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Wedding of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, and Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby

2001 Norwegian royal wedding

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Source revisionSep 26, 2026
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The wedding of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby took place on 25 August 2001 at Oslo Cathedral. It was the first royal wedding to take place in Norway since the marriage of then-Crown Prince Harald to Sonja Haraldsen in 1968. Because of the background of the bride, the wedding was frequently referred to in publications as "unconventional" and "uncommon". Mette-Marit was described as a modern-day Cinderella.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wedding, Haakon and Crown can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wedding of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, and Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.