he is still required to be of the Evangelical Lutheran religion. On 8 May 2018, the King's constitutional status as holy was dissolved, while leaving his sovereign immunity intact. In 1994, both the King and Crown Prince Haakon played roles during

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1225-587: The United Kingdom ; and Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark . His parents already had two daughters, Princess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid . At the time of Harald's birth, he was second in line of succession to the Norwegian throne following his father, Crown Prince Olav . In 1940 the entire royal family had to flee Oslo because of the German invasion . It was deemed safer for the family to split up. The King and Crown Prince Olav would remain in Norway and

1274-848: The United Kingdom. He is a Stranger Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter , an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order , and a Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain , as well as numerous other orders of chivalry. The mark ° shows honours mentioned on his official website page about decorations Harald V received an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 2006 (as did his father, King Olav, in 1937, and his grandfather, King Haakon, in 1943). The King also received honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland in 1994,

1323-901: The United States in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the American Scandinavian Foundation . An avid sailor, Harald represented Norway in the yachting events of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 , Mexico City in 1968 , and Munich in 1972 . The Crown Prince carried the Norwegian flag at the opening parade of the 1964 Summer Olympics . Harald is an honorary president of the International Soling Association . Harald married Sonja Haraldsen at Oslo Domkirke in Oslo on 29 August 1968. The pair had dated for nine years, but Olav

1372-554: The United States. On 17 August the Crown Princess and her children left for the United States from Petsamo , Finland, aboard the United States Army transport ship American Legion . Harald, his mother, and his sisters lived in Washington, D.C. and Scottsdale Arizona during the war, while his father, Crown Prince Olav, and his grandfather, King Haakon, stayed in London with the Norwegian government-in-exile. One of

1421-486: The autumn of that year, Harald began studies at the University of Oslo . He later attended the Cavalry Officers' Candidate School at Trandum , followed by enrollment at the Norwegian Military Academy , from which he graduated in 1959. On 21 September 1957 at the death of his grandfather, Harald became crown prince at the age of 20 and he attended the Council of State for the first time six days later and took

1470-426: The death of his father on 17 January 1991, Harald succeeded to the Norwegian throne. He became the first Norwegian-born monarch since Olav IV died in 1387, a gap of 604 years. Harald is the sixth King of Norway to bear that name, and the first in 855 years. The five other kings who have borne the name are Harald Fairhair , Harald Greycloak , Harald Bluetooth , Harald Hardrada , and Harald Gille . Harald Bluetooth

1519-483: The disease in March 2022. Since the death of Elizabeth II in 2022, Harald is Europe's oldest hereditary reigning monarch, at the age of 87. Since 9 September 2024 he is the oldest monarch in over 1,150 years of Norwegian monarchy, living longer than his father Olav V , who died at the age of 87 years and 199 days. On 31 January 2024, the royal palace announced that King Harald was on "sick leave" until 2 February due to

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1568-722: The escape so dramatically. However, when the King and Crown Prince inquired of Swedish foreign minister Christian Günther whether they could sleep one night in Sweden without being interned, their request was refused. Harald spent the following days in Sälen before moving to Prince Carl Bernadotte 's home in Frötuna on 16 April. On 26 April the group moved to Drottningholm in Stockholm . King Gustaf V has been accounted to have had an amicable relationship with his Norwegian guests, but

1617-687: The estate as a wedding gift to his son, Crown Prince Haakon , and his wife, Crown Princess Mette-Marit when the couple married in 2001 . Unlike the Royal Palace and Oscarshall , Skaugum is owned privately by the royal family and is therefore not open to the public. Like all royal residences in Norway, the estate is protected by the Royal Guards. In 2024, Skaugum became known for the Høiby affair involving accused sex offender Marius Borg Høiby , who invited criminal friends, including members of

1666-468: The foot of the mountain Skaugumsåsen . The estate consists of 48 ha (120 acres) of agricultural lands and 50 ha (120 acres) of woodlands. Skaugum is also known for the Høiby affair involving Marius Borg Høiby , who organized parties at the property with criminal friends that he called "Skaugum festivals," where drugs were consumed and where Høiby is charged with raping women. The estate

1715-582: The former station building was drawn by architect Georg Andreas Bull (1829–1917). It ceased to be used as a railway station in 1989. It is overlooking the harbor and located close to the Oslo City Hall where the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place every 10 December, to commemorate Alfred Nobel's death. British architect David Adjaye is responsible for the center's creative design, including its color schemes;

1764-624: The games. With his sailing crew he won World Championship bronze, silver and gold medals, in 1988, 1982 and 1987, respectively. In July 2005, the King and his crew aboard the royal sailboat Fram XV won the gold medal at the European Championships in Sweden. In the 2007 World Championship the King came in sixth place. King Harald's leadership during Norwegian national crises, such as the New Year's Day Storm (1992), July 2011 massacre , 2020 Gjerdrum landslide , and particularly

1813-617: The ground in 1930. The Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg was commissioned to design a new structure, entirely on the foundations of the old building. The new building was also built of stone to avoid future fires. During the Nazi occupation of Norway , SS-General Wilhelm Rediess resided at Skaugum for a short period; Reichskommissar Josef Terboven made the estate his official residence in June 1940. Shortly after Hitler's death, Terboven

1862-649: The notable events he remembers from that time is standing behind Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was sworn in for his fourth term on the South Portico of the White House in 1945. Such childhood experiences are reflected in a trace of an American accent when he speaks English. The Doris Kearns Goodwin book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Home Front in World War II contains

1911-479: The oath to the Constitution of Norway on 21 February 1958. In the same year, he also served as regent in the King's absence for the first time. In 1960, Harald entered Balliol College, Oxford where he studied history, economics and politics. He was a keen rower during his student days at Oxford and was taught to row by fellow student and friend Nick Bevan , later a leading British school rowing coach. In 1960, he also made his first official journey abroad, visiting

1960-550: The opening ceremony of the Lillehammer Olympics . The King opened the games, while the Crown Prince lit the cauldron , paying tribute to both the King and his grandfather as Olympians. The King has also represented Norway at opening ceremonies of Olympic Games, among them Torino and Beijing . However, he was not present in Vancouver ; the Crown Prince attended instead, with the King and Queen attending later in

2009-469: The power of veto, no Norwegian king has exercised it since the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905. Even then, the King's veto power is suspensive, not absolute as is the case with British monarchs. A royal veto can be overridden if the Storting passes the same bill following a general election. While the Constitution nominally vests the King with the power to appoint the government, in practice it

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2058-483: The topic of the war in Norway was not to be raised. However, influential Swedish politicians, including Minister of Justice Westman , wanted the Crown Princess and Prince Harald to be sent back to Norway so he could be proclaimed King by the Germans. After the King and Crown Prince had to leave Norway on 7 June they felt Sweden might not be the best place for the rest of the family, and started planning for them to go to

2107-692: The war's end in 1945. In the autumn of 1945 he was enrolled in third grade of Smestad skole as the first member of the royal family to attend a public (state) school. His Confirmation took place on 10 May 1953 at the Chapel of Akershus Castle . Amidst this when he was only 17 years old in 1954, his mother died of cancer. The Crown Princess's death was a tremendous loss for him and his family as well as for Norway, and he named his daughter Märtha to honour her memory. Four years later in 1958 he would lose his maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark . In 1955 he graduated from Oslo katedralskole and in

2156-424: Was dismissed from his position by Karl Dönitz and committed suicide in the manor bunker on 8 May 1945 by blowing himself up with fifty kilograms of dynamite. In 1968, King Olav V gave the estate as a wedding gift to his son Crown Prince Harald (later King Harald V ) and his wife Crown Princess Sonja , while the King himself relocated to the Royal Palace in Oslo . King Harald would repeat this gesture, giving

2205-450: Was dubbed "Sailor-King" by Canada's National Post as he slept on board his yacht Sira . In 2016 Harald, in a speech marking 25 years on the throne, sought to unify Norwegians coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as "girls who love girls, boys who love boys and girls and boys who love each other." Since the start of the twenty-first century, King Harald has been unable to perform his duties as sovereign due to ill health on

2254-423: Was hospitalized in August 2022 with a fever, being again admitted to hospital that December for an infection. He was also hospitalized for an infection once again in May 2023 just before Constitution Day . On 15 September 2023 he also attended the celebrations of Carl XVI Gustaf's Golden Jubilee in Stockholm , Sweden . In October 2023, Harald tested positive for coronavirus , having previously tested positive for

2303-417: Was originally Church property during the Middle Ages, and passed through several owners until 1909, when Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg bought it. When Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha were married in 1929, Wedel-Jarlsberg sold it to the couple. In 1937, Prince Harald was born on the estate. Wedel-Jarlsberg's Swiss chalet style -residence, designed by Herman Backer and completed in 1891, burned to

2352-413: Was reluctant to allow his son to marry a commoner . Olav only relented when Harald told his father that if he was not allowed to marry Sonja he would not marry at all. This would have ended the reign of his family and the Norwegian monarchy, as Harald was the sole heir to the throne. The couple had two children, Princess Märtha Louise and Crown Prince Haakon , heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. On

2401-421: Was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden . He was second in the line of succession at the time of his birth, behind his father. In 1940, as a result of the German occupation during World War II, the royal family went into exile. Harald spent part of his childhood in Sweden and the United States. He returned to Norway in 1945, and subsequently studied for periods at

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