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| Full Name | Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway |
|---|---|
| Birthdate | August 19, 1973 |
| Birth Place | Kristiansand, Norway |
| Age (in 2025) | 52 Years Old |
| Zodiac | Leo |
| Occupation | Princess |
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway is best known as Princess who has born on August 19, 1973 in Kristiansand, Norway. Currently, Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway is 52 years, 2 months and 19 days old. Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway will celebrate 53rd birthday on Wednesday, 19th of August 2026. Below the countdown to Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway upcoming birthday.
Crown Princess of Norway, heir apparent to the Norwegian throne, and wife of Crown Prince Haakon.
A commoner and a single mother, she met Prince Haakon at Quart Festival. The two would meet again a year later at another Quart Festival event.
Since her marriage, she has earned a master's degree in executive management and worked as a representative for UNAIDS. She has also presided over countless humanitarian organizations.
Her father, Sven Hoiby, was a journalist. She has a son named Marius from a previous relationship. She and Prince Haakon have two children, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus.
Her father-in-law is Harald V of Norway. Like her own, Harald's marriage to Queen Sonja was also controversial due to the fact that she too was a commoner.
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway is 52 years old today.
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway was born on August 19, 1973 in Kristiansand, Norway.
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway zodiac sign is Leo.
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway was best known as Princess.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. |
| 1989 | Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. |
| 1989 | Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| 1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. |
| 1991 | Crown Heights riot begins. |
| 1999 | In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. |
| 2002 | Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
| 2003 | A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. |
| 2003 | Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children. |
| 2004 | Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq. |
| 2005 | The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. |
| 2009 | A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. |
| 2010 | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
| 2013 | The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. |
| 2017 | Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. |
| 1986 | The birth of Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer |
| 1986 | The birth of Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player |
| 1986 | The birth of Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter |
| 1987 | The birth of Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer |
| 1987 | The birth of Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver |
| 1988 | The birth of Veronica Roth, American author |
| 1989 | The birth of Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor |
| 1990 | The birth of Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer |
| 1991 | The birth of Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer |
| 1994 | The birth of Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete |
| 1994 | The birth of Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist |
| 1996 | The birth of Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress |
| 1996 | The birth of Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player |
| 1999 | The birth of Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player |
| 2001 | The birth of Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player |
| 2012 | The death of Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932) |
| 2013 | The death of Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923) |
| 2013 | The death of Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927) |
| 2013 | The death of Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926) |
| 2013 | The death of Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) |
| 2014 | The death of Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939) |
| 2014 | The death of Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927) |
| 2014 | The death of James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1973) |
| 2014 | The death of Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942) |
| 2015 | The death of George Houser, American minister and activist (b. 1916) |
| 2015 | The death of Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (b. 1935) |
| 2016 | The death of Jack Riley, American actor and voice artist (b. 1935) |
| 2017 | The death of Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932) |
| 2019 | The death of Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948) |
| 2021 | The death of Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (b. 1939) |
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