In her early days with Crown Prince Haakon, Mette-Marit was followed by journalists and photographers. She still carries the discomfort with her to this day, she told a radio station.
Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit felt persecuted by the media during her early days with Crown Prince Haakon, according to a new book. She still carries the unease from that time within her, which is why she rarely speaks about it, Mette-Marit (50) was quoted by radio station NRK and other Norwegian media from a new biography about Haakon (50).
From the time her relationship with Haakon became known until her wedding, she felt “hunted”. The most vulnerable part of her life was discussed in public at the time – she still doesn’t understand how something like that could have happened in Norway.
The biography is called “Haakon – historier om en tronarving” (Haakon – story about an heir to the throne). NRK literary critic Jonas Hansen Meyer described the book, which lists Haakon himself and journalist Kjetil Østli as authors, as entertaining but also thoughtful. It leaves the clear impression that Norway is in good hands with its future king, he wrote.
Haakon and the then middle-class Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby met shortly before the turn of the millennium before getting engaged at the end of 2000 and marrying in the summer of 2001. In their early days they were closely followed by journalists and photographers. Much has been reported about Mette-Marit as a single mother of a small son and her past with excessive parties and drugs. “We felt besieged and surrounded,” Haakon states in his biography, according to the NTB news agency.
The couple will be visiting Germany next week: Haakon will first travel to Munich and Hamburg before Mette-Marit joins her husband and his delegation in Berlin.
Source: Stern
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